Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 20, 2019

Flo’s still on the hook.

You’d never get wishes granted by anything that shellfish.

Captain Eddie needs to talk with Moondog (Monty) as he at least recently called for the bar tab.

Dummy; tell him the wish before you throw him back in. Afterwards, all bets are off.

So, is the moral of the story Don’t count your lobster wishes until they hatch?

I wish Wiley would rename the boat so I don’t have to look the name up every time. (Too hard to work it into a conversation.)

it’s more possible than you think. lobsters are biologically immortal.

…and the lesson we learn from today’s strip is “lobsters can’t be trusted”.

Bah? Humbug.

The ole shellfish game.

I don’t get it. Sometimes political jokes are too obscure.

see the name of the boat but don’t understand

A talking lobster. Maybe he could have sold it for enough to pay his bar tab.

That lobstah has all the makings of a politician and Eddie has all the intelligence of the average voter.

Anoesis is a state of mind consisting of pure sensation or emotion without cognitive content. Pronunciation: an-oh-ee-sis.

A talking lobster would have been worth much more than his bar tab.

I once read a short story that riffed on the old theme of being careful what you wish for from the genie in the bottle. In this one, the wisher was aware of the perils and so figured to engage in unobjectionable altruism and wished for all imprisoned genies everywhere to be freed. The wish was granted. It turned out that there was good reason for all those genies to have been imprisoned in the first place.

That’s a democrat politician in the trap. Pass our version of the budget now and then we will discuss money for the wall.

All the best fairy tales start with a magical lobster.

The thing about wishes is that you have to work for them. Perhaps if you wished that you did not need to work to get your wishes fulfilled it would work.

“I wish for more wishes.”

“You can’t do that.”

“I wish I could wish for more wishes.”

“…”

“I wish for more magic lobsters.”

I’m not sure which is worse for ole Capt. Eddy. Being forced to pay his bar tab or being cut off for not paying it !

That’s easy for her to say!

Blue lobstahs are exceedingly rare. They are blue because they granted their own wish to be blue so they’d get tossed back!

This is how Democrats negotiate with Republicans. Give them what they want and they will give you ………? Republicans fall for this every time.

Have the wish granted, then release him (or her?).