Cartoon about getting a ‘compliment’ from a speaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Zach Weinersmith Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon on August 24, 2024 titled Compliment has the following monologue:

 

“ ’I have to say something nice in my speech 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?’

 

And so…

 

‘He is the Nostradamus of his field!’ ”

 

Wikipedia has articles on both Damning with faint praise and Not even wrong (unfalsifiable).

 

I previously blogged about Zach’s cartoons in a post on September 28, 2019 titled A cartoon tip on how not to wow your audience and on March 21, 2020 in another post titled Cartoon about how filler words when finishing a presentation sound more impressive in Latin.

 

A speaker was adapted from this cartoon at Wikimedia Commons.