Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 21, 2020

I’ll have some of what she had…. LOL

“Attack Of The Killer Mosquitoes”. Wasn’t this a movie on Mystery Science Theater 3000?

I hope those bugs don’t get hungry on the way.

The main problem would be if they suddenly become hungry…

THEY ATE MOST OF THE ROCK!!!? Where can I find a batch of them? I have a few ‘jobs’ for them to do! ;)

This is rather scratchy – only a fella from some cold-weather region can romanticise mosquitoes. The reality, on the other hand, is rather biting.

Just watch out if they decide to start nuzzling you with their noses.

Hard to say which child is more annoying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_(film)

I grew up in the South, thought I knew mosquitoes. But a summer spent in Maine taught me a lesson. Go out at night, you didn’t need a swarm to carry you away. Just a couple could do the job.

But I hear they put you back when they are done with you.

I’ve heard there are places where the mosquitos are thick enough to ride on.

Jill should get together with the autistic boy from a couple weeks ago. A power couple in a different sense of the term.

If you thought beach sand in the swimsuit was uncomfortable, imagine what the same scenario with mosquitoes instead of sand.

Mosquito: a tiny lawyer with wings. A blood-sucking parasite.

I wonder how’s the mileage. 19 miles to a gallon? …of blood?

I can see Jill in 20 years driving a pink Cadillac with Mary Kay license plates…

Is this Florida already?

I know, I know, this is just a cartoon, but the physics of a human, even a small one, being carried by a “mosquito cloud” just don’t work. Given the lifting power of one mosquito, that cloud would have to be the size of a Zeppelin to lift two kids. And what is Jill standing on? The mosquitos in contact with her body could not use their wings at all, and a fairly small number of mosquitos would have to hold her entire weight, against other mosquitos (who then couldn’t use THEIR wings!), with those spindly legs, which couldn’t hold more than a tiny fraction of an ounce. Even with a quick calculation, the whole thing falls apart pretty quickly.

If you ask people “Which animal is deadliest to human beings?”, most of them will guess lions, tigers, bears, sharks, black-widow spiders, rattlesnakes, and the like. Not even close. Mosquitoes kill off over a million of us each year, mainly thru transmission of malaria.

That looks like fun.

I’m having deja vu here… haven’t we seen this before?

Better get used to it….more are on the way.

That must be some of those Louisiana or Mississippi size XXL mosquitos!

Didn’t I read somewhere that the mosquito is Alaska’s state bird?

I could swear that she’s done this before. Is this a re-run?