2011-09-12

A tall multi-panel comic shows two men seated next to each other on an airplane: an older man with gray hair and glasses, and a younger man. The older man complains that things are different now, saying that when he was young you didn't get "fucked in the ass by an unsympathetic stranger" before being allowed on a plane. The younger man sarcastically replies "Weird!" and the older man mutters "Okay, okay, okay... nice story." The younger man insists it's true, that they used to just grope you and look at naked pictures of you, and asks how the current system catches terrorists. He then argues that terrorists hate getting sodomized by an unsympathetic stranger, so if everyone is made to undergo it, we're safe. The older man flatly says "Yeah..." and the younger agrees "safety's important." The older man says he'd better be off to his flight, then asks if he could borrow some lubricant. The younger man replies, "Do you know they don't allow liquids?" The joke satirizes invasive airport TSA security as institutionalized sexual violation. The bonus votey panel, drawn in a rough black-and-white style, shows two people; one asks "Low on science jokes?" and the other answers "High on sodomy jokes," a self-aware nod to the comic's crude content.