Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 28, 2024

Captain Eddie is wise not to get involved.

As soon as you say "Nature made (category) (anything), you’re ASKING to have it come back on you!

PS: One of our absolute worst restaurant brunch experiences was when the cook didn’t show up and the prep-cook tried to take over. Fixing one plate at a time… one PART at a time. And then working on the next plate for that table. And so forth. It took them over an hour to get to ours which was about #12 on the list. And yeah: This was organized so you ordered AND PAID and then awaited your food… or we’d have been SO outa there. I did ask for our money back and was refused.

Nice smoke ring.

In most cases, multi tasking simply means doing several things badly at the same time. There is special dispensation for parenting though.

I read somewhere that it’s possible to do more than one thing at a time pretty well as long as no two of the things need the attention of the same area of the brain at the same time. No idea if that’s correct, but at least it sounds sort of reasonable.

notice his pipe smoke in the last frame : )

Does this guy write speeches for VD Chance? (Darn dyslexia) I mean, DJ Dance, um, CD Pants…

Flo rocks.

Wow. Capt’n Eddie knew what Flo’s response was going to be.

Never make the person making your food angry….

Years ago, my novel was read by the daughter of a friend both living with him for a while. The daughter told me my book wasn’t realistic because my main character, a woman, was “man with boobs” because “women weren’t decision makers.”

I later found out the daughter had served in the military where what she said was “common knowledge.”

This strip reminded me of that.

Flo isn’t the cook, she’s just the server. It must be a conspiracy

Petard anyone?

I read a study many years ago in Scientific American on the male and female brain. The scientists gave a group of male and female mathematicians a number of problems to solve.

On paper, their derivations were almost identical. However different areas of the brain “lit up” depending on which bathroom the mathematician used.

Men seemed to have more centralized processing while women’s processing seemed to be more distributed. (Now is the time to make a joke about women being scatterbrained).

Both types of processing have their advantages. Centralized processers can focus better and tend to be more logical, but distributed processers tend to be more creative. The downsides are “target fixation” and the inability to see alternatives and being easily distracted respectively.

Having said all this, the researchers also admitted that there is a lot of cross-over: men who think like women and vice-versa.

The food was fine, but there were 4 girls in the booth next to us. One of them described her date last night in glorious detail…

Now the guy has to ‘eat his own words.’ It’s only fair.

I frequently ask my wife what I can do to help, she always says “Nothing,” because she knows I am so good at it.

…and here we are :)

He was flirting with danger when he started that conversation in front of a woman with a hot pot of coffee. i thought at first, that’s how Flo would get him. Her response was better.

Gospel according to Chauvin, the original chauvanist.

Even Uncle Eddie isn’t THAT oblivious.

And yet a lot of the great chefs are men, and they most likely multi task

I don’t know where the mansplaner got his information, but everywhere I’ve ever worked, if you weren’t a multitasker, you didn’t last long. Even though science says humans can’t multitask.

Like many other commenters I am literally multi-tasking at this very moment…..

Good one, Flo!

He’s lucky Flo didn’t pour the coffee on his head. I guess she couldn’t do that and deliver his egg at the same time.

I was putting lots of groceries away the other day while I talked to my elderly husband. I handed him 1 box of cereal to put in the pantry and he just stood there holding it. He could not listen and do a simple job at the same time. Sad and useless.

That “gotcha” is the best one I’ve seen/read in a long time!!!

Good synergy with today’s “Doonesbury.”

Many were appalled by tRump’s admission of ‘grabbing `em by the *,“ and even his own wife defended it calling it ” boy’s locker room talk". Women are above such things. But then we have Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert doing ‘girls locker room’ acts in a movie theater. So, there’s a difference? Human beings are individual, and each should be judged by their actions, not gender, not race, not anything else. Those making generalizations, characterizations and stereotyping are just using ignorance borne of laziness.

We once went to a restaurant called “Spuds” and they told us they were out of potatoes. We laughed and left.

Humans are terrible multitaskers, no matter what we say.

Wonderful!

“I do one thing. I do it very well, then I move on.”- Charles Emerson Winchester

Men and women were meant to be complimentary.

On a lighter note, whatever happened to Homer, the Reluctant Soul?

Just one more reason Republicans can’t govern.

There is another kind of (lovely) response to this macho assertion in today’s Doonesbury strip.

Shucks, Wiley. Funny as this is, you shouldn’t disappoint your fans by depicting Eddie the Lobstah Man and then not letting him tell another tall tale.

Rim shot

Well played, well played indeed…

Unless we’re talking 2 entirely different activities, such as whistling while you work, “multi-tasking” really means “rapid task switching”. For example, you can’t type and write notes on paper simultaneously.

Multitasking is a myth perpetuated by society.

Like the smiley face in the pipe smoke!!

I do one thing, I do it very well, and then I move on.

Charles Emmerson Wichester III, MASH

I, too, have had some nasty experiences at restaurants. But, here I love the hostess in the cartoon. God love her!

I’m male and have always been a multitasker. I like to find the thing that will fit in the time another task takes to complete. E. g. while I heat a sandwich in the microwave I get out the plate and utensils. While brushing my teeth I do Achilles tendon stretches. I like to get the boring but necessary parts over as fast as possible.

Well Done!!!

Human beings are biologically incapable of multi-tasking. We can do attention switching (which is what we tell ourselves we’re doing when we claim to be multi-tasking) but the reality is that we can only attend to one thing at a time. >

A friendly reminder to the guy in the suit, your breakfast will be better enjoyed if you remove your foot out of your mouth prior to eating.

I ran restaurants for years and I will gladly take a mother to staff any of my businesses. They have a sense of urgency, organization and getting the job done right the first time. Equality for all genders and all people.

I’ve spent enough years in foodservice, I wish I could’ve gotten away with that. Some @$$vv#O<& customers really had it coming.

Leave it to Flo to skewer the Pretentious MAGAt by “Agreeing” with him.

Eddie’s smoke signal speaks for many.

So she’s the cook, also? Multitasking is a computer term and it doesn’t mean doing multiple tasks at the same time. It’s doing one task until there’s a logical stopping point (in computing, it’s usually a hardware interrupt) and then moving on to the next task. Since the computer is fast, it seems like everything happens at once. These days computers have multiple processors and do multiprocessing, which is indeed doing multiple tasks at the same time.

I can attest to the fact, my multi-tasking wife can rearrange my priority list in a heart beat or a bare ankle.

She also put vinegar in his coffee