Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 26, 2011

@Radish, sewer or later. (sooner or later)

Dibs on the iPads! (They’re great for Frisbee golf in the park.)

Excellent strip. I’m not sure if this guy would qualify for a Darwin Award or not. I think that requires some sort of highly intentional dumb act. This would simply be stupid.

That’s why they’re called “smart” phones. Don’t see any of THEM in the hole! This reminds me of the idjits on the freeways driving 10-15 MPH over the limit, changing lanes, with one of the damn things pressed to their ear.

It would be funny if it hadn’t actually happened two years ago. Google “Alexa Longueira” and read the stupid but true story.

You want sad// Our local Amish farmers are starting to carry cell phones and use ATM machines. Not long before farmer Yoder will be twittering from a barn raising party.

My ex-girlfriend (we’re still friends) will not usually answer a phone call, but will reply quickly to a text. (Go figure, I never could). I texted her one day, but she didn’t understand what I was asking. Rather that type a long, complicated message, I sent, “Can I call you?” Her texted reply? “No, driving.”

Huh?

don’t text and walk

LOL @thebird55 and bluskies. It works with stupid phones too. It’s just so tempting, when I’m walking along and receive a text, to keep walking while looking at the screen.

They encourage people to develop severe separation anxiety disorders. Gotta be connected to someone at all times.

What’s funny is watching people getting on escalators in the mall, and not understanding right away why they’ve fallen flat on their faces.

Remind me to nail up the board in the back fence. He’s coming through the man hole next winter.

Amazing but simple truth in today’s strip.

Look before you Nook !!!

Like lemmings to a fountain.

I had a guy change lanes in front of me without signaling and then brake check me. I climbed real hard on the binders while looking in the rear view mirror wondering if I was going to get rear ended. It was a CHP officer. As soon as he could the CHP officer got around me and hit the lights on the guy that chopped me. That was a satisfying moment.

…at least he isn’t driving….

Now – how do I put this together???

Incident happened in Staten Island, NY where the law holds that an injured person may not recover for injuries caused by a defect (i.e., an open manhole cover) that’s “open and obvious”—the question then becomes is an open manhole cover “open and obvious” ? I would certainly think so. And for what it’s worth, a check of the New York Court data base reflects that though the family filed a Notice of Claim with NYC they never filed an actual lawsuit in the New York courts…

Again.

I laugh at this because where I work, you are not allowed to walk and text.

Yessss!

“think if it as evolution in action” Niven & Pernell in “Oath of Fidelity”.

“It would be funny if it hadn’t actually happened two years ago.”

As tcayer said, it’s STILL funny.

‘Tragedy’ is when I cut myself shaving.‘Comedy’ is when YOU fall in a manhole and die. — Mel Brooks

It’d be the same reason they use their PIN number to get into the ATM machine. They also have to print OUT or OFF something, instead of just printing it from their computer.

Like “hot water heater”?

Stuff like this has already happened. I recall one girl that was walking along in the mall and fell into one of the fountains while busy with her cell phone. Last I recall, she was suing the Mall because the employees laughed at her.

Personally, I would have busted a gut. Really weird how culling the herd works these days. Those that should be culled sue instead putting those that do well out of business. So those we need gone, thrive instead.

Write one about that Wiley. Try not to get sued in the process, though.

This is about the maintenance people who failed to barricade the pedestrian ends of the crosswalk, isn’t it? Where’s OSHA when they really are needed?

Don’t I wish…

As it is Wiley, is the Man hole cover over the BEAR pit??

And the nominees for the Darwin Award are:…

the guy who invented the first cellphone almost got hit by a car the first time he was using it outside! Shows how stupid people get with their smartphones.

Actually the Darwin award goes to the road crew for not putting barriers totally around the open hole. It’s funny but too close to work. Safe Holidays everybody, Fear me for I am L&I!

S’happening. Evolving before our very eyeballs.

Thanks Wiley! Keep culling the herd…….

I think I’m going to go and set some traps

Better than plain media meeting “social darwinism”.

You don’t get it. Wiley is at his funniest when he takes real life to absurd extremes. The strip isn’t as funny if it just matches reality.

Download the apps…Count the steps…No time for maps…Over the reps…To GPS delivery…And digital freedom…And so called revery,,,And quiet mayhem…Till posted data fact…And the peace within…With data well cracked…Without possibility of sin…

It’s not so much the step, it’s the landing!

Unfortunately, all too true – here in Calgary, two pedestrians died in a single week earlier this month by getting hit by commuter trains or buses while wearing headphones and using electronic devices – adding to others earlier in the year.

Darwin always wins!

…and how I wish this would really happen to some of those people that walk around thinking their phone is the center of the universe.

With that manhole as my supplier, I could make fortune reselling those tablets on eBay.

Beautiful. Thanks Wiley.

Linguistic Darwinism is going backwards:it’s one medium, lots of media.So, make it Social media MEET Darwinism