Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 24, 2010
Transcript:
Joe Pyle: So what have you girls been up to all day? Danae: Well... Long story short, we set the Ekert free, so now it's out helping people be nice... Which apparently goes against our economic system, so the corporation who actually owns the government is very upset... Kate: And they're gonna launch an invasion. Joe: I have got to stop asking them questions.
ksoskins over 14 years ago
Every things fine, there’s nothing to see, just move along.
harrietbe over 14 years ago
Gotta be ready for those vivid imaginations!
lazygrazer over 14 years ago
…so what part of that didn’t you understand, dad?
cdward over 14 years ago
baslimthebegger said, “Just roll with it…”
… but wear a helmet!
ses1066 over 14 years ago
Ah but that is why you HAVE TO KEEP ASKING questions. Just wait, someday Danae will actually say what her life’s ambitions are and you will have that one space to save the world!
GuntotingLiberal over 14 years ago
Wouldn’t be the first time corporations have gotten involved in war, Daddy.
kfaatz925 over 14 years ago
Nod and smile, Dad!
peter0423 over 14 years ago
We married guys do that too: smile vaguely and mumble, “Yes dear….” :)
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
Repeat the Suburban Sanity Song after me:
Mow, mow, mow your lawn Gently down to sod Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily Life is really odd.
Chorus: I don’t know any Mary Lee really Honey I was just singing a song oh come on you know me better than that I…
Ed Brault Premium Member over 14 years ago
Sounds like the plot for the movie “What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?” where a Tucan spreads a virus that makes people happy, much to the horror of the government! Starred Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard.
My favorite scene was an Ad Agency meeting trying to plan a campaign for a new Miracle Pill, and an “infected” ad man suggested they be honest and tell the absolute truth about the product. ” What can we say ?” asks the VP in charge . “Long contemplative silence….”
“Well…it’s ROUND!”
joefish25 over 14 years ago
“…the corporation who actually owns the government is very upset.” haha spot on, Wiley
pawpawbear over 14 years ago
@marvee—It was revealed awhile back that Flo, the coffeshop owner and barkeep, was involved with Cap’n Eddie back in the day. Around the time of Woodstock to be exact. Flo and Cap’n Eddie went to the big concert and nine months later Dad was born.
And yes, she is probably fuming at Cap’n Eddie since he is generally filling Danae’s and Katy’s heads full of his nonsense.
ottomaeshun over 14 years ago
The joys of fatherhood.
Trebor39 over 14 years ago
Ask a simple question and ….
peter0423 over 14 years ago
Flo? And Cap’n Eddie? So they’re Danae’s grandparents?
Yikes. My mind just boggled.
Redkaycei over 14 years ago
Great story so far, can’t wait to see where it goes
Wiley creator over 14 years ago
whoa, hold on there folks… especially you, John Pike. The Woodstock storyline (the week of 9-14-09) DID NOT indicate in any way that Capt. Eddie is Joe’s father. Don’t go making up stuff and present here as fact.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago
Well, I love the last panel!
OLDDOG82 over 14 years ago
THEN DANAE COULDN’T FIND IT AND TURN IT LOOSE TOO BAD WE DONT HAVE A REAL ONE NOW TO TURN LOOSE ON THE WORLD MIGHT HELP CLEAN THING UP AT LEAST FOR A WHILE
MobyD over 14 years ago
Old Dog, don’t hear. We can shout you.
Now follow along in your books as we learn three new words in Turkish. “Coffee.” “Towel.” “Border.” May I see your passport, please?
Lawrence Stetz Premium Member over 14 years ago
Oh my god, If a wave of good will and cooperation spreads across the land. What will all the snarky cartoonists do now?
IAMLAUGHINGOUTLOUD over 14 years ago
And, I suppose, they also own the SUPREME COURT!
poppacapsmokeblower over 14 years ago
This could be TRUTH, even if fiction. Ever notice how people wonder what you’re up to if you spend a lot of time smiling? Of course they worry more if you laugh maniacally. It’s been a while since I laughed maniacally, 45 minutes and 33 seconds to be exact.
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
Wiley: if we can’t make up stuff and present it as fact, where will the political comments go?
myming over 14 years ago
most fathers w/ children that age figure it’s just their imagination… but w/ danae, he should have had enough experience to know that “something odd” is up…
pawpawbear over 14 years ago
Sorry, Wiley. it sure looked like that was the implication. If I’m wrong, you have my most humble apologies. Perhaps I read more into it than was intended.
JR6019 over 14 years ago
Hey Master Diver, I thought I was the only one who saw the movie ‘What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?’! Saw it on Tv when I was about 10. Some of the social satire went over my head. It would be interesting to see it again, and find out what I catch this time around. I’d also like to see ‘Cold Turkey’ with Dick Van Dyke. It was about a corporation paying a town to quit smoking to prove that it’s impossible. Another overlooked bit of social satire.
pschearer Premium Member over 14 years ago
Of the several people here agreeing with Wiley’s usual (and never admitted) anti-corporation prejudice, I wonder if any of them are aware that they have absorbed one of the oldest Leninist lies.
In the late 19th, early 20th century the German and Russian socialists split over several issues, e.g., nationalism vs. internationalism. Another split was their attitude toward corporations–the Soviets choosing to wipe them out by outright nationalization and the National Socialists choosing to allow them to survive as obedient vassals of the centralized state.
But both ends of the Left/Right European spectrum agreed that corporations were evil. America at the time was still celebrating the accomplishments of people like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Edison, and Ford, but that didn’t last as the European ideologies began creeping into the American psyche.
As just one avenue by which European socialism came to America: Why was Heidelberg never bombed in WWII? Because of the nostalgia of a bunch of New Dealers for their “Student Prince”-style German educations. Those ideas are now so wide-spread that millions of Americans believe them without understanding their origins.
hildigunnurr Premium Member over 14 years ago
Aaawww, the innocence - I’m sure some ppl also still believe in trickle-down economics…
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
Ps: you do realize Wiley is likely incorporated, don’t you? So your comment is likely drivel as usual.
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
Stuff does trickle down from him, though, hildi.
pschearer Premium Member over 14 years ago
Trickle-down was a badly chosen term for the fact that in a prosperous economy, the benefits spread to everyone, even the poorest.
Just imagine a country where the main nutritional problem of the poor is obesity. And where most of the poor have color TV, air conditioning, a car, etc. If you want to see what poverty really is, go to half the countries of the world.
As for the comments from HG and FH, notice how rarely they offer facts or logic. Tells you something.