Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 31, 2020

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    I Mad Am I  almost 4 years ago

    “Call her at least once a week.”

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    in.amongst  almost 4 years ago

    Errr…. The mother of all wisdoms?!?

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    Concretionist  almost 4 years ago

    Mine is “Yes dear!”

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    Bilan  almost 4 years ago

    Listen to your mother . . . and get a cat.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Most convincing explanation I ever heard about anything: “Because I’m the mom, that’s why!”

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    RAGs  almost 4 years ago

    She only wants you to call her once, and not hang up.

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    jessie d.  almost 4 years ago

    And preferably one of your mother’s cats; keep it all in the family, truly some of us are beginning to look like a cat especially around dinner time. That 24 hour diner is always open .. morning time; mourn for the sake of your cats’ food tab ; remember a cat, stuffed full of Fancy Feast (only the best will do food) while dozing those sweet dreams allows the human to doze as well.

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    Enter.Name.Here  almost 4 years ago

    “…and remember the “Golden Rule” that mom is always right,even when wrong.

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    gammaguy  almost 4 years ago

    I thought all conventions were cancelled because of the pandemic.

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    mattro65  almost 4 years ago

    I very much wish I could still listen to my mother. The values she instilled in me saved me more than once.

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    admiree2  almost 4 years ago

    I didn’t know Mike Pence could climb a mountain.

    Mother says…

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    RohanDemon  almost 4 years ago

    For me that will be a really Loooooong distance call.

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    Sanspareil  almost 4 years ago

    Does her cat seem familiar?

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    dot-the-I  almost 4 years ago

    “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time — but…you…can’t… fool… MOM." (Captain Penny, 50’s local kid show host.)

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    franki_g  almost 4 years ago

    She’s feelin’ ♪guru-vy♪

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    sappha58  almost 4 years ago

    I no longer hate my egg donor, but she’ll never be my mother again.

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    sandpiper  almost 4 years ago

    Could be one of several things with that cat. Muriel and Cap’n Eddie swap days caring for the same cat. They each have the same breed. Or the cat travels the time lines even more than Cap’n Eddie has any idea. Scary.

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    sandpiper  almost 4 years ago

    We wish everyone a very happy new year. May it be all you with it to be. And remember, resolutions are not limited to diet, exercise, and denial. Start out looking for the positives and grabbing on. Next, try to find ways to handle or discard the negatives. Takes a lot of effort, but it an be done. Prayers for all.

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    Lawrence.S  almost 4 years ago

    Ummm… Not all moms are the same. Those who never say this should be listened to. Those who want it tattooed on their kids forehead (but settle for saying it three hundred times a day) need therapy.

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    monya_43  almost 4 years ago

    How did Paulie get there and where is Captain Eddie? Happy New Year everyone.

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    pathamil  almost 4 years ago

    …and don’t run with scissors!

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    WGillete  almost 4 years ago

    “Call her every day. Find a nice girl. And for heaven’s sake, get a better job. You call mountain climbing a career?

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    rickseg  almost 4 years ago

    Here’s a great Nichols and May skit of a mother calling here rocket scientist son.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKL1tNv__kU

    Happy New Year everyone!

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    ChristineMurphy  almost 4 years ago

    Always good advice.

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    FassEddie  almost 4 years ago

    Oh no. My Mom always had lousy advice.

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    john  almost 4 years ago

    Some peoples’ advice consistently serves themselves far better than it does anyone else.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    This wisdom is null and void once you get married. Listen to your father on that one.

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    tygrkhat40  almost 4 years ago

    Arthur Dent: It’s times like this I wish I’d listened to my mother.

    Ford Prefect: Why, what did she say?

    Arthur: I don’t know, I wasn’t listening!

    —Douglas Adams, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

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    Louis in Joliet  almost 4 years ago

    I always left my cat in charge of the children when I was away. I told the kids they needed to what ever the cat was doing. If the cat was sleeping it was nap time.

    I am trying that same strategy with me while working from home. For some reason I am not getting a lot of work done.

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    ChessPirate  almost 4 years ago

    One of the many, many, many, many funny bits in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6b6nbeQCPA

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    marilynnbyerly  almost 4 years ago

    It depends on the mother and the topic. My mom had excellent advice except for physics. She didn’t know spit about physics.

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    wndflower1  almost 4 years ago

    sadly- daddy unknown, mama in rehab——call your nana

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    willie_mctell  almost 4 years ago

    The cat is grooming itself and ignoring the blathering human. Not that I’ve ever taken the unsolicited advice that cats offer.

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    mistercatworks  almost 4 years ago

    Sometimes wisdom from your parents surfaces unexpectedly from the subconscious. Whenever I am on the road and buy a small bottle of water at a filling station, I clearly hear my Father’s voice:

    “You paid a dollar for WHAT?”

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    DCBakerEsq  almost 4 years ago

    Mother Baker says I should spend less time on GoComics and more time on my next book, but I told her people depend on my sage observations and uncanny witticisms.

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    christelisbetty  almost 4 years ago

    I’m not sure how many months it took me to finally stop reaching for the phone, to check in on Mom, after she had passed.

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Oh yeah… if I had listened to my mother…

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    Bicycle Dude  almost 4 years ago

    Mom’s been gone since 1987, I still miss her and our phone calls. Not sure how she’d feel about this past year, but given she grew up in a small Midwest town during the Great Depression and WWII, she’d do her part to keep the pandemic at bay by following the science of wearing a mask, practicing social distancing and getting vaccinated when it was safe to do so. For her, it would be the patriotic thing to do.

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    locake  almost 4 years ago

    The one thing I tell my daughter all the time is Start Saving Money. But she ignores me and spends every cent she earns.

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    MCProfessor  almost 4 years ago

    Needs more cats.

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    Buoy  almost 4 years ago

    My Mom is always right because I love her dearly, but I don’t always listen to what she says.

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    paperphrique  almost 4 years ago

    Especially if she tells you to put on the damn mask.

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    bakana  almost 4 years ago

    Yes, Mother.

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    keenanthelibrarian  almost 4 years ago

    Otherwise, no serenity for you!!

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    scmods2005  almost 4 years ago

    I feel like this would’ve been better as a Mother’s Day comic.

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    sandpiper  almost 4 years ago

    It’s day 2, 2021, and I have read all the above. I sympathize with the neglected and wish their family relations had been more satisfying in some way. I was lucky my folks cared enough to watch over me all their lives. While they directed my early years, they did not try to control or override my choices after I reached legal age – 21 in those days. In later years, distance meant fewer visits and less contact with us and their grandchildren, but they never ‘lost’ us as a family. I treasure those years which ended in 1994 with mother’s passing. I regret more people have not the same kinds of memories.

    Thing is, if the smallest cohesive unit in society, the family, cannot hold together for whatever reason, what hope has the largest?

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