public-speaking
Original: public-speaking on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (top, header): PUBLIC SPEAKING TIP
Start off by wowing your audience with some big numbers.
A man with dark hair gives two thumbs up while speaking to the audience.
Man: First, I want you to imagine a cube sitting on the surface of the Earth. Picture the cube is 14,000 meters on each side. Nearly 3 trillion cubic meters! It's not relevant to this talk on agriculture pest management, but, wow, that's a really big cube.
Votey:
Text only: TEN POINTS TO WHOEVER DOES THIS FIRST.
Start off by wowing your audience with some big numbers.
A man with dark hair gives two thumbs up while speaking to the audience.
Man: First, I want you to imagine a cube sitting on the surface of the Earth. Picture the cube is 14,000 meters on each side. Nearly 3 trillion cubic meters! It's not relevant to this talk on agriculture pest management, but, wow, that's a really big cube.
Votey:
Text only: TEN POINTS TO WHOEVER DOES THIS FIRST.
Alt text
Single-panel SMBC comic. A header reads "PUBLIC SPEAKING TIP: Start off by wowing your audience with some big numbers." Below, a dark-haired man stands giving an enthusiastic double thumbs-up to an unseen audience. He says: "First, I want you to imagine a cube sitting on the surface of the Earth. Picture the cube is 14,000 meters on each side. Nearly 3 trillion cubic meters! It's not relevant to this talk on agriculture pest management, but, wow, that's a really big cube." The joke is that the speaker opens with an impressively huge but completely irrelevant statistic. Votey (aftercomic): plain handwritten text on a blank panel reading "TEN POINTS TO WHOEVER DOES THIS FIRST."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.