fresh-2
Original: fresh-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Label (bottom of panel): FAMOUS ARCHAEOLOGY
Man (an archaeologist, examining an item): Looking at the grave goods and gold fillings recovered from his dentistry, he appears to have been from a middle class background.
Panel 2:
A woman with flame-like red hair, indignant: Oh my god! Are you digging up a freshly-buried corpse?!
The archaeologist (standing in a graveyard among headstones, gesturing): I am doing SCIENCE and YOU are applying a DOUBLE STANDARD, madame!
Lower section (a graph):
Title implied by axes.
Y-axis label: SOCIAL APPROVAL OF DIGGING UP A GRAVE
X-axis label: TIME
Label near the origin (low point of the curve): SUSPECTED NECROPHILIA
A red curve rises exponentially from near zero at the left (low social approval / suspected necrophilia) to high social approval as time increases.
Votey:
The archaeologist, looking smug/defensive, hand on chest: I prefer the term "grave-redistributor."
Label (bottom of panel): FAMOUS ARCHAEOLOGY
Man (an archaeologist, examining an item): Looking at the grave goods and gold fillings recovered from his dentistry, he appears to have been from a middle class background.
Panel 2:
A woman with flame-like red hair, indignant: Oh my god! Are you digging up a freshly-buried corpse?!
The archaeologist (standing in a graveyard among headstones, gesturing): I am doing SCIENCE and YOU are applying a DOUBLE STANDARD, madame!
Lower section (a graph):
Title implied by axes.
Y-axis label: SOCIAL APPROVAL OF DIGGING UP A GRAVE
X-axis label: TIME
Label near the origin (low point of the curve): SUSPECTED NECROPHILIA
A red curve rises exponentially from near zero at the left (low social approval / suspected necrophilia) to high social approval as time increases.
Votey:
The archaeologist, looking smug/defensive, hand on chest: I prefer the term "grave-redistributor."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic labeled "FAMOUS ARCHAEOLOGY." Panel 1: a man (an archaeologist) calmly examines remains and says, "Looking at the grave goods and gold fillings recovered from his dentistry, he appears to have been from a middle class background." Panel 2: a red-haired woman recoils in horror, shouting "Oh my god! Are you digging up a freshly-buried corpse?!" The archaeologist, standing in a cemetery full of headstones, gestures and replies, "I am doing SCIENCE and YOU are applying a DOUBLE STANDARD, madame!" Below the panels is a hand-drawn graph plotting "Social approval of digging up a grave" (y-axis) against "Time" (x-axis). The red curve starts near zero at the origin, labeled "suspected necrophilia," and rises exponentially to high approval over time, the joke being that the only difference between grave-robbing crime and respectable archaeology is how long the body has been buried. Votey: the archaeologist, smug and defensive with a hand on his chest, says, "I prefer the term 'grave-redistributor.'"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.