Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 19, 2020

I’ve had job interviews like this.

Where? In the White House apparently.

He’s fishing.

“Buried as an ancient fossil embedded in shale. You?”

Wearing a ratty hair piece and causing bigly division in the most power nation on the planet.

I do sometimes wonder if some cartoonists actually think that’s the way evolution works. Then I think “Nahhh, NObody could be that ignorant, so this is just a useful trope that’s a short cut to the punch line.” But then I do start to wonder.

So: How many of the ’toonists at GoComics think evolution can happen to an individual critter?

Pretty evolved furniture.

As an ancestor.

Evolving Fish: “Searching for other worlds that can support life when this world becomes unfit to live”.

Eating you!

In some ones gas tank

“Extinct”.

“Eating you, broiled with olive oil and lemon juice.”

Aristotle? Your name’s Harry. Johannes? Your name’s John.(Ellis Island)

Fighting to survive.

Dismissed in the interviewer’s mind as an obvious tail-dragger even before posing the standard questioning.

From the neck up pardoning a lot of fellow crooks in 2020.

This is one of the dumbest questions I’m asked on an interview: “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”

I go on to tell the interviewer, that my immediate concern is to master the job and make the team connections to be successful FOR the company.

“As for the long term plan, asking me where I will be in five years is like asking a football coach, ‘What play will you call five downs from now?’ It depends on where the team is and what the situation is five downs from now.

I don’t know where the company will be five years from now. Hopefully, the problem you are hiring me to solve today will be old history by then.

I’ll be ready to do whatever you need me to do five years from now.

Ask me this question again in four years."

5 million years? Moot point. How about surviving as a country in the next 9 months? And how untimely is it that the time until the election is about the same as the length of a pregnancy. Heaven only knows what this birth will bring. Of course, there is one word that might fit, but it’s already been suggested in lots of comments.

Uh, as a fossil in The middle of the land that will be uncovered during the natural subsidence of this particular ocean.

I’m thinking fish didn’t foresee that in 5 million years his essence would be powering a Chevy in a NASCAR venue.

Cut into sticks, breaded and served with a side of tartar sauce.

I used to hate that question. I always wanted to say my true thoughts, that I’d be enjoying my lottery winnings and not still working at some inane job.

Dead.

Under the newly risen Iberian rocky mountains?

Mankind is a failed rung on the evolutionary ladder. It’s time to give another species their chance.

Minor corporate sycophant.

A marine dinosaur was discovered recently that had evolved to be able to go onto land, then it returned to the ocean. Smart dinosaur.

As a fossil if I’m lucky.

made me laugh :)

Going bankrupt 6 times, then doing the same to whatever country elects me king!

Working for Bumble Bee Tuna.

“Where do you see yourself in five million years?”

“Working for scale.”

About as stupid a question as the perennial “Where do you see yourself in five years” during an employment interview.

Voting a S.O.B. out of office.

Finally getting to visit the Vorlon Homeworld.

Ossified.

“Getting in touch with my inner fish.”

Getting Revenge on those darned Dolphins for eating Great, G,G,G,G,G,G,G,G,Great Granddad.

Looks like one of those evolving-door situations.