Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 07, 2021

Very few people get taken away when they planned to.

Did he remember to bring the payment to Charon, the boatman on the River Styx?

Yeah! That feeling when the light at the end of the tunnel is behind you.

In the underworld, they’re known as Infernal Revenue. {:-p

Hey, he’s lucky? Death came before taxes for him!

Can’t convince Death by argument – “The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on; nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it”. It’s like trying to convince someone that you deserve to be loved, when he/she simply doesn’t have feelings for you, that way. No way to convince ’em by argument.

The problem with some comics is trying to decipher the creator’s thought process. It took me a bit on this one, but I got it. Luckily on others, the commentors will explain. Sometimes no one has a clue.

That’s why it’s called a “deadline”…

Unfortunately, the only extension death really gives us is a coma. Everything else is a near miss.

It is the terminal for a train on which one is placed at birth. It begins as soon as one is aboard, runs continuously with a few shunts to sidings for great events and new experiences. There track changes but very little view of what’s ahead. There are no stops, no time table, and no conductor. There is no return ticket. The best one can hope for is a good seat in the observation car and a few good companions along the way.

What happens if he falls in? Does he drown? Then what?

The security system at my office building was called Cerberus. The panel with that name on it was right by the stairs. I had to pass it every day on my way to work. And on my way home.

You and Hotblack Desiato.

I’m almost afraid to ask where Charon got the femur he’s using for an oar.

?????

He doesn’t work for the IRS. The IRS works for him.

At that point taxes are the least of his worries.

Hah! Batting .500 by beating the taxman this year.

Somewhere over the rainbow…

He should have taken a dip in the river Styx to see what it does to him.

The big problem these days is that, even when the family remembers to put the coins on the deceased’s eyes, the Funeral home people steal them and claim they thought it was a “Tip”.

The flood story goes back 4K -5k, folks still believe it. (appears in the Gilgamesh epic)

I thought Charon was the concierge of New York City’s Continental Hotel. :D