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good-2

Original: good-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:

Two people lie in bed together under blue covers, after sex.

Person lying down (a man with a mustache): Be honest - was it good for you?

Person sitting up (a woman with curly hair): Well, to be clear, I don't take a prescriptivist approach to sex.

Caption below panel: That linguistics degree just keeps coming in handy.

Votey:

A roughly drawn cartoon face leans in from the right side.

The face (speech, in a thought-bubble-like tail pointing off to the upper left): Is anything truly knowable?

Alt text

An SMBC comic. In a single panel, two people lie in bed together under blue covers in a dim bedroom, evidently after sex. A mustached man lying down asks, "Be honest - was it good for you?" A curly-haired woman sitting up replies, "Well, to be clear, I don't take a prescriptivist approach to sex." A caption below reads: "That linguistics degree just keeps coming in handy." The joke turns 'prescriptivist,' a linguistics term for judging language by strict rules, into a way of dodging the question. Votey: a crudely drawn cartoon face leans in and says, "Is anything truly knowable?"

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.