2014-12-28

A six-panel comic. A young boy asks his father, "Daddy, if you had a time machine, what would you do?" The father answers, "I would travel back four years and wear a condom on the day we conceived your sister." The boy replies, "But I don't have a sister." The father looks smug. The boy, now annoyed, says, "How about you go clean your room like I asked?" The father, suddenly contrite, says, "Yes sir!" The joke flips the expected roles: the father gives the brutal time-travel answer implying he'd undo the boy's existence (the boy IS the would-be sibling), then reasserts parental authority. Votey: a hand-drawn boy sits inside a cardboard box labeled "time maching," a child's misspelled toy time machine.