Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 29, 2024

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    rmremail  6 months ago

    Taking out the trash is a never ending task as well.

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    sirbadger  6 months ago

    Ten years later, the trash weighs more than this stone.

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    Enter.Name.Here  6 months ago

    NOW we know the truth. He pushes that thing up the hill on a near-impossible task just to get away from her nagging. Some things are more torturous than others.

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    davidob  6 months ago

    Rock on, baby.

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    Imagine  6 months ago

    That trash ain’t goin’ nowhere.

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    PoodleGroomer  6 months ago

    Hold this for a minute while I get the trash. Pickup this week is on Friday.

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    Kaputnik  6 months ago

    Not the point of this comic at all, but it just occurred to me that the grand old Duke of York might have been a descendant of Sisyphus.

    The grand old Duke of York,

    He had ten thousand men,

    He marched them up to the top of a hill,

    Then he marched them down again.

    And when they were up they were up,

    And when they were down they were down,

    And when they were only half way up,

    They were neither up nor down.

    Then he had them take out the trash.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member 6 months ago

    It’s wind-borne vapor when he is pushing it, though. Don’t forget your keys

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    William Bednar Premium Member 6 months ago

    Or, his wife?

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    robcarroll1213  6 months ago

    Leave him alone…he’s on a roll!

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    sandpiper  6 months ago

    Relax, Momma. This is gonna take a while.

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    Znox11  6 months ago

    If this were Sisyphus’ wife, she would be telling him he was doing it wrong, exactly how to do it…and then tell him to take out the trash.

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    cfkelley  6 months ago

    Sounds a lot like my wife.

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    nancyb creator 6 months ago

    Eternal Nagging was added to make this a true Hell.

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    will.pittenger1  6 months ago

    All he has to do is move aside and let the ball roll down over her. No more complaining.

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    Diat60  6 months ago

    Sisyphus spends Eternity rolling that ball and the piled up garbage has formed the world we live in today. On and on with no end in sight.

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    dot-the-I  6 months ago

    Given that his mother was royalty (queen), she is depicted as slumming it here.

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    SavannahJim Premium Member 6 months ago

    Mom, or wife, or girlfriend… and you know she walked past the trash can and the bins to follow him halfway up that hill.

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    alexius23  6 months ago

    Rock on!

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    mindjob  6 months ago

    Now he knows how a dung beetle feels

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    GreenT267  6 months ago

    No one seems to remember why Sisyphus had to roll the boulder up the mountain — it was because he was a cheat and a cruel trickster and the gods finally got ticked off enough to punish him. That is why tasks that are laborious and futile are called Sisyphean. Aptly applied to the trash issue as well.

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    ElwoodP  6 months ago

    Does Sisyphus have a cat?

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    Can't Sleep  6 months ago

    “And I need you to clean the litter box.”

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    mistercatworks  6 months ago

    She must be thinking of a dung beetle.

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    Bilan  6 months ago

    Lay the laundry out on the ground. When the boulder rolls back down .. voila … the ironing is done.

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    cracker65  6 months ago

    And then he moves and let’s the boulder roll backwards.

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    theoldidahofox  6 months ago

    Or wife!

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    Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member 6 months ago

    “But Mom, every time I take the trash out to the curb, it just rolls back to the house!”

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    keenanthelibrarian  6 months ago

    She’s going to be waiting a long time; the gods’ penalty for Sisyphus to do THAT particular job was for it to last for eternity. Apparently he’s still doing it.

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    locake  6 months ago

    I’m female and I always take out the trash in my house. My husband will take out a half empty bag, and ignore the smaller waste baskets in the house. I empty all the trash into one bag and take that out.

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    JH&Cats  6 months ago

    I (used to) take my trash to work, and add it to the office’s bagful to make a fully filled bag each week. The town issues way more permit stickers per household than I need per year, so I’m happy to use mine for the combined haul, while reducing the packaging.

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    fourteenpeeves  6 months ago

    How did that one end up anyway?

    And did they play Strauss’ PERPETUUM MOBILE while he was pushing the rock?

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  6 months ago

    Isn’t this just a metaphor for growing up.

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