Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 01, 2016
Transcript:
Both sides held firm to theah beliefs... Penguin: You're the anomaly here! Polar Bear: No, you are! ...And I was stuck with the unenviable task of tryin' to find common ground fah these polah opposites... Polar bear: Predator-prey..end of story. Winner takes all! Penguin: We outnumber you a thousand to one...majority rules1 ...So I went into King Solomon mode. Eddie: Yaw're both right... ...And yaw're both wrong. Since the neutral site fah the meetin' was at the equatah, the hostilities quickly thawed...so to speak. Joe: So...the moral of the story is...? Eddie: Keep me out of *@?#&!! Political ahgu-ments. Flo: Wahds to live and stay sane by, Eddie.
Varnes over 8 years ago
Bruno, that’s what I was thinking too….Right out of the chute a major pun….The look on the bear’s face, and the attitude of the bear is great. I love the concept of a polar bear arguing a point…Not exactly what they’re known for……
Varnes over 8 years ago
Wiley, I forgot to compliment you on having Pauly jump off Eddies shoulder and run away the other day…Nice touch…It really cracked me up…I can’t remember him moving much…..
Say What? Premium Member over 8 years ago
Such topics tend to break the ice at parties (or melt, in this case).
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 8 years ago
They aren’t polar opposites, though. They are polar equals. They provide opposition to equatorial warming, absorbing the heat produced by the more direct sunlight striking the equatorial, tropical and temperate regions. As they cool the circulating seas, they reduce water vapor production and thus cause inland aridity, which increases the production of thermal energy from solar energy. This degrades their heat sink capabilities, which will cause the seas to warm and generate water vapor, pushing it into far reaches and amassing as fresh water inland glaciers, improving the heat sink capabilities of the higher latitudes and pushing their effect into lower latitudes by extrusion. This reduces the surface area able to convert solar energy into thermal energy and increases the surface area converting thermal energy into kinetic energy.One may say it does not, however. One may be wrong.
Reppr Premium Member over 8 years ago
At the “equatah” they are both anomaly.
Douglas Haire over 8 years ago
And, yet, he cannot keep from commentary… Wiley, that is.
whiteheron over 8 years ago
Whoa, whoa, whoa…..there’s morals to politics???? Who knew?
puddleglum1066 over 8 years ago
The first necessary step to ending a republic is to convince people that anything “political” is off-limits for polite conversation. We should be ready for the second necessary step any day now.
dabugger over 8 years ago
Well, letting the natural of the equator solve the tangle of opposites.
sidehillcodger over 8 years ago
What happens to North and South? Do they flip when the Earth flips into it’s new equator? (Sometime next year….the Mayan (long count) Calendar forgot Leap Year) B-)
Ermine Notyours over 8 years ago
Penguins range north almost to the equator, so the bear is the one who is out of place, unless he’s at a zoo. He’s just goin’ with the floe.
Fenshaw over 8 years ago
Someone’s got to say it, I guess it’s my job. Penguins and Polar Bears are not predator and prey. They live at opposite ends of the Earth, have never seen each other, and wouldn’t know what to do if they met. Orcas and Penguins, now that’s another story.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 8 years ago
Eddie is sane?
UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member over 8 years ago
I guess Flo dropped the “No Politics” policy.
doryboatman over 8 years ago
I love this comic when ever Flo and Captn Eddie are in it.I can almost hear that Down East accent. Always guaranteed a laugh and lot of times some conventional wisdom
Fan o’ Lio. over 8 years ago
Perhaps we should ask our pal Linguist who is currently hiding out in Ecuador if he has seen any penguins or polar bears lately.
lindz.coop Premium Member over 8 years ago
Well, apparently because Donald Trump hasn’t done anything sufficiently newsworthy (read outrageous) this week, NPR was reduced to discussing his days spent in wrestling on the morning news today.