cosmology
Original: cosmology on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: FUNTIME ACTIVITY: APPLYING COSMOLOGY TO PEOPLE
Panel 1:
A young person with reddish, flame-like hair and large round glasses speaks to an older man (addressed as Frank).
Young person: "According to the Copernican principle, you, Frank, in particular, aren't special."
The older man, Frank, looks downcast and unhappy.
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical (y) axis is labeled "funniness" and the horizontal (x) axis is labeled "commas per word." A straight diagonal arrow rises from the origin to the upper right, showing funniness increasing as commas per word increase.
Panel 1:
A young person with reddish, flame-like hair and large round glasses speaks to an older man (addressed as Frank).
Young person: "According to the Copernican principle, you, Frank, in particular, aren't special."
The older man, Frank, looks downcast and unhappy.
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical (y) axis is labeled "funniness" and the horizontal (x) axis is labeled "commas per word." A straight diagonal arrow rises from the origin to the upper right, showing funniness increasing as commas per word increase.
Alt text
A two-tone blue comic panel under a title banner reading "FUNTIME ACTIVITY: APPLYING COSMOLOGY TO PEOPLE." A young person with reddish flame-like hair and big round glasses tells a glum-looking older man, "According to the Copernican principle, you, Frank, in particular, aren't special." The man, Frank, looks hurt and dejected. The joke applies cosmology's principle of mediocrity (that we occupy no special place in the universe) as a personal insult. Votey: a crude hand-drawn line graph with "funniness" on the vertical axis and "commas per word" on the horizontal axis, with a straight diagonal arrow rising upward, claiming funniness increases with more commas per word, a wink at the heavily comma-laden insult in the main comic.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.