compliment
Original: compliment on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with red hair sits at a desk typing on a computer, thinking to himself.
Man (thought): I have to say something nice about him, but this guy is a moron. How can I say something that sounds complimentary, but which actually means that everything he says is either wrong or too vague to be right?
Panel 2:
The same man stands at a podium giving a speech, gesturing.
Caption (above podium): AND SO...
Man: He is the Nostradamus of his field!
Votey:
A simply-drawn smiling face.
Voice (off-panel): He says so many things that people believe!
A man with red hair sits at a desk typing on a computer, thinking to himself.
Man (thought): I have to say something nice about him, but this guy is a moron. How can I say something that sounds complimentary, but which actually means that everything he says is either wrong or too vague to be right?
Panel 2:
The same man stands at a podium giving a speech, gesturing.
Caption (above podium): AND SO...
Man: He is the Nostradamus of his field!
Votey:
A simply-drawn smiling face.
Voice (off-panel): He says so many things that people believe!
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a red-haired man sits typing at a computer, thinking, "I have to say something nice about him, but this guy is a moron. How can I say something that sounds complimentary, but which actually means that everything he says is either wrong or too vague to be right?" Panel 2: the same man stands at a podium giving a speech; a caption reads "AND SO..." and he declares, "He is the Nostradamus of his field!" The joke: calling someone a Nostradamus sounds flattering but actually implies they make vague, wrong-but-believed pronouncements. Votey: a crudely drawn smiling face with an off-panel voice adding, "He says so many things that people believe!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.