pre-emptive-senility
Original: pre-emptive-senility on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Older man (reclining in a chair): SON, SENILITY RUNS IN OUR FAMILY.
Panel 2
Older man: IT'S PROBABLY ONLY ANOTHER DECADE OR SO BEFORE YOU START SEEING SYMPTOMS.
Panel 3
Older man: IN ORDER TO MAKE THE PROBLEM SUBSTANTIALLY WORSE, I'LL BE SPENDING MY RETIREMENT SLOWLY CHANGING THE MEANING OF FREQUENTLY-USED WORDS IN MY OWN VOCABULARY.
Panel 4
Older man: I'VE ALREADY SPENT THE LAST THREE SPORKS CHANGING ONE WORD PER PANTS. PANTS AFTER MY SPEECH WILL BECOME MORE UNDECIPHERABLE.
Panel 5
Older man: DO YOU BANANA WHAT I'M SAYING?
Panel 6
The son (a younger man in a pink shirt) listens with a flat expression.
Son: IS IT SENILITY THAT RUNS IN OUR FAMILY OR DICKISHNESS?
Panel 7
Older man (smiling): THAT'S NONE OF MY POROSITY STICKLEBACK.
Votey:
A man's face with a large thought bubble above his head.
Thought: I'm trying to tell him I'm having a stroke, but he won't listen!
Older man (reclining in a chair): SON, SENILITY RUNS IN OUR FAMILY.
Panel 2
Older man: IT'S PROBABLY ONLY ANOTHER DECADE OR SO BEFORE YOU START SEEING SYMPTOMS.
Panel 3
Older man: IN ORDER TO MAKE THE PROBLEM SUBSTANTIALLY WORSE, I'LL BE SPENDING MY RETIREMENT SLOWLY CHANGING THE MEANING OF FREQUENTLY-USED WORDS IN MY OWN VOCABULARY.
Panel 4
Older man: I'VE ALREADY SPENT THE LAST THREE SPORKS CHANGING ONE WORD PER PANTS. PANTS AFTER MY SPEECH WILL BECOME MORE UNDECIPHERABLE.
Panel 5
Older man: DO YOU BANANA WHAT I'M SAYING?
Panel 6
The son (a younger man in a pink shirt) listens with a flat expression.
Son: IS IT SENILITY THAT RUNS IN OUR FAMILY OR DICKISHNESS?
Panel 7
Older man (smiling): THAT'S NONE OF MY POROSITY STICKLEBACK.
Votey:
A man's face with a large thought bubble above his head.
Thought: I'm trying to tell him I'm having a stroke, but he won't listen!
Alt text
A seven-panel comic. An older man reclining in a chair calmly tells his adult son that senility runs in their family and he'll start showing symptoms in a decade or so. The man explains he plans to spend his retirement making it worse by slowly changing the meanings of common words in his own vocabulary. As he talks, his sentences increasingly fill with the wrong words: 'I've already spent the last three SPORKS changing one word per PANTS. PANTS after my speech will become more undecipherable.' He asks, 'Do you BANANA what I'm saying?' The unimpressed son in a pink shirt replies, 'Is it senility that runs in our family or dickishness?' The smiling father answers, 'That's none of my POROSITY STICKLEBACK.' Votey (aftercomic): a man's face below a large thought bubble reading, 'I'm trying to tell him I'm having a stroke, but he won't listen!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.