“What sort of vegetable can your father make with scissors?”/“Pa snips.”

There aren’t many jokes about parsnips, but there is a pun:
 
Q: What sort of vegetable can your father make with scissors?
A: Pa snips.
 
The joke has been cited in print since 2008.
 
   
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