Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 16, 2014

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    Argythree  almost 10 years ago

    Ok, I admit it. This one has me stumped. What did Crawling Man do to get rid of Leaf Blower Man? I can see what happened to the leaf-blower itself, but not it’s former user. Or maybe Leaf Blower Man is buried next to the dead bear in Buni’s yard?

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    Varnes  almost 10 years ago

    Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!……….Rrrrrrrr?

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    Argythree  almost 10 years ago

    I believe there’s a special place in Hades for the inventor of the leaf blower…

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    Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr   almost 10 years ago

    I admit it; I once stopped an early morning blast of leaf-blowers at my apartment complex by screaming out the window:“LA MIGRA!”Got real quiet, real quick.

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    Proginoskes  almost 10 years ago

    This one will show up at CIDU, guaranteed!

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    spiffny  almost 10 years ago

    Sat 5 p.m. there were at least 5 different lawn services here in the neighborhood with leaf blowers. I only wish he could have worked a man-eating tiger into it somehow.

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    dr_dolittle_rwc  almost 10 years ago

    You’re very spoiled in the states, kinda borders wining. Here in Belize, the weed wackers start around 6am Sunday morning!!

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    puddlesplatt  almost 10 years ago

    I live next to a Golf course…Nuff said!

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    Packratjohn Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    I have an electric leaf blower. Still a little noisy but it only gets used one day a year. I have no trees to speak of, and no leaf problem. I use mine to blow the dust, dirt, and other debris out of the animal’s wool before shearing. It makes the job easier, blades last longer, and I think the animals actually like it. Plus, my nearest neighbor is a good distance away. (He makes far more noise than I) I strayed from my point; electric models are quieter if you don’t mind dragging cords around.

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    freewaydog  almost 10 years ago

    Nice song, I never heard this Zappa one before! Is it from the 60’s?

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    grainpaw  almost 10 years ago

    Leaf blowers are a symptom of what happens when you fight against natural processes. The one-inch high monoculture of grass is what’s unnatural here, as is the adoration of it as perfection. If you have room for the trees, you have room for the leaves. A pile is mostly air, and will shrink down once it gets wet and starts to decay into humus. I would love to have a stockpile of leaves for garden mulch, with the nutrients the trees absorb from the subsoil.

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    sarah413 Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    @Dogsniff. It’s alright with me. Zappa’s lampooning was unmatched. Many send up’s of 50’s and 60’s teen angst songs on that Double album/CD. Yes, I wrote Double album.

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    dabugger  almost 10 years ago

    I just don’t know to say. Or if I should say something. Haunting. Ya know, somehow a person can hear the silence.Something happened…..

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    Budman 2  almost 10 years ago

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    pshapley Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    I use a rake. Quieter, cheaper, a bit more exercise, and it leaves the leaves in a nice pile so I can put them in the trash easily.

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    ladylagomorph76  almost 10 years ago

    Gas blowers are illegal here. Still used all over. I love this strip!

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    sirconny  almost 10 years ago

    This sure was an odd one. I assume the thing he is trying to say is something like:- Even if I would be crawling through a desert, there would be a guy wiht a leafblower (in my face).- The good thing with being a guy crawling through a desert having a pestering leafblowerguy in your face would be that this is a place with no witnesses so no one will know what happened to that guy.

    Still odd, yet not very funny. IMHO…

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    Ppyfss  almost 10 years ago

    Landlord uses an electric vacuum to get the leaves around the porch steps and the base of delicate bushes. He only runs it early afternoon, but one guy in the apartment next door spends the time yelling and cussing telling him to stop. Some people just want to complain no matter what.

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    goweeder  almost 10 years ago

    The whole thing is beyond be-leaf.

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    goweeder  almost 10 years ago

    Stop groaning!

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    wrwallaceii  almost 10 years ago

    I don’t mind Leaf Blowers… that sound means somebody else is collecting all of the leaves the blew from my yard into theirs… I just love technology…

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    wrwallaceii  almost 10 years ago

    Did anyone notice that the leaf blower guy is whistling as he blows the leaves into a huge pile. but, in the last frame, the crawling guy is now whistling as he crawls away from the hanging leaf blowing machine?

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    Kim0158 Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Not only is the disappearance of the leaf-blower guy odd, so is the presence of one deciduous tree in the desert!

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    Joseph Krois  almost 10 years ago

    I think the inference is that since the crawling dude is whistling the leaf-blower guy’s tune as he crawls away is that he ate the leaf-blower guy and threw his blower up in that tree. Personally I think that’s a fitting end for all these idiots blowing dirt around so noisily. Kudos!

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    caitlinlovescomics17  almost 10 years ago

    i dont understand! someone please explain..

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    lindz.coop Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    When women did the sweeping and raking it was manual. When men began to do it — it became mechanized and noisy.

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    TheDOCTOR  almost 10 years ago
    Urp! *
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    rqs1123  almost 10 years ago

    I believe he ate the guy who was using the leaf blower, hence the whistle as he proceeded on his journey

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    Omniman  almost 10 years ago

    Trust corporate America to invent a device to blow our problems into the street, instead of cleaning it up. Trust Americans to embrace it immediately!

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