Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 22, 2023

 ♪   Row, row, row your boat

A friend’s family went down the Colorado. They trained for two years. The trip nearly killed them.

Well this was dark from start to finish.

Judging by the drawing, wild river disqualifies itself by turning into a waterfall just beyond that bend.

…is it just me?..

…it looks like they’re going UP the rapids…

Is that guy getting paid to keep the victim count?

There should be a third panel: Bears.

Wouldn’t that be “scoring” instead of “rating?”

I hear banjos…

At least they’ve had a chance to see the score.

And they will end up the same as the two antiheroes did in the movie that ended with this song: “Flow river flow, Let your waters wash down, Take me from this road, To some other town”.

Do you hear banjo music?

33 to 3. that’s bettor than Vegas odds.

“Ya pays yer money and ya take yer chances.”

Seems ‘extremes’ are the central focus these days.

oh but what fun

River Rapids are just doing their job thinning out the herd.

Going over Niagara Falls in a barrel isn’t that hard—-it’s the landing field below that’s solid stalagmite.

Gravity makes you hug the side so you can’t leapfrog over it.

Most of the rafters got stuck between a rock and . . . a rock.

I’m not normally a risk taker, but I’d love to do this. If I don’t get killed in the process, I think it’d be thrilling.

Howdy, Wiley! It’s been a long time since we crossed paths. Keep up the fine work.

If there isn’t the constant risk of death, is it really a vacation?

The are taking the suicede express.

OK, OK, OK, OK, Sometime you get a real good one…

Not sure I get it. Does the Rafters side get a mark when a boat makes it safely to the end? They don’t look like they are at the end now, so how would the guy know if they made it safely?

I live in FL where all bodies of water have alligators in them. Swimming pools are sometimes included. I’m not scared of a few rapids.

In the event of an emergency, your wooden paddle becomes a floatation device — so hang the heck on!

Mt. Everest has been thinning out the young, rich and stupid for years now. I’m waiting for the first load of billionaires to blow up on the launch pad after they invent rocket racing.

How is keeping count a rating system?

Foreboding…and I know someone who did die (age 16) on the Colorado.

Just in case you needed to know …