2013-07-10

A single-panel comic shows a balding, bearded older man against a dark blue background. In a speech bubble he says, "I'm sorry, but I only engage in sexual congress via the '69' position." A caption beneath the panel reads: "Vilfredo Pareto was a terrible lover." The joke plays on the economist Vilfredo Pareto, famous for the Pareto principle (the 80/20 rule), insisting on the inefficient "69" rather than an 80/20 split. The votey (bonus panel) shows a close-up of the same bald, bearded man, now nude and exasperated, declaring, "By God this is inefficient."