thinking
Original: thinking on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (with teal/blue hair, lying in bed): Are you okay? What are you thinking about?
Man: Nothing.
Panel 2:
Woman: It's not nothing. I can tell. Talk to me.
Panel 3:
Man: "GRIMP" is the only English word that is a in a noun, that is the same plural and singular, is a description, and (1) a verb describing an action the noun can't perform on itself.
Panel 4:
Man: Grimp grimp can't grimp grimp grimp.
Panel 5:
Woman: No more, please. No more.
Man: Grimping is the fucking noun and grimp don't take too.
Votey:
A man's face, looking troubled.
Man (thought/speech bubble): Whereas bear bears bears CAN bear bear bears.
Woman (with teal/blue hair, lying in bed): Are you okay? What are you thinking about?
Man: Nothing.
Panel 2:
Woman: It's not nothing. I can tell. Talk to me.
Panel 3:
Man: "GRIMP" is the only English word that is a in a noun, that is the same plural and singular, is a description, and (1) a verb describing an action the noun can't perform on itself.
Panel 4:
Man: Grimp grimp can't grimp grimp grimp.
Panel 5:
Woman: No more, please. No more.
Man: Grimping is the fucking noun and grimp don't take too.
Votey:
A man's face, looking troubled.
Man (thought/speech bubble): Whereas bear bears bears CAN bear bear bears.
Alt text
A five-panel comic set in a dark bedroom. A man and a woman with teal hair lie in bed. Panel 1: She asks "Are you okay? What are you thinking about?" He says "Nothing." Panel 2: She insists "It's not nothing. I can tell. Talk to me." Panel 3: His face fills the panel, eyes wide, as he launches into a tortured linguistic monologue declaring that "GRIMP" is the only English word that is a noun, identical in singular and plural, a description, and a verb for an action the noun can't perform on itself. Panel 4: He recites "Grimp grimp can't grimp grimp grimp." Panel 5: She begs "No more, please. No more," while he keeps muttering about grimping. The joke is a man kept awake by an absurd self-invented grammar puzzle, echoing the famous "buffalo buffalo buffalo" sentence. Votey: A simple line-drawn man's face looking troubled, with the caption "Whereas bear bears bears CAN bear bear bears" -- a parallel homonym-pileup sentence.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.