their
Original: their on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman in red blazer: Welcome to our office!
Panel 2:
Man (visitor): I'm busy! You have precisely four minutes to convince me to fund you.
Panel 3:
Woman: And that makes money, how?
(The setup continues across panels as she pitches.)
Woman: We continue existing until grammar obsessives pay us to stop.
Panel 4:
Woman: Our startup is called 'their' by having a company called 'their' so we make 'their' a grammatically acceptable term.
Panel 5:
Woman: And once they pay you, you just change your name to something equally annoying.
Man: Precisely.
Panel 6:
Man (grinning, gesturing to a sign reading 'their'): How could this be yours?
Votey:
(No dialogue.) A wordless scene: a group of people — including small children — stand crowded together in a line, waiting, beside a tall reception desk or counter.
Woman in red blazer: Welcome to our office!
Panel 2:
Man (visitor): I'm busy! You have precisely four minutes to convince me to fund you.
Panel 3:
Woman: And that makes money, how?
(The setup continues across panels as she pitches.)
Woman: We continue existing until grammar obsessives pay us to stop.
Panel 4:
Woman: Our startup is called 'their' by having a company called 'their' so we make 'their' a grammatically acceptable term.
Panel 5:
Woman: And once they pay you, you just change your name to something equally annoying.
Man: Precisely.
Panel 6:
Man (grinning, gesturing to a sign reading 'their'): How could this be yours?
Votey:
(No dialogue.) A wordless scene: a group of people — including small children — stand crowded together in a line, waiting, beside a tall reception desk or counter.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A woman in a red blazer greets a busy investor, who gives her four minutes to convince him to fund her. She pitches a startup literally named 'their': the plan is to be so annoying that grammar obsessives pay the company to stop existing, then the founders just rename to something equally irritating and repeat the shakedown. The investor agrees this is precisely the idea, grinning beside a sign reading 'their'. Votey: a wordless drawing of a small crowd of people, including young children, clustered in a line waiting beside a tall counter.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.