Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 17, 2022

very funny Henderson, NOW GET DRESSED AND GET BACK TO WORK!!!!!!

Maybe the canary worked out better…

Sure, that’s all very old mining technology there, but you’d think they ’d come up with a better safety alternative for the canary in the coal mine.

Tunnel mining is better than strip mining, because the plants on the surface are still there. Tunnel mining call lead to small earthquakes 50 years later.

My eyes hurt

LOL’d. Best laugh all day!

This is not strip mining. As Sir Badger says above, this is tunnel mining.

Why call employees “human resources” if they are not meant to be strip-mined?

Maybe they’re looking for exotic material?

Never a cave-in when you want one.

♫ I’m singing sub-terrain, yes singing sub-terrain. ♪♪ What a glorious feelingAnd I’m happy again ♫♪

Swinging while singing to a medley of Cole Porter tunes:

Down in the Depths

Ace in the Hole

Something for the Boys

This one will go into the lexicon as a companion to airbrakes on a tortoise for worthless ideas.

Brings a whole new meaning to strip mining.

Minor point: This Appalachian coal-miner’s son notes that this is not strip mining, but underground mining.

“Oh, to work with Big Bad John rather than bad shorts Lenny.”

It’s like sailors at sea, anything goes for a little entertainment.

My Dad worked in the coal fields all his life. Surface mining. Didn’t get Black Lung but had respiratory problems most of the time. Anyone that works in underground mining has my undying admiration. It may be ‘just a job’ to some, but it is dirty, back breaking work with huge health and safety risks. And just in case, here’s a link to a 1911 picture of a coal mining crew. That isn’t that long ago….https://imgur.com/Z9iOt7n

Modern coal mining is mostly automated…

If you consider the number of strip joints as you pass through WV is this the training plan or the retirement plan?

Hey, lunch time is his time. What is to you. Just don’t shove any money into his underwear.

In the 1950s, the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn featured a certain central European ethnic group. My cousin went to a class there to learn folk dancing from that country. So this is not what I originally thought Pole dancing to be.

I little information on strip mining. In Eastern Ohio large areas were strip mined for coal. They have now been reclaimed. See The Wilds as an example. The water is safe and clean and thousands of acres are available for recreation and wild life refuges.

No one has a dollar?

Does this chick, by any chance, know Aunty Acid?!? This stunt seems to be something she could pull off with much aplomb. . .

Reminds me of an old NonSequitur strip. This guy complaining of being congested while little cars were driving in heavy traffic all over his body. Wiley is king of merging the disparate.

Is this mine in Poland?

FWIW, that isn’t a strip mine.

Definitely not as good an idea as it might have been 100 years ago before mining started using so much machinery to do the work. The guys would have looked well fit from all the manual labor.

John Prine classic: ♪♫ And Daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River where Paradise lay? Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking. Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away> ♫♪

oh, the inhumanity

This is happening because they mistakenly thought they couldn’t go to the nearest bar. It had the sign “No Minors Allowed”, and they exclaimed, “The United Mine Workers will hear about this!”

This must be happening in Pole Land

Cheap entertainment…

Much easier on the dancer’s legs than the usual rough-hewn timbers…

Of course, strip mining is done on the surface rather than underground. So, there would be more light for dancing. :)

Strip mining is not underground – - other than that

It is a good joke, but strip mining ISN’T underground in a tunnel.

Wow, I can see I made the wrong career choice!

Strip mining is a surface activity.

I bet the miners would not complain if it was a female doing the dance.

I know I’m tossing into the wind, here, but that isn’t strip-mining.

Strip mining is done from the surface, not from tunnels!

“I won’t stuff a ten in yer shorts, but I might throw a rock.”

They say things go crazy in the mines.

This is why I never take a sip of coffee right before I click on a Wiley Miller cartoon.

Thanks to all commenters on keeping it light, for the most part! Got some decent, home-grown humor displayed.

Hey, baby, get it off! GET ITALL OFF!!

Nice to see one that is about being funny and humorous, instead of a gag heavily laden with agenda.

So is this comic approved for miners?

He’s only doing this until he passes his bar exam.

If you want real experience with miners, just watch a 5-year-old discussing with a 4-year-old sibling just whose toy that is.