short-2
Original: short-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A younger man with dark hair, pointing, speaking to an older bearded man with gray hair:
"Yeah? You're gonna give up fried foods and soda for a month, are you? Because last time you said that I made 30 grand short-selling."
Caption (below panel, narration by the older man):
"Creating a betting market for my life was a mistake."
Votey:
A simple drawn face below a block of text.
Text: "I'm plowing a lot of my profits into 'Girlfriend takes proposal of marriage as opportunity to break up.'"
A younger man with dark hair, pointing, speaking to an older bearded man with gray hair:
"Yeah? You're gonna give up fried foods and soda for a month, are you? Because last time you said that I made 30 grand short-selling."
Caption (below panel, narration by the older man):
"Creating a betting market for my life was a mistake."
Votey:
A simple drawn face below a block of text.
Text: "I'm plowing a lot of my profits into 'Girlfriend takes proposal of marriage as opportunity to break up.'"
Alt text
A two-panel-style SMBC comic about a man whose personal habits have become a financial betting market. In the main panel, a younger man with dark hair points accusingly at an older man with a long gray beard and says: "Yeah? You're gonna give up fried foods and soda for a month, are you? Because last time you said that I made 30 grand short-selling." A caption beneath the panel, narrated by the older man, reads: "Creating a betting market for my life was a mistake." The joke is that people are now profiting by betting against the man's resolutions. In the votey (a small bonus panel with a crudely drawn face), the same conceit escalates: "I'm plowing a lot of my profits into 'Girlfriend takes proposal of marriage as opportunity to break up.'"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.