Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 11, 2022

They failed to control access to the giant rubber bands!

Hope this doesn’t give the boys any ideas!!!

If they are in the towers, they should have rifles.

If they can fly in paper airplanes, they must be serving a light sentence.

The law – of unintended consequences.

How did they launch? ACME rubber band sling?

A giant Trebuchet

Who’s idea was it to supply them with oversized jumbo sheets of paper?

How did they manage to get airborn?

I wanna see the launch…

If those things fly like my paper airplanes did they’d be in the barbed wire by now.

More like magic carpets.

paper chase

Not to put too fine a point here, but I’ve done that thing where I doubled the paper size for several designs, and once you get to “11×17”2 or A32, the paper becomes so floppy that it won’t keep shape and the wings just fold.

Oh, what a lot of folderol!

Colditz Castle. Escape of the Birdmen

I reckon he should be made to wear the fools cap.

I remember visiting a cardboard factory. They had huge sheets…

Out to play a game of quidditch, I see

The headline about this prison escape will almost certainly be above the fold.

Douglas Bader once tried this for real. He had a mid-air over France in 1941 or 42, bailed out, was taken prisoner, sent to a PoW camp… and tried to escape. Got caught. Sent to a new camp. Tried to escape. Got caught. The Germans got tired of his escape attempts, and sent him to a special camp: Colditz Castle, sitting on a mountaintop. Utterly escape-proof, it was on rock so no tunnels, only one way in or out so going over the wall wouldn’t work. Bader and six other decided to fly out, most of them being Air Force after all. They had a glider almost complete when the US 1st Army liberated the camp. They were going to launch from a rooftop, and they were on top of a mountain…

Let’s see Arkham Asylum inmates top THIS

Sheets, starch and determination can take you a long way. Of course that depends on what the starch is and how long it takes to stiffen the sheets.

That giant-paper-making course also seems egregious in retrospect.

That looks like Ballard Street cardboard pants inserts. (Now on sale at Dennis’ store!). Those things are strong.

“Tesch a man to fish…”

That was a TV movie long time ago, except that it was a German POW camp and a glider, not paper airplanes.

LOL…………….. really good one, Wiley!

A class that literally led to making things take off!

Those some impressive paper airplanes.

Should be a book on “Making Paper Airplanes”.

Target practice! break out the AAA guns.

If I had the wings of an angel Over these prison walls I would fly I would fly to the arms of my darlin And there I’d be willing to die

Dear Icarus…I am sorry,but I now love another….