2009-10-11

A three-panel comic. Panel 1: A small blonde girl in a pink dress asks her red-haired father, "Daddy, what's a bagina?" He replies, "A bagina? I've never heard of that." She continues, "Mommy says it's a thing all girls have, but only share with boys they love and have married." Panel 2: A tight close-up of the father, furious and gritting his teeth: "No one ever informed me." Panel 3: The father points accusingly across the room at the mother, who sits at a desk looking irritated, the daughter beside him, as he shouts, "You've been holding out!" -- The joke: the father, having only just learned the (mispronounced) word, indignantly accuses his wife of having withheld sex from him their whole marriage. Votey (small bonus panel, rough black-and-white sketch): The mother's voice from off-panel snaps, "I told you to keep quiet!" while the wide-eyed daughter clamps her mouth shut, having clearly let a secret slip.