Comic #6445: ifo

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Here’s the transcription of the comic:

Panel 1: Person on the left (glasses) says:
“MELON SALES ARE FALLING. NOBODY WANTS TO PAY THE PRICES WE USED TO GET.”
Graph shows a downward trend in melon sales.

Panel 2: Person on the left continues:
“I THINK WE CAN ACHIEVE MORE EFFICIENT PRODUCTION BY—”
Other person interjects:
“WHAT IF WE CHANGED THE NAME TO TAKE MONEY FROM THE STUPID RICH?”

Panel 3: Caption:
“SUBSEQUENTLY…”
Newspaper headline:
“FARMCO ANNOUNCES 'INITIAL FRUIT OFFERING'”

Panel 4: Newspaper headline:
“AND THEN…”
“FARMCO IFO OVERSUBSCRIBED THREE TIMES”
Details below:
“SEEN AS GOOD INVESTMENT BY SOMEONE WHO HEARD IT WAS A GOOD INVESTMENT FROM SOMEONE ELSE WHO HEARD IT FROM SOMEONE ELSE IN INFINITE REGRESS TOWARD PROBABLY SOMETHING OF VALUE”

Panel 5: Newspaper headline:
“FROM WHICH IT FOLLOWED…”
“Melonaires Seen Cashing Out, Moving to Private Archipelagos”
Details below:
“Seen laughing, crying while massaged by various nude individuals.”

Panel 6: Newspaper headline:
“AND INEVITABLY…”
“MELON CRASH”
Details below:
“Investors stunned melon is type of fruit they were supposed to eat.”
“Fruit now degraded into lake of noxious jelly-like fluid.”
“INTERNET PEOPLE: ‘WE WILL HOLD FOREVER!’”

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