tattoo
Original: tattoo on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (above panel): Sometimes, I want to get a tattoo of the word "strength" just so I can make this joke over and over.
Panel 1:
A man with brown hair in a red shirt has a tattoo reading "STRENGTH" on his forearm. He is talking to a second man (seen from behind, in the foreground).
Second man: Why'd you get that?
Man with tattoo: In English, it means "strength."
Votey:
The man with the tattoo continues, the second man (foreground) listening.
Man with tattoo: In Japan, it means "strength." In Spanish, it means "strength." In English, it means "strength."
Panel 1:
A man with brown hair in a red shirt has a tattoo reading "STRENGTH" on his forearm. He is talking to a second man (seen from behind, in the foreground).
Second man: Why'd you get that?
Man with tattoo: In English, it means "strength."
Votey:
The man with the tattoo continues, the second man (foreground) listening.
Man with tattoo: In Japan, it means "strength." In Spanish, it means "strength." In English, it means "strength."
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Caption above the main panel reads: "Sometimes, I want to get a tattoo of the word 'strength' just so I can make this joke over and over." In the panel, a brown-haired man in a red shirt has the word "STRENGTH" tattooed on his forearm. A second man, shown from behind, asks, "Why'd you get that?" The tattooed man replies, "In English, it means 'strength.'" The joke flips the cliche of getting a foreign-language tattoo: instead of a foreign word that secretly means something mundane, he tattooed the plain English word and then explains its meaning as if it were exotic. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the tattooed man shows him deadpan continuing: "In Japan, it means 'strength.' In Spanish, it means 'strength.' In English, it means 'strength.'"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.