Poll
Original: Poll on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A balding man with gray flame-like tufts of hair on the sides of his head, wearing round glasses and a red shirt, holds a yellow telephone receiver to his ear with a neutral expression.
Caller (over the phone, in speech balloon): HI. I'M WITH THE MC ESCHER POLLING AGENCY. ARE YOU GOING TO IMMEDIATELY SAY NO IN RESPONSE TO THIS SURVEY QUESTION?
Votey:
A rough, sketchy line-drawing redraw of the same man holding the phone.
Man: NO CHANCE OF ME NOT SAYING NO.
A balding man with gray flame-like tufts of hair on the sides of his head, wearing round glasses and a red shirt, holds a yellow telephone receiver to his ear with a neutral expression.
Caller (over the phone, in speech balloon): HI. I'M WITH THE MC ESCHER POLLING AGENCY. ARE YOU GOING TO IMMEDIATELY SAY NO IN RESPONSE TO THIS SURVEY QUESTION?
Votey:
A rough, sketchy line-drawing redraw of the same man holding the phone.
Man: NO CHANCE OF ME NOT SAYING NO.
Alt text
A balding man with gray flame-like tufts of hair, round white glasses, and a red shirt holds a yellow phone receiver to his ear with a flat expression. The caller, in a speech balloon, says: "Hi. I'm with the MC Escher polling agency. Are you going to immediately say no in response to this survey question?" The joke is the self-referential, paradox-style loop reminiscent of M.C. Escher's impossible figures. Votey (bonus panel): a crude sketch-style redraw of the same man on the phone; he replies, "No chance of me not saying no." — a tangle of double and triple negatives that loops back on the question.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.