Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 09, 2013

Where did the bird come from???

Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal.

“One Froggy Evening” had more to do with how little things really change through the decades than it did about evolution. Most monkeys would deny any relationship to the human race.

Blue Boy, HA! You nailed it dude….

He knew the first rule of comedy (know your audience), and forgot the second rule (know when to leave).Remember – in show business, timing is everything.

OK, I’ll admit it. One of the main reasons I come to this site is because I knew you guys were gonna go straight to the Michigan Rag on this one…..Thank you, for not disappointing me… …..

The off hand references to Firesign Theater and Monty Python are great, too.

Man, I forgot to mention the beauty of Wiley’s drawings….Sometime it’s just one or two panels that are particularly exquisite, but today all of them…. Hey you try to draw the first creature to crawl out of the ocean….I love sunday Wileys…..a lot…….

Dinner and a show.

Now that’s a big fin-ish.

He died out there on the stage.

Always good, Wiley—thanks!

Played “bait and switch” on us beautifully, didn’t he?

Show business must have been perfected in the 20th century seeing’s how they’re always repeating the movies from that time.

From what I’ve seen of television shows it must involve convergence. They all begin to look the same.

In the early days the critics were murder, literally.

jes watch where ya song ’n dance……

The hook!

Show biz evolved, and is now disintegrating before our very eyes/ears. The level of “talent”, or that which some view as “talent”, is farcical.

Exit, stage up.

Just in time for the Tonys tonight!

This would never have happened if they had uses Devine Creation.

Wiley, you never disappoint! Absolutely great!

emjaycee, sorry, I meant in general, not today’s comments….

The first show in creation—and it closes opening night!

I hope Ken Ham doesn’t read this strip, it’ll just make him more confused.

wiley is amazing! he is always fresh and his drawings are always top notch. i look forward to his stuff every day and am never disappointed. can you imagine what an incredible mind he must have to be able to use so many different subjects in his strip? wow!

The Looney Tunes Golden Collection credits the voice of the frog as Bill Roberts, a nightclub entertainer in Los Angeles during the1950s.

Reminds me of “Frog-a-pult”

Worse than the “hook” — who knew?!

all the great comments have been made. …. Great Sunday strip, Wiley. Thank you..This also explains why froggie never sang or danced in public. Too many predators.

Hello my baby,hello my honey, Hello my……. Oh you want the next line? sorry we interrupt this song for a lunch break!

(OK, OK, I’m late to the party. Getting my Foley out tomorrow, been busy.)Anyway; a show, then dinner with the headliner! (or OF the headliner?!) Many thanks for the Froggy, and OMG!- Dr. John!

What, after leaving it rest overnight, nobody seems to have touched on; that bird and that walking/dancing fish are on separate lines of evolution, with their own timeframes, in parallel.

People still (paraphrasing S.J.Gould) have the notion that evolution is over!

No, it’s still continuing, in ‘punctuated equilibrium’ as isolated populations, cutoff from the rest of their gene pool, face pressures, and adapt (or die off, and the next little group get to deal with them).

Alan Watts used to get in trouble with academics, as he lectured about Buddhism and Western philosophy, not as though they were dry, ‘safe’ historical subjects, but something alive and still with juice in it.

We are fiddling around (and GASP evolving!) in a living system, folks; give it just a little respect for providing us such a good living/life, and watch for signs of what may be next (and celebrate it)!

bhinkle: Decaff..you seriously need to switch to decaff ASAP..(maybe a little Prozac)

Well.. it was probably a poor performance any way.. too soon in the evolutionary process to tuna fish