9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for February 11, 2002
Transcript:
Thorax: "Pap, I've just been to the tractor shed to monitor the quantum rift in our temporal singularity." Thorax's father: "Ayuh?" Thorax: "You may recall that that anomaly represents the only means by which we will, one day, return to our own planet." Thorax's father: "Ayuh." Thorax: "Well, will you quit dumping dirty laundry into it?...You have no idea what your underwear does to the space-time continuum." Thorax's father: "I think you're just making up all these prime directives."