Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 14, 2019

how do you want your geese? baked, broiled, BBQ’d or fricasseed?

Big bugs on the windshield, and they can bring a plane down flying into engines. Maybe birds getting even to for what we’re doing to their populations?

Let us hope Sully is the pilot.

It’s not about who’s right. It’s about who’s left.

Brexit :-(

“Everybody DUCK!”

“Duck? but we’re geese, and I… (SPLAT!!) ……………..

The origin of “dead right”

… but that plane may end in the Hudson.

Just drop a few dozen of your eggs into the engines, that will take care of the plane.

Who ever has to least to loose has the right of way.

And to think that we flocked to you as our leader.

“They were right, / dead right, / as they flew along. / But they’re / just as dead / as though / they’d been wrong”

The law of gross tonnage. Whoever’s biggest has the right of way.

Continual discussion between the parties.

When I was in pilot training they told us that the canopy of our aircraft can survive impact with a one-pound bird traveling at 500 knots.This ambiguous sentence made us ask, “Do you mean the aircraft or the bird is traveling at 500 knots.” The answer was, “It doesn’t matter.”

“Right of Way” is a convention of civilized courtesy.

Too often, we are dealing with uncivilized trolls … at sea, on the road, or in the air.

Expecting uncivilized trolls to recognize and apply civilized conventions of courtesy is a fallacy, and doomed to produce undesired results.

Only one Max8 joke? I am disappointed.

Both the hubris geese and the hubris MCAS designers are birdbrains. Of course, I would not be surprised to find out there were budget issues in getting it right.

Hey geese, fly into the engine and take them with you.

This metaphor has flown over most heads.

Fly into the engines! That’ll show ’em!!!!!

Republican Geese. “We are ALWAYS RIGHT, no matter what!”

As is most often the case, very clever and funny Mr. Wiley.

Just had a layover in Salt Lake, and for the first time ever in my travels, I heard the captain address the “flock” that the aircraft was grounded due to a bird strike, and he didn’t know how long it would take to repair or find another aircraft. Happily it wasn’t my flight.

Those geese remind of the “militant” bicyclists around here.

That’s not what I meant when I said goose the engines.

ROFL……. Way funny!! Wiley should donate his brain to science, if they’re not already in line for it.

Time to call in the mediator.

So, who is going to go “Down” sooner? (Sorry…)

This kind of reminds me of an old cartoon in MAD Magazine on “Boat Ownership”. The cartoon mentioned the fact that “Sailboats always have the right of way over powered craft, as they are harder to maneuver”. It showed a small one man sailboat challenging the “Queen Mary” for the right of way! The next panel showed the “QM” stopped, with the caption: “As we see the Queen Mary HAS actually stopped. Of course, it’s hard for it to move with the wreckage of a sailboat wrapped around the Propellers!”

DIP!

An old saying goes: Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.

The bigger they are the harder they hit.

They were right, dead right!

I’m not a greedy person, and I will happily yield the right-of-way to avoid any unpleasantness. But as my father used to say on driving, “I only want my lane, but I want all of it.”

The plane has right of weight.

The right of way does no good if you end up dead.

I really don’t think this is so funny, considering it happened with dire results!

Too bad readers of the Boston Globe are denied the humor of Non Sequitur. So clever!

Right of way is nothing to die over.