dust-in-the-wind
Original: dust-in-the-wind on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with long hair: The oldest recorded joke is from Sumeria, circa 1900 BC.
Woman with dark curly hair: Something which has never occurred since, then. A young woman doesn't fart in her husband's lap.
Panel 2:
Woman with long hair: It's not great.
Woman with dark curly hair: That's the thing?
Panel 3:
Woman with long hair: Empires have risen and fallen. Villains have lived and died. Wars have been forgotten. Even the man who wrote it down was long forgotten. But that fart joke lives on.
Panel 4:
Woman with long hair: There's a beauty to it. We'll live on in history, not as achiever of greatness or big in humanity. But the destiny of that fart joke is certain. As long as humanity persists, so will it.
Woman with dark curly hair: Most of the things most people do will never amount to as much as a mediocre Sumerian fart joke.
Panel 5:
Woman with dark curly hair: I think you're being melodramatic.
Woman with long hair: We are dust. Dust in the gnelly wind.
Votey:
Caption (above a sketched woman's head): We must destroy all jokes
Woman with long hair: The oldest recorded joke is from Sumeria, circa 1900 BC.
Woman with dark curly hair: Something which has never occurred since, then. A young woman doesn't fart in her husband's lap.
Panel 2:
Woman with long hair: It's not great.
Woman with dark curly hair: That's the thing?
Panel 3:
Woman with long hair: Empires have risen and fallen. Villains have lived and died. Wars have been forgotten. Even the man who wrote it down was long forgotten. But that fart joke lives on.
Panel 4:
Woman with long hair: There's a beauty to it. We'll live on in history, not as achiever of greatness or big in humanity. But the destiny of that fart joke is certain. As long as humanity persists, so will it.
Woman with dark curly hair: Most of the things most people do will never amount to as much as a mediocre Sumerian fart joke.
Panel 5:
Woman with dark curly hair: I think you're being melodramatic.
Woman with long hair: We are dust. Dust in the gnelly wind.
Votey:
Caption (above a sketched woman's head): We must destroy all jokes
Alt text
A five-panel comic. Two women sit talking. One woman with long light hair explains to her friend (dark curly hair) that the oldest recorded joke is a Sumerian one from circa 1900 BC about a young woman who doesn't fart in her husband's lap. The friend is unimpressed: 'That's the thing?' The first woman waxes philosophical: empires have risen and fallen, wars and even the joke's author have been forgotten, but the fart joke lives on. She concludes that they themselves won't be remembered for greatness, yet the destiny of that fart joke is certain as long as humanity persists. The friend deadpans that most of what most people do will never amount to as much as a mediocre Sumerian fart joke. When the friend says she's being melodramatic, the first woman intones, 'We are dust. Dust in the gnelly wind.'
Votey: A loose ink sketch of a woman's head with a worried expression and a thought/speech caption above reading 'We must destroy all jokes.'
Votey: A loose ink sketch of a woman's head with a worried expression and a thought/speech caption above reading 'We must destroy all jokes.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.