the-talk-2

A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A bespectacled, balding father listens as his red-haired son (offscreen) says, "Dad, me and a girl were talking about how much we like Winston Churchill. And... I think it's getting pretty serious." Panel 2: The father says gravely, "Son, it's time we had the Winston Churchill talk." Panel 3: The son looks worried as the father explains, "Winston Churchill was very funny, but almost every funny story attributed to him wasn't something he actually said." Panel 4: The son, looking betrayed, cries "Why did you keep this from me?!" and the father, hands raised, answers "We wanted you to have a happy childhood!" The joke frames the well-known fact that many witty quotes are misattributed to Churchill as if it were a traumatic birds-and-the-bees revelation. Votey (bonus panel): A simply drawn man's face with wide eyes and an open mouth says, "Strictly speaking, nothing clever has ever been said by anyone."