Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 24, 2021

Far Out Space Nuts anyone?

ICBM

OK, who forgot to flush.

you had 1 job Alexa, 1 JOB, and you blew it!!!

See “The Bedford Incident”

“Sorry. ……………….. Would you like to play a game?”

A ham on rye sandwich is about to get nuked.

Might as well order pizza and some pre-emptive chips.

Having seen what Alexa is (in)capable of, anybody who tied it (her??) in to the launch controls would have to be an idjit.

Cute though.

“Alexa! A Vera Lynn song, please!”

I would dearly love to know which accent he said it in.

Oops.

Lunch control to Major Tom….

My wife’s name is Leeanne. When she asks Alexa to add music to her “Leeanne” playlist, about a third of the time, Alexa offers to create a playlist called “Leon.”

Are you "Siri"ous?

WOPR was paired with Alexa by match.com. Computers should really not date.

“How I stop worrying and learned to love the bomb”

How is it that Alexa has the final word? Be afraid – be very afraid.

Given the nickname of the President’s Nuclear Satchel, same results for, “Alexa, what are the football results?”

Hawaii got a warning that missiles were headed to the islands. It turns out the warning button was next to some other button and the operator hit it by accident.

Even the text mic can’t get it ight! LOL

It’s just Alexa having a blast.

All of Alexa’s information is stored in “the cloud” – in this case a mushroom cloud.

ah, memories of the Far Out Space Nuts…

Alexa has a long road ahead before it or its cohort will ever enter this house. If fact, its road ends at the start of our driveway.

So, AMAZON controls the ICBMs. What might show up on our doorstep?

Ah well, I always thought it was too good to last.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the launch code for the entire nuclear arsenal of the USA was 0000. I mean really, do you want someone to forget it in the excitement?

Oh WOPPR! Now look @ what you’ve done. This is not a nice game of chess.

At least he was not typing with his thumbs, could you imagine how that might be misinterpreted?

That doesn’t look like Steve Carell.

This makes me hungry, I think I will have a grilled cheese for launch.

My Android phone started to talk to me when I was watching Youtube videos on the subject of how to use my phone. The words “OK Google” or “Hey Google” were not in the videos so the voice assistant should not have been activated.

…and so the world ends, not with a bang, but with a mumble.

LMAO!!

The Bedford Incident is a grand movie about a Destroyer and Submarine about that same premise.

I have a mute Alexa. I tried it fir a month. It’s like living with a voicemail tree. It doesn’t understand speech. It knows specific groups of sounds.

you can have friends -——or -—you can correct their grammar

Better hope that the shelters are stocked.

The Pepsi Syndrome. … If someone spills a Pepsi on the control panel of a nuclear power reactor, the panel can short-circuit, and the whole core may melt down.

The Oxford Comma strikes again!

It was just a couple of months ago that Brewster Rockit had a series of strips where he had installed his Lunch button right next to his Launch button.

Since the General didn’t name a target, Alexa just chose Apple HQ. Oh, well.

Oh lordy, too funny Wiley………..

The nuclear missiles are not connected to anything. They still use 8inch disks

Anyone who orders the launch of nuclear weapons should be shot by the closest person who has a gun for treason against Earth.

Because someone had to post it:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Dr.+Strangelove+Ending+Scene&&view=detail&mid=23DEE65F676EC1A2762023DEE65F676EC1A27620&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DDr.%2BStrangelove%2BEnding%2BScene%26FORM%3DVDMHRS

Kinda reminds me of a safety film I had to watch during my first Air Force tech school (in 1974). In one part of the film a pilot and copilot are on the take off roll in what looked like a WWII bomber cockpit. The copilot is looking a bit upset so…..

the pilot says: “Cheer up Charlie”

and the copilot replies: “Roger, gear up”

….followed by the sound of crunching metal. Leaving us with several things to learn from their “experience”.

Rut Row Rorge…..

Well that is what you get hooking everything to the Internet. I am just waiting until some one hacks all the Smart Refrigerators and soils the food inside or hacks all the Smart Washing machines and ruins a lot of clothes. Just because you can hook something to the Internet does not mean you should.

Alexa isn’t really that stupid.

She IS, however, that Malicious.

Anyone else remember Far Out Space Nuts? That’s how Bob Denver accidentally launched the rocket.

I scoff at Alexa! My Echo picks arguments with me… I, of course, am blameless!

Oooooops!!

Reminds me of The Bedford Incident. “If he fires one I’ll fire one.” “Fire one, aye, aye, sir!”

Punctuate the following: that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is