Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 16, 2009

I think I’m going to vomit.

Now they are scared for life . Except maybe Diana .

she’s a pistol! wish i’d a known her then! also, haven’t they heard of body paint?

Who’da thunk it?

Sex , drugs and naked rock & roll . “yesterday when I was young”…..

NOT a mental image I needed. Sorry, Cleo, but I’m not into nekked folks.

If you can remember Woodstock - you weren’t there - A quote I’ve heard many places

TMI! TMI!

…and i’m not referring to a nuclear (non) disaster…

Um. Two questions:

How old is Joe?

Have there ever been any references to Joe’s father?

@Fairportfan I’d say Joe’s in his late thirties (at a guess) but he has an older brother who’d be about the right age (and likely to be even more horrified) …

Don’t recall their father ever being mentioned tho’ …

Come to think of it however I occurs to me that there’s a lot of family similarity (in a gender reversed sort of way) between Bob & Joe and Danae & Kate — from attitude through hair colour … and maybe single parent of the opposite sex too.

Thank you, Wiley, for loading us up with that image.

its wonderful. i still wish i had dumped the job and gone!

I’m with Danae… let’s thow on some mud and have some fun… she’s obviously covered her little naked body with mud outside before by saying… see, I told ya so.

Great one. The things we’d never believe about our parents!

pearlandpeach, that would’ve been a great story!

I LOVE THIS ONE!!!!!!! :D

Hey, it doesn’t bother me, I’m not a prud. I love naked living. Skin was here first. lol Way to go, Wiley.

I remember, many years ago, i was out of town for Fourth of July, came home, turned on CNN Headline News, and caught a story about the Rainbow Family Gathering (in Texas that year), and hearing that a young woman from Louisiana had been injured in a confrontation with locals who objected to “dirty hippies” in the National Forest (this would have been 1986 0r 1987, i forget).

I said “Oh - good - Stacy said she wasn’t going to be able to go this year, so that can’t have been her.” (Stacy is a friend from Folsom LA who, despite being ten years younger than i (born 1958 to my 1948) was more of a hippie than i ever could have been, let alone was. I was sort of honourary daddy to her younger daughter (Julia), who was the child of a friend of mine who couldn’t get sown to LA as often as i could).

And then they said “…even though it’s not Woodstock, there’s still nudity and tie-dye…” and ran a shot of Stacy’s older daughter Brandi in a tie-dye shirt, carrying a naked Miss Julia.

At which point i freaked and began trying every way i could think of to see if it were Stacy, who would have gotten right in the jerks’ faces, who was injured…

(It wasn’t, but i didn’t find that out for sure for another two weeks.)

DUDE! You’re lucky I hadn’t eaten yet!

They all look the same when you turn them upside down.

MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!!!

40 years ago “Mom” could have been quite a hottie, its just that many children don’t like to think of their parents as being sexually active…. or even sexy! I remember a friend telling me she was adopted because her parents “wouldn’t do That! !! LOL

What’s done is done, but I hope Grandma doesn’t try that now.

Since when is being covered with mud being sexy??? lol

Oh, Mom! You didn’t SAVE those pictures? Have you no shame? Can I sneak a peak?

That was definitely funny, and I agree that Grannie was probably quite the looker in 1969. I’ve always had a thing for red heads.

Another thing I like is this is one of the few comic gags where the generations are portrayed correctly. Most would have used the demographically improbable gag of Dad being the Woodstock veteran.

Perhaps Flo was there with Cap’n Eddie, who made one of his rare inland excursions…

…and every generation believes it is the first to discover sex.

Oh, the absurdity of “My parents would have never done that!”

Methinks Danae shall become her grandmother. A raven-haired version, but still, her grandmother. And it shall be glorious. But it does explain a few things…

Nicely done Wiley. This one’s classic.

As are some of the responses!

in response to folks thinking I was making fun of my elders or something about ‘pushing sixty’ if you were around woodstock… I AM sixty-two , my point was…..given a choice, I rather be 25…even given the uncertain times and computer driven intrusiveness ….. maybe I just want to jump in a time machine and have another shot at it…. my favorite novel along these lines is: “Replay” by Ken Grimwood

Go, Grannie, Go! It was probably body paint, not mud. Much more fun to put on & take off……

had i been at Woodstock, i would have loved rehashing the memories (about five years too soon for me, though).

What a grand storyline, haha. Loving the great comments it triggers too. I’m the right vintage for Woodstock, but don’t think I was there.

Bdaysuit, it depends on who you are covered in mud with…. And for what it’s worth, I’ve got pictures of my mom in her early twenties, around the time she was married. She’s was always a hottie! I can’t imagine her naked and covered with mud, but if it had happened, the men around would have liked it a lot.

Hipster

That’s sick AND I’m eating!

I think I was there. I think I knew her. I think maybe I know how you got here Joe?

I remember a Playboy cartoon of some boys looking at the anthology of Playmates and telling their mother that she really was a knockout when she posed.

That bleeep mud got into everything.

[checking the Life magazine Woodstock photo collection on Google Images.]

…their mother that she really was a knockout when she posed.

And the cartoon of a kid’s room with a 1950s centerfold on the wall; Dad tells a friend “We can’t make him take it down. It’s his grandmother.”

nighthawks – Maybe no need for a time machine . If you wont another shoot at it & your shooter is ok , jump in your Chevy van . Head out today to Elderly folks paradise , it’s called Florida .

What “Replay”do you think he’s on now ?

Grandmothers can be very sexy. Guess how I know.

@ Joe Allen Doty lol Yes . Long ago , are the days when I had won first place in my school spelling bee . ( true story ) Alas … my ability’s have become a bit rusty , from lack of use . Thinking on it , I suppose they could have been the one , then the other .

grazer said

I’m the right vintage for Woodstock, but don’t think I was there.

i know i wasn’t - i’d been in Viet Nam (non-combat, at te Navy’s Cam Ranh Ba6y communications station) for about a month.

Very Slick Mom! And I don’t mean Grace….

And remember, if God had intended that we go around naked…

…we would have been BORN naked!

… and if God had wanted us to fly he would have made us smart enough to build flying machines.

But seriously, some of you folks have some serious problems if you are really disgusted at just the mere thought of a bit of nudity.

Flo is a GILF.