what-does-a-chimp-say

A single-panel comic. On the left, a woman with long dark hair and round glasses leans in toward a small child, asking cheerfully, "And what does a chimp say?" The child, scowling with a deeply unimpressed expression, deadpans, "Chimps are incapable of language." A caption beneath reads: "Nobody liked baby Noam Chomsky." The joke casts the famous linguist as a humorless, pedantic toddler who refuses to play along with simple animal-sound games. Votey (aftercomic): a loose sketch of the same annoyed child's face declaring, "I'm gonna go sleep furiously!" — a riff on Chomsky's famous nonsense-but-grammatical sentence, "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."