Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 05, 2021

I think that’s a little late now

That white whale is far from harmless. Understanding the ultimate results of your goal is important.

The whale’s look is hilarious.

Reassessing the goal: Is it time to stop making replacement avionics for obsolete aircraft?

Now all the whale has to do is barf up a giant squid.

Jonah reassesses his career choice

Uh, that is the mission creep.

Call him Ishmael. ;-)

Get me down from here!

So what, I was rooting for the whale anyway.

Borderline insane and obsessive people don’t have second thoughts—they are incapable of getting beyond that first thought … “Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.”

Here’s a funny spoof of Moby Dick by way of Jurassic Park, courtesy of Harry Turtledove.

What does AHAB stand for?

where is Obviousman when you need him??

Moby @ick Head how little did I read you, let me count the ways; no, even that would be boring.

“And I’m going to kill the white whale for taking my leg!”

“Weren’t you trying to kill him at the time?”

“Yes, what does that have to do with anything?”

“Sounds like self-defense on his part… On the other hand, Captain, you’re a real jerk.”

Yup! When the whale is the elephant in the room.

Before I read the story, I thought Moby Dick was a venereal disease.

@Steverino Or a gigantic penis.

The effects of using polls to determine favorable outcomes.

He’d best do it before the whale decides he looks like squid.

The whale is NOT amused.

He’s a whaler in his head,

who’ll soon be very dead!

Cuz’ the whales are whales,

and not tall tales,

So don’t ’poon them in the head.

(Sing to the tune of “Whalers on the Moon” from Futurama)

As I see it, the great whale is Comcast and Ahab is a customer, trying to get his new tv box to work.

I wasted 4 hours this week dealing with the spawn of Satan known as Comcast. Did have a chance to speak with a nice girl somewhere in Asia. And the box is still dead. Arrrgh!

They’d have better luck with more muscular guys throwing those harpoons

What a wonderful drawing! Didn’t even need to read the text.

This is what is known as “getting in over your head”.

I don’t think is has anything to do with Moby Dick,(other than the whale being white). It’s mocking corporate-speak for “Plan Ahead”.

I think we’re going to need a bigger boat!

Arab for being stupid.

Moby Dick 1, Capt. Ahab 0

Ahab was the Biblical King of Judaea who had a wicked wife named Jezebel

“When you’re up to your @$$in Alligators, it’s hard to remember that your original Objective was to drain the swamp!”

All Harpoonists Are …….

I’ll say!

It happened off the coast of BAHA.

“The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting velocity the line ran through the grooves;—ran foul. Ahab stooped to clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turn caught him round the neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew he was gone. Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope’s final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths.

For an instant, the tranced boat’s crew stood still; then turned. “The ship? Great God, where is the ship?” Soon they through dim, bewildering mediums saw her sidelong fading phantom, as in the gaseous Fata Morgana; only the uppermost masts out of water; while fixed by infatuation, or fidelity, or fate, to their once lofty perches, the pagan harpooners still maintained their sinking lookouts on the sea. And now, concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating oar, and every lance-pole, and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex, carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight.

(To be concluded)

(Conclusion)

“But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;—at that instant, a red arm and a hammer hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, in the act of nailing the flag faster and yet faster to the subsiding spar. A sky-hawk that tauntingly had followed the main-truck downwards from its natural home among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there; this bird now chanced to intercept its broad fluttering wing between the hammer and the wood; and simultaneously feeling that etherial thrill, the submerged savage beneath, in his death-gasp, kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it.

“Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”

CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day. “Moby-Dick; or The Whale”, by Herman Melville.

Strongs’s #157: ’ahab – Greek/Hebrew Definitions – Bible Toolshttps://www.bibletools.org/…/ID/H157/ahab.htmBrown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon: /. ’âhab / ’âhêb. 1) to love. 1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual. 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom. 1a3) human love for or to God. 1a4) act of being a friend.

Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales, as opposed to baleen whales. He can take a bite out of the whalers…. Seriously, their primary diet is squid, no chewing at all.

Mission : To Kill Moby DickResult : Moby Dick 1; Ahab 0

Now would be a good time for – ahem – someone to consider that.