flour
Original: flour on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A dark-haired man in a dark blazer speaks excitedly to a man with flame-like orange hair wearing an orange shirt.
Dark-haired man: "IT'S GENIUS! WE START A FLOUR MILLING COMPANY THAT MAXIMIZES UTILITY!"
Orange-haired man: "IT'S NOT EVEN AN IDEA! IT'S A NAME!"
Below the two men is a bag of flour. The label on the bag reads: "John Stuart Mills" (with a small pastoral landscape illustration beneath the text).
Votey:
A hand-drawn copyright symbol — a capital letter "C" enclosed in a circle.
A dark-haired man in a dark blazer speaks excitedly to a man with flame-like orange hair wearing an orange shirt.
Dark-haired man: "IT'S GENIUS! WE START A FLOUR MILLING COMPANY THAT MAXIMIZES UTILITY!"
Orange-haired man: "IT'S NOT EVEN AN IDEA! IT'S A NAME!"
Below the two men is a bag of flour. The label on the bag reads: "John Stuart Mills" (with a small pastoral landscape illustration beneath the text).
Votey:
A hand-drawn copyright symbol — a capital letter "C" enclosed in a circle.
Alt text
A dark-haired man in a dark blazer enthusiastically pitches an idea to a man with flame-like orange hair in an orange shirt. He says, "It's genius! We start a flour milling company that maximizes utility!" The orange-haired man retorts, "It's not even an idea! It's a name!" Below them sits a bag of flour labeled "John Stuart Mills" — a pun on philosopher John Stuart Mill, the utilitarian, combined with "mills" as in flour mills. The joke is that the entire business plan is just a name-based pun on maximizing utility. Votey: a hand-drawn copyright symbol, a capital "C" inside a circle.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.