Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 02, 2010

Did you talk to my wife about this? You must have!!!

Say, this may be the first guy in history to really understand women!

Aw, he’s just fakin’ it like we all do.

Okay Wiley, what have you been doing listening in to my private conversations with my wife.

If he’s as smart as he seems to be, get up and run!

Joe, get out of it now before it’s too late!!!!

Can she possibly be worse than Danae?

I did like Vicotria up until now. A prenup is one thing..but htis is outrageous. Joe does need to skip this marriage.

Joe, unless you actually want to get married, you’re going about this all wrong.

Danae has him well trained!

Ogden Nash, “A Word to Husbands” (1964)

To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup Whenever you’re wrong admit it Whenever you’re right, shut up.

He wasnt trained, he was railroaded, I cannot believe he is going along with this, just tell het to @#%$& off!

And Ogden Nash was a wuss.

joe, spill coffee on yourself. excuse yourself. leave the booth to clean up, and never come back. the reason i dislike women’s magazines, they always have some quiz that’s always a no-win for the guys. i’ve seen a lot of testy stuff from guys taking the quiz.

You’re right Dear. You’re always right. Would you like me to rub your feet after I do the dishes?

They’re two theories concerning arguing with a woman…

Niether one works

Oh, he’s a good one! Grab him, Victoria, and never let him go!

Good one, Wannabeaussie! I have not read much Nash. I agree with others, tho’ that unless Joe WANTS to be married, he should speak truthfully (which this can’t be).

Victoria seemed like a nice girl up until now, but this is diabolical!

good word usage vldazzle…..of or pretaining to the devil. yeah, that about covers it.

THIS is why I’m single.

repeat after me, I’m sorry honey I’ll try to do better next time.

Two steps to a happy marriage:

She tells him what to do. He does it.

Or as Don Rickles puts it: happy wife = happy life.

All women are sisters. Doesn’t matter where they are from. All men are either single or clueless.

As a pastor, the best relationship advice I ever give men is: “You have a choice, you can be right or you can be happy. The choice is yours.”

John Pike, thanks for separating us single people from the clueless……

Joe understands how it works. He is a wise one.

Laughing, I showed this comic to my wife, She didn’t get the joke and I had to apologize. By apologize, I mean ON MY KNEES!

seablood, sounds to me like she did get the joke…

This particular day’s strip is NOT one to point out to your SO of either gender - unless you want to start an argument ;-)

you see.. she’s punk-en you already

Love makes the world go ‘round, but that ain’t it!

I’m both happy and right - I’m not married!

If she is wrong she needs to be told she is wrong.

It is possible to be married and happy. SOMETIMES it is even possible to be married and happy at the same time, but that is the exception rather than the rule. The TRICK is to choose wisely. (Think Indiana Jones ….)

Men who marry thinking the woman will change are right – they will revert to type once they ‘have’ the man. Look at her MOTHER to find out what she will be like. If you can’t stand your future mother-in-law, RUN in the other direction! If you kinda like the old bitty, this won’t be such a bad marriage. TRUST me on this one!

Now WOMEN who marry men thinking they can change him will be wrong. Men are what we are, and trying to change us is like trying to teach the proverbial pig to sing. It frustrates you and annoys the pig, so just don’t try. Not to say we can’t be trained in small ways (for example, I now call home when I’m going to be late after a rather serious lapse in judgment which caused way too much consternation and worry because of slow traffic!) but that is less ‘change’ than ‘learning from experience’ – our core will remain as it is, it is just the edges that change.

Now this ‘right and wrong’ thing …. who ever said there was a fixed truth in the first place? Sheesh! Haven’t you looked at politicians enough to know the truth is what you WANT to believe? Repeat it often enough, and it IS… other than this, there is no ‘truth’ …. in love or politics/war! I think there is even a saying about love and war, isn’t there? :)

He must’ve already read the manual…or the Cliff’s Notes…

I tell women when I think they’re wrong, & have never been in any danger of getting married.

Only after I married Ms. [Mr.] Right did I find out her [his] first name was “Always”…

Wiley, this boy has been married before, we can all tell.

Great facial expressions as usual, thanks Wiley.

Tell it exactly like it is, Joe. If she accepts it, you’re in; if not, you’re no worse off.

One thing my crazy old lesbian girlfriend taught me – “Always, ALWAYS, be Straight about feelings!” My (second, and Last) wife is still reaping the benefits of that advice after 25 years (and still Twitterpated).

whoa weird, Joe looks like he’s kind of enjoying this in the last frame…

i read somewhere that the last word in any argument belongs to the woman. anything said by the man after that point is simply the beginning of a new argument. (and i, too, have always been single.)

I think they should just get over with and have Joe Neutered, that’s what’s gonna happen anyway.

Rule 1: The woman is always right. Rule 2: If the woman is wrong, see rule 1.

And old guys wonder why they can’t get any women after the inevitable divorce.

For that matter, no wonder that type of woman says the spark in the relationship is gone when she’s got her husband capitulating to her every time.

Yes, they were dating and Joe wanted to get engaged. Before he became unemployed, that was.

There’s an old joke that the two most important words for a man to know are “yes dear.”

If a trophy such as Victoria is so much more desirable than her plain-jane cousin, well, Joe will have to make the necessary sacrifices. Won’t he?

Oh … and I’m nothing like “the old bitty” who is my mother. We have different personalities, do everything differently, and we disagree on everything except politics.

When asked to change a habit, a person may whine “don’t try to change ME,” as though a person IS his habits. I disagree: A habit is merely a mindless way of doing things, so a person who IS his habits is mindless.

We change careers. We change habits. We change our minds about all sorts of things. The more I learn, the more I change. Change is natural. Change comes from within; however, asking for change is not a sin; it is called diplomacy.

Mind games, verbal foreplay, harmless flirting - these folks are having a good time and some of you guys are trying to turn it into a war of the sexes. Any time a woman says “oooh” then things are going well…