Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 26, 2010

Four comics viewed so far and already 2 have this theme. Like I want more of what I already hear and see.

If you keep a pack of matches in the bathroom (without a power-failure candle jar), you know what this is about.

A prophetic ad from 1998.

Ahh, now for a relaxing bath with soothing bath oils.

It’s always different when it affects me!

Bad news at the Loo.

NIMBTism (Not In My Bath Tub).

Runar:

What a find! The simplicity, the unsurpassed irony! The ad itself would make a great political cartoon today.

Runar, that’s perfect!

I’m afraid I have to be the first to admit … I have no idea what I’m looking at here. What’s the joke? Even with the comic enlarged, I can’t make out what’s in the bathtub.

That is a great find. There is another one floating around the internet, on Friends of Irony if you want to go look. It shows a BP pump with the ubiquitous sign which reads”Do not leave pumps unattended. You are responsible for spills” That’s GOOOOD irony!

It’s an offshore oil rig

Hey Wiley, I see once again you’ve given the wife the great come-back line. ;-) (But, you keep featuring my b-i-l as the man.)

Regulations are USELESS if they are ignored. BP ignored safety regulations while trying to cut costs. Had they followed the rules there would have been no disaster. $20Billion is just a start, strip this company to the bare bones!

Rig names…. Tubwater Bathring?

Check out the sights here, and here, and here.

Listen to how terrible the spill is as you ride all alone in your car to work cause car pooling is inconvenient..

Ya know, they say there would be no drug violence if Americans stopped using illegal drugs

Wonder if oil works that way?

For what it’s worth, another point of view.

http://shtf411.com/bp-illusion-of-a-false-spill-t7065.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhrFLLiuA9U&feature=player_embedded

Thefinalsolution:

That should be a pointless view.

Why build one in his bathtub? There is clearly no oil in his bathtub.

That’s just an exploratory well. Who knows? He should have checked on mineral rights before buying.

Oil in bathtubs depends on how greasy the person is who just bathed there is …. are we going to drill in the BP exec’s bathtubs? May be a good source! :)

SO, the alternate view is ‘this happens naturally all the time, what’s the harm?’ OK, how about this? “People die in car crashes all the time, why bother to make things safer, it is just ‘natural’” or maybe better “People get eaten by wild animals all the time, it is just ‘natural’ why fight it?’ I suppose it depends on what end of the tiger is staring at you, doesn’t it?

I always heard that bath oil is good for the skin.

BP followed the regs filed all the paperwork and recieved approval for every thing they did from M.M.S.. So who’s at fault? Typical response from this administration,villify and discredit anything that shines the light on them. Who was it that said they had to go out that far to drill anyway?

Oh well, what seems to be the problem here? It seems to be like an oil well An offshore oil rig, which is basically inland. Inside an executive’s bathtub. It still is slippery when wet, And it’s a part of what you will get.

Another crude awakening, For all human beings. Rules and regulations, Responsibilities and obligations. From being ethical to becoming logical, It’s just quizzical, or metaphysical.

Another oil drilling expedition, More profits is the real mission. But all things are about to unfold, The ways of the wild in all the world. Will come together for a peaceful solution, As mother earth hangs in a balanced condition.

Actually,dave, was just checking the CFRs (regs) this past week and BP did NOT follow them, or lease stipulations, as is coming out more every day from paperwork and workers on the rig.

Onshore leasing, the dude can go check his mom’s grave, because they’re drilling there too.

Ethics are the doormats of the oil industry.

Y’all the readers are soooooooooo funny! I laughed and laughed after I read each comments that you posted on about the oil rig in the bathtub. X-D hahahahahaaaaa….

Hey troll! Play with your new toy oilrig while you sit in the bathtub and squirt the pumping water thing up into the hole of oilrig and let it splash up high enough WHEEEEEEE! What’s soooo fun!

I think it is kinda of silly thing to play with in the bathtub! roll my eyes up/down! geeez!

Exactly HOW oily is his hair?!?

Actually, I think the rig’s drilling into the basement parking garage and siphoning gas from the neighbor’s car…

Dave, I find it interesting that you want to blame the Obama administration (which had only what, sixteen months in office at the time of the disaster) for the behavior of an agency that the previous administration spent eight full years corrupting, complete with drugs and prostitutes supplied by the oil companies. If those who were supposed to enforce the regulations did the old wink-and-nod at things like “disaster plans” containing phone numbers of dead people as “emergency consultants” (and it appears they did, all over the place), let’s put the blame where it belongs: on eight years of an administration whose sole objective for MMS was to turn it into a rubber stamp for the oil and mining industries.

Even Hercules couldn’t clean out the Augean Stables overnight.

poohbear8192

Why? Because it doesn’t fit in with your prepackaged world view? The Matrix is real, just not the one the movies depict.

Wiley - another instant classic! Great job.

Definitely better here than in the miniaturized greyscale version in my morning paper. I could tell it was an oil rig, but not that there was water in the tub.

You said it best Puddle!

The oil wells were regulated. Should we create more patronage jobs and hire more lawyers that don’t know drill pipe from sewage pipe? Jim Shaffer

How about a strip on Obama not allowing foriegn ships to help clean up the oil before it got to the wetlands and thwe wildlife habitats. Obama choose union jobs over saving our shores!