Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 04, 2013

What about the Cellsaphone?

Sous sorry.

No Tubas in Tuscon,….No drummers in Durango…No trombones in………um……….No trombones in…….No fiddles in Philadelphia….? I know, I know, not a lot of cattle there these days, except the ones being eaten…

Dust off those dusty cows just one more time….Gonna make ’em shine….With apologies to Bob and Jerry….

And you can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd either

Cell phones do that too

Duh… Captain Obviouis.

Wait, wait… cattle drive, right? Well they are drove now… I don’t see a real problem here.

wrwallacellii, I’d love to see cattle drive…..Mooooove over….Moooooove…Yeah, I know, bedtime…..

Sousaphone? No, but he did text message.Always pick the right band instrument for yourself.

I’d best steer clear.

Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,It’s your misfortune and not of my own.Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,You know that the cowboy can’t play the trombone.

A cello might be useful

Actually, that’s a tuba he drew. Tubas wrap around you. Sousaphones don’t and are fairly complex.

they herd about the last time you got horny

good rule, but kinda Horney…..

Ahhhh man……he made that up. Its not in the Code of the West.Heck we allowed Brokeback Mountain so sousaphones are perfectly acceptable.

How much cattle production is there in the desert southwest?

If it had been a trombone, he would have let it slide…

Nope, a Sousaphone was a tuba that was designed for marching bands. Sousa wrote many marches and was attributed as the designer of the Sousaphone, or Marching Tuba.

… struggling for a good comic today, Wiley?

@Varnes…no trombones in Toledo, no brass in Biloxi, no cymbals in Cincinnati, no oboes in Oxnard etc etc…..let’s see where we can go with this ad nauseum

And, um, shouldn’t that be “the coda of the West”?

Sometimes, Wiley is so off the wall, you just have to laugh. Today’s strip makes absolutely no sense at all and I love it.

Funny, I never saw the Sons of the Pioneers on a cattle drive. They always seemed to hang around the campfire or the bunkhouse singing. At least Roy put himself on Trigger, once in awhile.Rawhide was one of my favorite Westerns on T.V. until I realized that they looped the same shots for stampedes every time.

But I was playing a march not a stampede!

Senex is correct – plus there is a marching tuba which is essentially a regular tuba with modifications made near the mouthpiece so that the tuba rests on the shoulder with the bell end facing forward.

Sousa did not invent the sousaphone, and used upright tubas in his band. It was essentially an improvement on the hellicon, which also wrapped around the marcher, but had a euphonium-sized bell which didn’t sound like a tuba. The sousaphone was named in honor of Sousa, who wrote so many marches that marching bands adopted the sousaphone for both its sound and convenience in marching. Most British marching bands still use upright tubas, some without slings. Sousa’s band was a sit-down concert band and played a wide variety of musical styles.

Methinks Senor Wiley was more interested in the visual effect of the cowboy on horseback blasting away on that infernal instrument, than he was about whether his drawing was an accurate representation of a sousaphone. After all, even the name, sousaphone, is absurdly funny !

Anyone see my tuba toothpaste around here? I think my tuba needs to brush his tooth!I do believe we passed ad nauseum two doors back!

Is a double-bell euphonium better? How about a trombone?

I thought a Sousaphone had the bell pointing straight up…

When we awoke in a small town in Switzerland, we heard an intermittent “clonk, clonk” outside our guest-house. When we looked, it was a herd of cows grazing on the village lawn.

I later learned from a friend who had lived in Switzerland that the Swiss carefully wrap their cow-horns so the won’t RING as the bells we find in curio shops do.