Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 03, 2012

The Tortoise and the Hare meet a shanky business man, and make up.

Sure looks like he’s paying off the hare to win and the tortoise to lose.

And so… the legend of K Street lobbyists begins !

This is SO true in real life…

I coulda been a contender!"

Did not want to know that…

that explains a whole lot of pro sports. and most of college sports too.

It’s a TORTOISE, not a turtle.

Oh, sure, it’s all about race……

Another simply brilliant cartoon….superb.

So even our childhood was a rip off. Figures.

I almost laughed up my coffee this morning on this one!

Mug worthy.

The tortoise and the hare must’ve been officiating at the Monday night Green Bay/Seattle game.

Green Bay fans: Can we start the season over?

Is that Jimmy Hoppa?

So that’s what happened to Jimmy Hoffa!

I deliver newspapers in the early a.m. and one of my customers has flat stepping stones of alternating rabbits and turtles!

Run, Forrest…er, Tortoise, Run! How many other fables and fairy tales are manipulated by big money? Even the American Dream?

Don’t you mean “buy” a Hare?

This one made me laugh loudly enough for my boss to come into my office and ask, “What’s so funny?”—and then made HIM laugh all the way back to HIS office. Well done!

The hare was just being true to his family: “lagomorphs”, hanging back too long. The tortoise of course was too full of testudines testosterone to let “fur buns” win?

hariseldon59: "Come, crown my brow with leaves of myrtle;I know the tortise is a turtle.Come, carve my name in stone immortal,I know the turtise is a tortle.I know to my profound dispairI bet on one to beat a hare.I also know I’m now a pauperBecause of its turtley, tortley taupor.-Ogden Nash

say it aint so, say it aint so

The hare and tortise wouldn’t even be a good apitizer for Chris Christie. Now if you include the payoff man….I’m just sayin’

I couldn’t see the tortoise in the paper and didn’t get the joke at all. Thank you gocomics.

Joe: Great! Yours? (no credit line) If so, you should come out from behind your nom de web and let us all know so we can watch out for other contributions. Since we no longer have Ogden Nash or Richard Armor, we need you.

Sorry, I can’t resist. Another definition of turtle, this time from Encyclopedia Britannica:

turtle (order Testudines), any reptile with a body encased in a bony shell, including tortoises.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/610454/turtle

“I didn’t take a payoff. That money was a loan to start my own consulting business.”