Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 21, 2016

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    Superfrog  almost 8 years ago

    Maybe Dick.

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    Can't Sleep  almost 8 years ago

    Time to take a deep breath, and dive!

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    Dtroutma  almost 8 years ago

    Moby! DUCK!

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    asianwoof  almost 8 years ago

    The White Whale — a double entendre for modern times.

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    Bill The Nuke  almost 8 years ago

    As we used to say on the submarine…DIVE, DIVE, DIVE!

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    nosirrom  almost 8 years ago

    Looks like the crew just did.

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    Bilan  almost 8 years ago

    “Oh great. Another old friend hanging around for Christmas.”

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    derdave969  almost 8 years ago

    Moby Dick is not a social disease.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    Never!

    My heart is pure, my struggle righteous and my backers quite insistent.

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    TossedSaladCartoon  almost 8 years ago

    If Moby Dick were written for today’s generation, what would it be about? How to you write a story about obsession for a group lacking the ambition to do anything beyond click a “like” button? Most of today’s generation can’t even name the author of this literary classic, let alone should we expect they would have read it. Yet they will consume drivel such as Twilight without a second thought. I weep for the future!

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    Dani Rice  almost 8 years ago

    Actually, I’m pleasantly surprised at how well educated our grandchildren are – most of them are in their late 20s.

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    sandpiper  almost 8 years ago

    It’s no longer the ‘elephant in the room.’ It’s the huge white whale in the future.

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    Kveldulf  almost 8 years ago

    For those who have not read it, Moby Dick is written in alternating chapters. Half are the almost mystical story (“surreal”, word of the year?) with which we are all familiar. The other half are a detailed documentary of the whaling industry at the time. You can also find some humour thrown into the opening chapters — “One clam” and the description of a painting spring to mind..Heavy reading in this day and age but worth the effort.

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    magicwalnut Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    “Most of the generation couldn’t name the author”…reminds me of the time I suggested to one of my graduate students to have a client read aloud something by, say, Robert Frost…“Who’s Robert Frost?”, quoth she….

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    Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    Moby Dick at Thanksgiving dinner: “I’d like a leg, please.”

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    dabugger  almost 8 years ago

    Yes, good idea Capt Ahab. A way of coming to a better reality with nature. Whale of an outcome.

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    Slatsmagee  almost 8 years ago

    Never bite off more whale blubber than you can chew…

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    zeexenon  almost 8 years ago

    Take three deep breaths captain, we’re about to dive two miles to eat the best squid. Don’t let the bioluminescent critters scare you.

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    Linguist  almost 8 years ago

    @Wiley

    Were I were back in the “working world”, ( pun intended ) I’d be sending off to get a print of this, to hang in my office !

    Brilliant on sooo many levels !

    And…as always, funny and thought provoking.

    Thanks !!

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    Numbnumb  almost 8 years ago

    It was just practice! Really! This whale is only Moby Dork!Honest!!

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    ahab  almost 8 years ago

    “What me worry?”

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    briankcohen  almost 8 years ago

    Does anyone else realize this is almost an exact duplicate of a strip Wiley ran about 8 years ago, except it was about “reevaluating the mission plan”. I know – I have the mousepad.

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    dnihilist  almost 8 years ago

    “And now we find out that world wide research is showing a rapid decline in human IQ”s."

    As a major recent US event lends more evidence….

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