Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 08, 2022

without screaming, indeed!

Just have another bahbon or two

No mystery that early man tried eating anything and everything. Something edible was probably discovered hundreds of different times.

NASA doesn’t want anybody to know that a cat named Paulie was the first to walk on the moon.

I’m familiar with solar winds. Moon winds not so much.

Getting through a day without screaming is kind of easy. Just tune out the news for a day. Either that, or develop a sense of humor that finds extreme stupidity to be funny. Donald Trump claiming to have done more for Christianity than even Jesus Christ, as one example of the latter. https://is.gd/bSg43e

Must have been one hell of a storm

Artichokes are easy. All plants have been tried for edibility. Letting animals eat them first may test for toxicity.

I wanna know who was the first to drink cow milk? Probably warm milk too. That took guts, and possibly starvation to do.

Knowing Eddie – this is probably all true.

Smoking baffles me. Whoever thought that it would be a good idea to stick a bundle of dried leaves in their mouth and set fire to them? And who would have stuck with it until they hit on tobacco?

It’s cashews that baffle me. People knew that they’re poisonous. But somebody wondered if they would be okay if they cooked them first.

Captain Eddie reminds me of pretty typical Maine characters like the guy who was drunk and got escorted out of the bar after bothering patrons. A few hours later a police patrol found someone hiding under a blanket while sitting in a chair right in front of the place. A-yup, same guy and now he’s charged with trespass and a parole violation. The pictures of him in the chair and under the blanket are about as ridiculous as you’d imagine. Not the brightest card in the deck as in even a 5 year old could play better at hide & seek.

My brother has similar experiences after a day on his boat with a twelve-pack of a certain Pennsylvania Lager.

In the next to the last panel, can anyone else see kind of a dog face in the moon helmet? Captain Eddie’s nose is the dog’s forehead. His mouth becomes an eye of the dog. Markings below and to the right of his nose and chin become an eyelash, nose, and mouth for the dog’s face.)

Happy Mother’s Day to all.

Happy Mothers Day ladies.

Coconuts. How hungry was somebody when they said, “I wonder if there’s something I can eat inside this thing?”

Mom probably thought a lot of what I got into as a youngster was over the moon, but she always made sure I was safely grounded before I got into real trouble.

YEA, MOM!!

How silly. Everyone knows it was Prof. Cavor.

Fishing man speak with big wind. Big wind have much dirt but grow no grass.

Has anyone read Wagging the Moondoggie by the late Dave McGowan? food for thoughthttps://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/

I’ve always thought the same thing about Pineapples….

Wait, I know this one. It was Charles Thistletongue. He had a lot of problems until he realized you had to cook them.

Darn shame Cap’n Eddie didn’t think to bring his Polaroid. He’d a had some nice pictures.

One small step for Eddie, one giant headache for NASA.

I have often wondered…actually pondered…how hungry was the first person to reach into the mud flats of the Chesapeake Bay sift out an oyster…crack it open pull out that slimy salt salt-water bivalve molluscs and say to themself…’’wow..this looks good to eat….

Really…. How hungry was that person…….k

I’ve often wondered the same about oysters.

Anyone try polk salad? Me neither

I, too, have frequently wondered how hungry someone was to figure out artichokes!

Coffee: Fruit of a shrub; allowed to ferment; dried; seeds removed and roasted until almost but not quite burnt; ground; extracted with hot water; extract consumed. Who figured this out?

An air lock for his pipe! Genius!

He just sailed his boat to the Sea of Tranquility.

I wonder why he kept a space helmet on his boat.

It never happened. His cat is not with him on the moon.

Not a Noreaster, flood on Moon River.

Like a lot agricultural plants, the modern artichoke is very different from its wild ancestor. That is a type of thistle, and was probably originally harvested for its stems. So there wasn’t a brave soul that tried a globe artichoke in the wild, as there weren’t any. There was a video featuring a guy going on about how impossible it was for bananas to have developed naturally. He was right, but for the wrong reason. Wild bananas are barely edible for humans, and the modern ones are result of thousands of years of cultivation.

Indigo was discovered by finding that the leaves turned blue when animals marked their territory on it.

I know it’s a conspiracy theory, but I’ve always wondered …

Reminds me of Peter Hamilton’s Commonwealth Saga, where the scientists who created a wormhole generator beat the Mars rocket mission there. I think the astronauts returned via the wormhole rather than take the long and risky ride home.

Curly of The Three Stooges seconds the remarks about artichokes.