Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 08, 2023

How did the quail bite off his leg do you think? There must be a pe(ker joke in there somewhere.

Moby Chick.

Lets not even talk about the partial drafts that never saw the light of day. The Great Milk Pale, the Long White Trail and the White Spam Mail!

Quail? Can it spell ‘potato’?

Followed by a loud and great white wail.

From Hell’s heart I stab at thee!

google the “real” moby dick whale story. it involves adrift in 2 lifeboats, murder, and cannibalism after the whale rams and sinks the ship.

Thar she tweets!

“Welcome to StarBucks, I’ll be your waiter, call me Ishmael”

Do stores still have Great White Sales? (Aye Starbuck, it be bed linen bargains we hunt!)

Call me Eric.

Harpoon lampoon

Every author has his Boswell

After trying to read “Moby Dick” many times over the decades, I finally said, “NO MORE”, and dropped off my copy in one of those neighborhood library boxes. Time for someone else to suffer.

Keith?

LOL! And so the story goes on….

Is that Bob? Bob white!?

Excellent Bob White Quail video on YouTube. “quail sings beautiful song”

Ah the great white quail. It was he that cost trusted mate Harry Whittington his face. Our Captain swore his revenge and sought yon quail. And in the final scene he shouts “from hell’s heart I shoot at thee”, as Captain Dick Chaney blasts his shot gun.

Moby Chick? You may not lose your leg, but you may get an eye poked out.

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. Cursed quail.

That version didn’t fly…

That is one big quail. Usually they’re robin-sized

And to think great white quail could have replaced turkey as a holiday favorite dish if it were raised on farms and not hunted to extinction

Did it invent the internet?

If you don’t have time to read the book, in 3 minutes you can hear it all in Steve Goodman’s “Moby Book” ….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXX3GvwxhSk

Slowly I turn! Step by step… crap, he flew away.

And now it is extinct.

Does this quail know how to spell potatoe?

Funny, I always thought “Moby Dick” was a venereal disease.

Probably what the aging publisher heard when Melville first pitched the story.

Not so Great White Quayle.

Now_there’s_ a marketing opportunity: Moby Dick’s Great White Ale, or maybe Mopey Dick’s Great Whitebread Ale… IPAs, natch. : )

Bob-white? Bob-white?

Wake me when you find the great white ale.

Funny, that doesn’t look like Dan Quayle!

Ishmael, you fool, I said whale.

Melville had to revise it after a squabble with his editor.

did the publisher really change the artwork? or did all the comments get changed? ; – O

potato beomes the thread?

When the editor went with a whale, they had a boatload of Qs and best friend Larry became Queequeg.

Looking for a golf ball. Talk about serendipity.

It’s the missing bobwhite quail. https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/answering-call-for-bobwhite-quail

Very thought provoking, clever tho not funny…

Wiley ONCE AGAIN ran out of drawing/writing a FUNNY cartoon.

That would never have made and English class reading list.

Liked for the mysterious, “I laughed more than an objective assessment would rule it deserves” effect.

What a boring book. Wonder if he should have stuck with the first draft :)

Oh, really, Wiley, … must you??

I hear that it was for the birds.