Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling for October 14, 2024

“You, sir, are a doorknob.”

2014? You is gots back in time by a whole decade Dumbwoody.

If it’s the future, why aren’t all the doors electric, like in Star Trek? You don’t see any doorknobs on the Enterprise, do you? (Doors in Holodeck programs don’t count; they’re simulated)

You. You’re a doorknob.

A doorknob, something smarter than you!

“‘What is a doorknob?’ is going to be the final question when you appear on Jeopardy! in 2026. Remember this, and you’ll win $26,300.”

Little does he know but he has landed in 2024 San Francisco where giving tourists confusing answers to questions is a local pasttime. :)

In 1878, Osbourn Dorsey, an African-American living in Washington, D.C., patented the modern doorknob. Some claim that Dorsey was only 16 at the time, although his true date of birth is unknown.

15 extra points if you can work this into a dinner-party conversation.

Your Momma.