pie-2
Original: pie-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman wearing a party hat: "We're calling it PIE day! It's like Pi Day! But for linguists."
Man wearing a party hat (holding a heart-shaped object): "We don't yet know its traditions, but we can reconstruct them from later holidays!"
Caption below panel:
The only rule of Proto Indo European Day is that each food, drink, or song must be the ancestor of at least two found in different modern holidays.
Votey:
A man's face with a wide grin: "We don't know when it is, so it's potentially every day!"
Woman wearing a party hat: "We're calling it PIE day! It's like Pi Day! But for linguists."
Man wearing a party hat (holding a heart-shaped object): "We don't yet know its traditions, but we can reconstruct them from later holidays!"
Caption below panel:
The only rule of Proto Indo European Day is that each food, drink, or song must be the ancestor of at least two found in different modern holidays.
Votey:
A man's face with a wide grin: "We don't know when it is, so it's potentially every day!"
Alt text
A two-person comic. In the panel, a woman and a man, both wearing party hats, celebrate a made-up holiday. The woman says, "We're calling it PIE day! It's like Pi Day! But for linguists." The man, holding a heart-shaped object, adds, "We don't yet know its traditions, but we can reconstruct them from later holidays!" A caption below reads: "The only rule of Proto Indo European Day is that each food, drink, or song must be the ancestor of at least two found in different modern holidays." The joke plays on PIE being the abbreviation for Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed ancestor language, with traditions "reconstructed" the way linguists reconstruct the ancestral language. Votey (aftercomic): a grinning man's face says, "We don't know when it is, so it's potentially every day!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.