Estimate
Original: Estimate on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A boss-like man with glasses and brown skin, wearing a dark suit, speaks to a younger blond man wearing a shirt covered in bold black-and-white geometric (zigzag/maze-like) patterns.
Boss: DAVE, I HAVE MORE WORK FOR YOU, BUT... BUT I CAN'T GIVE IT TO YOU BECAUSE I CAN'T CORRECTLY ESTIMATE YOUR DISTANCE OR DIRECTION OF MOTION!
Dave (the blond man, laughing): HAHA HAHA HA!
Caption (below panel): People who think there's no point in studying history have never learned about Dazzle camouflage.
Votey:
A roughly sketched face (suggesting a naval/military figure) speaks.
Figure: YOU CANNOT FIRE WHAT YOU CANNOT RANGEFIND.
A boss-like man with glasses and brown skin, wearing a dark suit, speaks to a younger blond man wearing a shirt covered in bold black-and-white geometric (zigzag/maze-like) patterns.
Boss: DAVE, I HAVE MORE WORK FOR YOU, BUT... BUT I CAN'T GIVE IT TO YOU BECAUSE I CAN'T CORRECTLY ESTIMATE YOUR DISTANCE OR DIRECTION OF MOTION!
Dave (the blond man, laughing): HAHA HAHA HA!
Caption (below panel): People who think there's no point in studying history have never learned about Dazzle camouflage.
Votey:
A roughly sketched face (suggesting a naval/military figure) speaks.
Figure: YOU CANNOT FIRE WHAT YOU CANNOT RANGEFIND.
Alt text
A single comic panel: a boss with glasses and a dark suit leans toward a smiling blond young man wearing a shirt printed with bold black-and-white zigzag, maze-like geometric patterns (resembling WWI ship 'dazzle' camouflage). The boss says, 'Dave, I have more work for you, but... but I can't give it to you because I can't correctly estimate your distance or direction of motion!' Dave laughs: 'Hahahaha!' A caption below reads: 'People who think there's no point in studying history have never learned about Dazzle camouflage.' The joke is that Dave's loud patterned shirt mimics dazzle camouflage, which historically was used to confuse enemy ships' rangefinders by disrupting perception of distance and heading. Votey (a small follow-up panel): a crudely sketched face declares, 'You cannot fire what you cannot rangefind.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.