michel
Original: michel on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A balding man with a beard talks to a younger man with flame-like (spiky) hair.
Balding man: "It drives me crazy! There's the entire Western canon -- Homer, Dante, Shakespeare! And yet all anyone wants online is trite observations on cats!"
Panel 2:
The flame-haired man responds, reading aloud (in French).
Flame-haired man: "Quand je me joue à ma chatte, qui sait si elle passe son temps de moi, plus que je ne fais d'elle."
Panel 3:
The balding man looks puzzled.
Balding man: "What does that--"
Panel 4:
The flame-haired man translates, citing the source.
Flame-haired man: "When I play with my cat, who knows if she's not passing time with me more than I'm passing time with her."
Michel de fucking Montaigne, Essais, Book 2, 1580
Panel 5:
The balding man throws his head back, shouting with delight.
Balding man: "It's cats! It's just cats allllllll the way down!"
(Sound effect: "NOOOO")
Votey:
A simple line-drawn face with a speech bubble.
Voice: "Also Chaucer had more anus-kissing than you might expect."
A balding man with a beard talks to a younger man with flame-like (spiky) hair.
Balding man: "It drives me crazy! There's the entire Western canon -- Homer, Dante, Shakespeare! And yet all anyone wants online is trite observations on cats!"
Panel 2:
The flame-haired man responds, reading aloud (in French).
Flame-haired man: "Quand je me joue à ma chatte, qui sait si elle passe son temps de moi, plus que je ne fais d'elle."
Panel 3:
The balding man looks puzzled.
Balding man: "What does that--"
Panel 4:
The flame-haired man translates, citing the source.
Flame-haired man: "When I play with my cat, who knows if she's not passing time with me more than I'm passing time with her."
Michel de fucking Montaigne, Essais, Book 2, 1580
Panel 5:
The balding man throws his head back, shouting with delight.
Balding man: "It's cats! It's just cats allllllll the way down!"
(Sound effect: "NOOOO")
Votey:
A simple line-drawn face with a speech bubble.
Voice: "Also Chaucer had more anus-kissing than you might expect."
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a balding bearded man complains to a younger man with spiky, flame-like hair: "It drives me crazy! There's the entire Western canon -- Homer, Dante, Shakespeare! And yet all anyone wants online is trite observations on cats!" Panel 2: the flame-haired man calmly recites a line in French: "Quand je me joue à ma chatte, qui sait si elle passe son temps de moi, plus que je ne fais d'elle." Panel 3: the bearded man, confused: "What does that--" Panel 4: the flame-haired man translates: "When I play with my cat, who knows if she's not passing time with me more than I'm passing time with her," attributed to "Michel de fucking Montaigne, Essais, Book 2, 1580." Panel 5: the bearded man throws his head back and shouts "It's cats! It's just cats allllllll the way down!" with a sound effect "NOOOO" -- the joke being that even the revered classics were obsessed with cats. Votey: a minimal line-drawn face with a speech bubble adding, "Also Chaucer had more anus-kissing than you might expect."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.