Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 18, 2012
Transcript:
Joe: An article here points out some health benefits to eating chocolate. Flo: Finally some good news! Eddie: Hmm... then logic would dictate that the maw chocolate ya eat, the healthiah you'll be. Joe: Except we all know that's the opposite of reality. Flo: Hold on, deah... I think Eddie has a point! Woo-hoo! It's a scientific fact that eatin' lots of chocolate is the healthiest diet evah!! Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate! Joe: Now I know how economic theories go from a cult to a mainstream religion. Eddie: Anything in theah about the health benefits of bahbon?
The#1BoiseStateFan almost 12 years ago
It stinks for Sweetheart Bakeries, because they just shut down.
V-Beast almost 12 years ago
Mmmm, chocolate covered bacon.
Varnes almost 12 years ago
Dogsniff, what’s wrong with you? Normally you would the first to point out that when it comes to bourbon, it’s religion… personally I worship Canadian whiskey….
Ida No almost 12 years ago
“Yeah, there’s several articles on the health benefits of bourbon, but they’re all hard to read…”
hawgowar almost 12 years ago
Maker’s Mark for me, thanks.
hariseldon59 almost 12 years ago
Actually it doesn’t work like that, Eddie. Something can be good or even essential for your health if consumed at low to moderate levels, but bad or even lethal at extremely high levels. Even water can kill you if you drink too much in a short period of time.
runar almost 12 years ago
As far as I’m concerned, the only difference between “bahbon” and turpentine is that turpentine is better at thinning paint. The smell and the taste are about the same. Give me a good Irish Uisge Baugh or fine Brandy instead.Of course anything can be harmful if taken to extremes. Even water can be poisonous.
kheman almost 12 years ago
@Fairportfan2That only because we don’t drink Guiness fresh, hand-pulled, and at cellar temp like they do in Ireland.
kheman almost 12 years ago
That’s…oops.
psychlady almost 12 years ago
I have always said – Chocolate should be one of the basic food groups!!!
cdward almost 12 years ago
Bacon, yes… but only dark bacon.
puddleglum1066 almost 12 years ago
Dark chocolate and a good dark beer. Mmmmmm….
AKHenderson Premium Member almost 12 years ago
I always said that if they really want to make a men’s cologne that attracts women, it will smell like chocolate.
woodwork almost 12 years ago
good ol’ Jack…distilled right here in Tennessee
roctor almost 12 years ago
Medical cocoa.
elbeck almost 12 years ago
Economics: Applied mathematics for the status quo.
Q4horse almost 12 years ago
Chocolate is filled with many wonderful benificial compounds, unfortunately the fat, sugar, and milk it is usually mixed with are not so helpfull.Bourbon, in moderation, has health benifits as well.
Earle H Landry almost 12 years ago
Excellent metaphor for how the Mises/Hayeck insights morphed into “neoliberalism!”
caller49 almost 12 years ago
No thank you all, I’ll stick with Budweiser.
dabugger almost 12 years ago
so her-she thinks she has a point and not diabetes…….
Wiley creator almost 12 years ago
See? Now isn’t conversing about alcohol and chocolate SO much more fun and engaging that the ennui of politics?
Rista almost 12 years ago
Allergic to chocolate and can’t stand the taste of bourbon, I am SO out of luck here.
jahoody almost 12 years ago
Give me Kessler’s please……or a Club Whiskey Sour.
vwdualnomand almost 12 years ago
heard on why women love chocolate. when eating chocolate, it triggers some brain chemical that is same chemical when women fall in love. so, want to have a woman fall in love with you, bring chocolate. take her to one of those chocolate festivals. take her to that all you can eat chocolate buffet at langham hotel boston.
Justice22 almost 12 years ago
It seems that Danae gets a lot of her behavior from Granma.
peachyanddanny almost 12 years ago
Like supply side.
thirdguy almost 12 years ago
You must be a real blast at parties!
rcerinys701 almost 12 years ago
There’s another brand of Stout?
lecrenb almost 12 years ago
Actually, there is a very real health benefit to alcohol, in that it kills off the slowest brain cells first, thus improving one’s mind in particular, and mankind in general…Or words to that effect from Cliff Clavin…
littleannoyingdog almost 12 years ago
Fairportfan2 Guiness is the nectar of the gods.Boston Irish .
vwdualnomand almost 12 years ago
or, make the poor man’s mouthwash…..cinnamon and vodka.
Wiley creator almost 12 years ago
“Is glögg supposed to taste like battery acid?”
Ok, gotta ask…how do you know what battery acid tastes like?
Blossoming almost 12 years ago
@Rista Unfortunately, I’m with you, I’m allergic to both… But… If they were saying that their were otherworldly health benefits to eating mangoes (as opposed to other fruits), I’d go out and buy me a tree!…
Blossoming almost 12 years ago
@Wiley Going to the political side would hurt my head on this one, you gave us a good twist today!… Ow! Ow! My head! My head!…
hippogriff almost 12 years ago
night-gaunt: That’s all right, I found it most enlightening. On the other hand, both of us would be a scream at parties. Empty the hall in no time, and have a nice quiet conversation between ourselves.
lcs256 almost 12 years ago
40creek whiskey for my health
freeholder1 almost 12 years ago
I have to make fifty copies so my daughter can plaster one wall of her dorm room.
Hunter7 almost 12 years ago
The bourbon health benefits only occur if you eat the dark chocolate with a wee dram of bourbon. .oh,and you have to be female. heeheehee.
JP Steve Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Our gloög was created to hide the rather disappointing results of the Microbiology classes’ attempts at wine making. Yes. it did taste like battery acid!
hitman4cookies almost 12 years ago
It was political