Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 22, 2023

I think he would have been better added to Miranda’s cauldron

You have to feed the monster every once in a while.

Crypto-bros do have that cult like air about them, i’ve noticed.

Did Wiley get caught up in some cryptocurancy failure?

Dang! I need a lever like that … I wonder if I can rig one for my phone too … and my email … hmmmm.

I love the Gravesytes.

Horace & Miranda (like Gomez & Morticia) – so friendly and welcoming.

I heard about a pair of shoes that developed AI; they stole a car and ran it off a bridge into a river. They drowned. The priest said they were all right, though, they were happy, they’d gone to a better place. ’Cause, you know, shoes have soles …

“If you pay me $5,000, for this small cartoon JPG of a monkey and a certificate saying that you are the real owner of this image, you’ll be welcomed into the land of billionaires”. And they wonder why they have trouble getting people to take them seriously. (Yeah, I know that’s NFTs. Same stuff, different pile.)

From crypto currency to in the crypt currently.

What? No man bun?

How about solar salespeople?

Looks to me the same as asking $99 for collecting cards of a mighty swollen ego, aka A Very Stable Genius, aka A F*cking Moron.

How much does it cost to get one of those installed? I could probably find a local contractor for the trap door, but where do you order the monster? I just checked, Amazon™ doesn’t stock ’em.

Don’t solicitors use e-mail and texts nowadays?

From “The Tempest in a Stew Pot”:

“O, wonder!

How many creepy creatures are there here!

How delicious mankind is! O grave new world,

That has such people in’t.”

(Miranda, Axe 5, Obscene 1)

“A foole and his money is soone parted.” Dr. John Bridges.

It’s been quite sometime since I’ve seen those characters.

A college buddy of mine told me a story about an interesting experience his family had with doorstep evangelizers. His dad was out mowing the lawn one day when a pair of Jehovah’s Witnesses stopped by and wanted to give him their presentation. He said he was busy at the moment, but maybe it was something the whole family would like to hear, so could they come by again Thursday evening at 7 PM? They said they would.

The following day my friend’s mom was headed out the door to go grocery shopping when a pair of Mormon missionaries were walking up, also wanting to make their pitch. But she said she couldn’t right now, could they come back, oh, say, Thursday night at 7? Of course they could.

So the appointed hour arrived, and so did the two pairs of crusaders, and there was some laffing and sorting and explaining, and eventually it was decided that the two teams would take turns giving their spiels. So the first pair would say something, and then some family member would turn to the other team and say “What do you think of that?”, and the answer would be some painfully polite version of “No, they’re full of shït.”, and this apparently went on for several hours.

My buddy said it was the best night’s free entertainment they ever had.

Do I remember this from The Munsters?

Now he’s just dessert

Religious zealot, snake-oil salesman, populist politician….what’s the diff? (And I hope digital currencies crash sooner than later so everyone can a see it was a Ponzi scheme dressed up with tech, and stop having people’s money siphoned from them).

Wiley, agree with you 100%.

I nominate this day’s strip as the best of Sunday Jan. 22 2023

Ahhhhh! Finally. . .justice!!!!

Is she where the Miranda Rights came from???

what a delightful way to get rid of a scam call – that’s certainly what I have in mind when i ignore a scam call or text

I wonder if Horace knows Travis over in Scary Gary’s house?

Was his name N. Ron? I think I remember him. What a louse

NFT = Never Financially Trustworthy … or … Not F-ing True!

Did you know there is no such word as “gullible” in the dictionary? :)

Story from today’s news: cryptoqueen of OneCoin absconded with $4 billion from investors.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/22/business/ruja-ignatova-cryptoqueen-fbi-most-wanted-cec/index.html

No, it was a secular religious zealot from one of those extremist climate change groups.

Horace is so thoughtful. I do hope the creature doesn’t get indigestion.

We need more Graevsytes!

yawn—another bald guy with a pony tail! Never a good sign!

I need one of those.

I can install a monster pit for you! All for $99.95, Get rid of those pesky salesmen and religious nuts not to mention pain in the rear relatives! all for $99.95!! lol

Haven’t seen the Gravesytes in a while. This one is spot on.

Sic semper cryptocurrencyists! (aka Ponzi-schemists, as noted above)

I remember where people programmed bank computers to skim off the third or fourth decimal place of deposits and put it in another account. It didn’t affect the receiver’s account, but quickly garnered wealth for the person owning that account. It was quickly made illegal, and I’m wondering how bitcoin mining is any different.

It has been a long time since we have seen the Gravesytes.

If only…

Long time, no see, Graevsytes!!!

“LET ME GUESS…ANOTHER RELIGIOUS ZEALOT WANTING US TO CONVERT AND JOIN THEIR CULT?”

(imagines a different version of this part of the dialogue of this cartoon)

LET ME GUESS…ANOTHER RELIGIOUS ZEALOT WANTING US TO CONVERT AND JOIN A CULT?

Well that bankman is now fried… calamari, that is. rimshot

This is what the WEF wants to do, and then they can turn off your money if you disobey.