Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 03, 2024

Maybe just stick with beer.

That’s just Cuckoo!

His eminence might pause to consider offering up a prayer of gratitude that Cuckoo Bishop didn’t choose lederhosen to express his love for his heritage.

How about a tiny German sports car driving a course around the outside of his head.

Cuckoo clocks are not Bavarian. They come from the Black Forest which is in Baden-Württemberg.

His Eminence can excommunicate the egregious one!

Cuckoo clocks are NOT very Bavarian. That’s more of a Swabian or Badenser or Swiss thing…

Could be worse. Could be a fancy stein full of beer.

Of course, a cardinal.

The clock may be a bad idea, but the wurst thing he could do is to grill some brats for His Eminence.

Seems timely.

That explains why he’s always on time.

I live in Bavaria, Cuckoo Clocks are made in the Black Forest which is Baden Wurttemberg. So he’s Schwaebisch.

Beer Krug would have been better.

“Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” – Orson Wells as Harry Lime in “The Third Man”

Especially during mass and compline.

Considering what mischief Germans have gotten up to in the last 100 years, this seems harmless and inoffensive.

Cuckoo clocks are the ultimate kitch.

So, is his hat right twice a day?

Did anyone else automatically think of the song from Sound of Music?

Is popping out to say, “Cuckoo”

I wish the priests had them when I was a kid to let them know that it was time to wrap up the sermon.

All this time I thought the cuckoo clock came from Switzerland thanks to the Orson Welles/Harry Lime quote from “The Third Man”:

“After all it’s not that awful. You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock…”

Sure it’s not an unsubtle comment on the mental health of a certain someone?

… You represent the church. People who see you may think we’re all …

Having survived a Catholic childhood, including a near miss when the priest (who later was killed in prison) asked me to be an altar boy, I think Cuckoo is the perfect avatar for the entire organization.

Ah, the Bishop of Cookoo.

Pope Benedict did it with a liter :-)

It certainly speeds up the sermon.

“Or at least, keep the correct time.”

Now that’s creativity!

LOLOL!

Somewhat off topic here, a bit of biological terminology. Your mouth contains several different kinds of teeth, but the two I call your attention to are called bicuspids and tricuspids, depending on whether they have 2or 3 rounded points on them. There’s something similar going on with the valves in your heart, one of which is called the tricuspid. But the one that might have been known as the bicuspid is instead called the mitral, because of its resemblance to a bishop’s 2-pointed hat, called a miter.

Is that a cardinal on his miter? How apropros.

The archbiship has finally gone coo-coo.

That mitre fits rather snugly onto his pointy head …

Given the first mechanical clock (a water clock) was invented by a monk to allow the monastery to know when it was time for various prayers and services, I would think ‘his eminence’ would want to encourage everyone to have such a public timekeeping service.

Beer time already!

Okay,he’ll walk around with bratwurst sticking out of both ears….

Shortly after this exchange, the first beer hat was invented.