Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 25, 2010
Transcript:
Jeffrey: OK... So just when in history did you want to go, Danae? Danae: I'm not exactly sure, Jeffrey... But I want to go back and see what the world was like when people weren't so stupid and annoying! Jeffrey: And that time would be...? Danae: I don't know... Can't this thing do a time travel Google search? Jeffrey: Only for reality.
alviebird over 14 years ago
Oh, no. Please, no reality.
madKanga over 14 years ago
And certainly a time before @#!& spammers
silvrGrl123 over 14 years ago
Well, the spammers can certainly be classified as stupid and annoying. Grrrrrr….
Colt9033 over 14 years ago
I don’t think Danae realizes the time sheet looking for is the one she in right now.
Plods with ...™ over 14 years ago
What the he11 is a BCE?
TheDOCTOR over 14 years ago
JUST…
FLAG EM!colt380 over 14 years ago
hey- make sure you have google maps with you don’t want to get lost
NoBrandName over 14 years ago
IIRC, BCE is PC 4 BC
Potrzebie over 14 years ago
How about the age of enlightment?
vexatron1984 over 14 years ago
That’s easy, go back to when humans hadn’t evolved yet!
twj0729 over 14 years ago
That certainly would be before Cell Teles!
cartwrights over 14 years ago
Absolutely classic.
BCE: Before Common Era. Yes, it’s the PC substitute for BC. CE, Common Era, is the PC substitute for AD. Don’t even get me started on how stupid these are. If you want to start a fist fight among historians (seriously!), just ask a bunch of them which they prefer, and wait for the fireworks.
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
I think she’ll need to go into the future…but how far is the question.
Justice22 over 14 years ago
Palos, Are you saying that stupidity and annoyance started with your birth?
TexTech over 14 years ago
I think Grog is on the right track. Unfortunately, I think it will have to be waaaaaaayyyy in the future before we stop being stupid. I’m not so sure we can get over the annoying part, however.
Barbaratoo over 14 years ago
“Luddite 1811, from name taken by an organized band of weavers who destroyed machinery in Midlands and northern England 1811-16 for fear it would deprive them of work. Supposedly from Ned Ludd, a Leicestershire worker who in 1779 had done the same before through insanity (but the story was first told in 1847). Applied to modern rejecters of automation and technology from at least 1961.” AKA - Me
Varnes over 14 years ago
That would be before stinky booger brained boys?
fins59 over 14 years ago
Reality…… I only go there as a visitor
-Steven WrightHowieL over 14 years ago
“Reality is silly putty.” -Paul Krassner
Trebor39 over 14 years ago
Send Danae to tomorrow Jeffrey. Then she’ll always be a day away.
Lyons Group, Inc. over 14 years ago
How about going back to the time when people started usng profanity (cussing)?
vldazzle over 14 years ago
@Josh, I’m sure as soon as speech was invented, a man got angry with something/someone and there was some version of profanity. I have studied a great deal about the evolution of our language as a recreator of early centuries…
puddleglum1066 over 14 years ago
Time travel is like any other form of travel–just about anyplace/time you go will be better than where you are now… especially if you remember to make reservations at a four-star resort.
brewwitch over 14 years ago
When Danae puts on her ‘charming’ smile as in the third frame, I have but one thought….
“Be Afraid – Be Very Afraid.”
lazygrazer over 14 years ago
Danae, the time period you’re looking for is just before God said “Let us make man in our image……”
Howdy_Doodat Premium Member over 14 years ago
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my Non Sequitur for the day. It quickly absorbs me and banishes the clouds from my mind. Bv)=
treered over 14 years ago
i was going to say she should go to before Eve ate the apple, but the guys in B.E. probably wouldn’t agree. And i am positive that Danae would not think highly of the guys in B.E.!
bmonk over 14 years ago
If everyone you meet is stupid and annoying, will going to other times (or places) make a difference?
If everyone you meet is stupid or annoying, maybe the problem isn’t them…
Dapperdan61 Premium Member over 14 years ago
Try going back before the 1st politician was born
lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago
You can tell in panel 3 that she knows that time period never existed.
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
All these oldies and no on learned from the Twilight Zone that you can’t find happiness anywhere if you aren’t happy with yourself. And the craziest, meanest fools in the world are ALWAYS happy with themselves when they’re in charge. Danae will never be happy unless she’d in an era run by Danae. So she will never be…(Rod Serling moment. Too bad it doesn’t include real writing talent.)
EagerYuzu over 14 years ago
Even if they go to a time when there weren’t any other people, there would still be two, one of which finds the other at least annoying…