perfect
Original: perfect on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with dark curly hair, in a suit jacket over a sweater, leans toward a woman with brown hair wearing a red top. They stand outdoors against a green background.
Man: "Hey girl, if I told you you had a beautiful body, would you resent me for using the past perfect tense, denoting that the act of possessing a beautiful body was completed prior to this encounter?"
The woman gives an unimpressed, sidelong look.
Caption (below panel): Sadly, I later will have had no sex-having.
Votey:
A simple black-and-white line-drawn face.
Text (speech): "What a pluperfect body."
A man with dark curly hair, in a suit jacket over a sweater, leans toward a woman with brown hair wearing a red top. They stand outdoors against a green background.
Man: "Hey girl, if I told you you had a beautiful body, would you resent me for using the past perfect tense, denoting that the act of possessing a beautiful body was completed prior to this encounter?"
The woman gives an unimpressed, sidelong look.
Caption (below panel): Sadly, I later will have had no sex-having.
Votey:
A simple black-and-white line-drawn face.
Text (speech): "What a pluperfect body."
Alt text
An SMBC comic. In the single panel, a man with dark curly hair in a suit jacket leans toward a woman in a red top, both standing outdoors against a green background. He delivers an overwrought pickup line: "Hey girl, if I told you you had a beautiful body, would you resent me for using the past perfect tense, denoting that the act of possessing a beautiful body was completed prior to this encounter?" The woman shoots him an unimpressed sidelong look. A caption below reads, "Sadly, I later will have had no sex-having." The joke is grammar-nerd flirting failing badly. The red votey button shows a crude black-and-white line-drawn face saying, "What a pluperfect body."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.