Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 31, 2009

Theres trouble ahead.

Don’t sign Joe! You’ll regret it!

YEAH! Really!!! “Not now Eddie!”

Joe, quick, RUN FOR THE DOOR! clack clack I’ll cover you!

Now, Eddie…..

Mr. Wiley, thank you, for not only bringing us back to both the diner with Flo, and Capt. Eddie, (OK, and the cat.), but throwing in Victoria as a kicker. Well played, lad….well played…

Say it ain’t so, Joe!

As usual the man is the last to know.

What happened to Capt. Eddie’s cat? It’s missing from the last panel.

cat went to sit with Victoria, to get petted.

run joe! i see a storm on the horizon. no reply would be correct. why is it men are always preceived to be in the wrong….even before the questionnaire. is it because with women there’s no right answer? Wiley, please quit changing which side everybodies on. you’re making me dizzy. one minute capt. eddie is on the corner with joe on the long end of the counter….next joe’s on the corner. what gives.

I signed a pre-marriage agreement, an enlistment form. My favorite uncle sent me around the world and I missed the wedding. bleeep

It’s because the perspective of the viewer changes. Everyone is still in the same spot relative to each other … or was that just a rhetorical question?

Skip the prenup, take the 5th, call your solictor and flee for your very life, you know only too well what a real he** married life can be.

The cat went over and is sitting with Victoria.

The cat knows when to get out of Dodge.

@ronaldmundy It has been said by others, but there’s nothing inconsistent about the drawings for the past several days – except which shoulder the cat is on.

Think about a U-shaped counter. Flo is in the center. Starting from her left and going clockwise: empty counter, corner, Eddie, Joe, corner, empty counter. Every single frame all week has been consistent with this description.

And the plot thickens in time for the new year. Got to admit that if I’d have gotten engaged, I’d remember it.

Just buy her a house, a car and walk slowly away. It’s alot cheaper and less tressful.

Well, well! Can’t wait to see where this goes.

okay dtut, how can it be a u-shaped counter when it’s got corners? second, look at joe in the first panel…long counter to his left. look at the last panel…..corner is to his left. even if you change the perspective, the corner should end before the salt and pepper and the napkin holder as victoria walks in. to note, there is no salt and pepper or napkin holder in the last two frames. the perspective theory ends when you see capt. eddie on the end of the counter and two frames later joe’s at the end of the counter. it’s basic math.Wiley is toying with us, and so is victoria.

HAPPY NEW YEAR,WILEY!! Go for it, Joe

hmmm have to consider the “source” as law.Thanks Wiley, i’ll rest my case. it’s just a long way to a corner in your strip. happy blue moon new years.

A pre-marriage questionnaire? Is that like a pre-nup that can be rewritten when the marriage goes sour?

How do Danae and Victoria get along?

When’d she come back? And where was she again? Do the kids know?

she’s gonna marry someone else? Maybe?

thanks, Wiley, we trled to explain it to ronaldmundy 2 days ago.

“even if you change the perspective, the corner should end before the salt and pepper and the napkin holder as victoria walks in” not exactly – we’re looking at a different counter ‘face’ as the ‘camera’ angle changes. Pay attention man, it is a counter with more than one face! (“U” shaped, but with sharp corners not rounded ones) Now as to playing with things, that clearly is what Victoria is doing, but then, it is often how these sorts of decisions get made – slowly one step at a time and before you realize it it is too late. (or just in time depending on your perspective!)

Somebody has made a New Year’s resolution.

Marriage–the one topic that transcends all political demagoguery….

Proving what’s really important in this world–

RELATIONSHIP FEAR!!!!!

THE MIRACLE OF TOILET PAPER

Fresh from my shower, I stood in front of the mirror complaining to my husband that my breasts are too small. Instead of telling me it wasn’t so, as he usually does, he uncharacteristically came up with a suggestion.

“If you want your breasts to grow, then every day take a piece of toilet paper and rub it between them for a few seconds.”

Willing to try anything, I fetch a piece of toilet paper and stand in front of the mirror, rubbing it between my breasts.

“How long will this take,” I asked.

“They will grow larger over a period of years,” my husband replied.

I stopped rubbing, and asked again, “Do you really think rubbing a piece of toilet paper between my breasts every day will make my breasts larger over the years?”

Without missing a beat he said, “Worked for your butt, didn’t it?”

He’s still alive, and with a great deal of therapy, he may even walk again, although he will probably continue to take his meals through a straw. Stupid, stupid man.

aerwalt Too funny! But I hope you weren’t too hard on him. Like the song says: After all he’s just a man.

I think I’m more confused than Joe… talk about your random changes in topics!

OK, am I the only one, sitting on the edge of their seat, wondering what Victoria’s secret is?

Great way to end a year Wiley!

She didn’t miss a beat either.

get married by midnight, claim married and an extra dependent on the 1040…. oh and on the prenup, “as is”

Happy New Years everyone!!!

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind ? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and days o’auld lang syne ?

CHORUS: For auld lang syne, my jo, for auld lang syne, we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne.

Why does everyone keep expecting the cat to always be in the same place in every panel? Obviously these are people who don’t spend too much time with cats.

It makes sense to complete the pre-marriage agreement questionnaire before the engagement. If it looks like the couple really is not compatible, then they can call it off before they make any legal commitments,

I bet Joe didn’t know they had a favorite booth, either!

We probably should be able to see the salt and pepper shakers, or at least the napkin holder, in the last two panels ..Maybe Victoria took them over to their favorite booth…

Re the cat, we must simply accept Galileo’s utterance:

“And yet, it still moves….”

Happy New Year, fellow Millerites! Hopefully the noise-to-signal ratio in 2010 won’t exceed that of 2009…

Warning! Lurker emerging into the light! Of course Wiley is playing with us. Or didn’t anyone else notice yesterday how the inside corner of the counter was square in panel 2 and rounded in panel 3 while Flo hasn’t changed position at all? Also from yesterday - notice Pauly in panel 2 is facing backward but in panel 3 where Flo beats Eddie to the punch line, he is still sitting with his back to us, but has turned his(/her/it’s?) head to look at Flo. Love that cat. Happy New Year all.

Ahh the subterfuges of women! Is her last name Wily (without the e)?

I too have forgotten Wiley, do Victoria and Danae get along or is Danae jealous of sharing Dad?

I liked the previous owner of the clam stand better…