Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 19, 2013
Transcript:
danae...these men have some questions for you nsa time travel prevention miss. your email about the start of a robot apocalypse got pinged *gasp* pinged? wait...your job is to prevent people from traveling through time? yes, it's vital to national security which of course means world security oh...my...gah... that's got to be the coolest make-believe job ever! well, it was until your stupid email pinged and made our boss send us out to investigate! fieldwork makes us itchy
einarbt about 11 years ago
Itch away I say.
Linguist about 11 years ago
Boss said: " It’s about time you boys did some traveling ! "
Dtroutma about 11 years ago
^Hmm, was Danae in Chicago???
Can't Sleep about 11 years ago
See? And you thought the NSA didn’t do anything cool!And now we know what Danae wants to do when she grows up.
poppy1313 about 11 years ago
I think they are from a parallel universe split off when they time traveled back.
wrwallaceii about 11 years ago
Oh yeah, it’s a fun and make-believe job until somebody goes and makes it real. And then it becomes work.
Space_cat about 11 years ago
Sounds familiar? Our Government officially denies the existence of UFO’s and Aliens. Yet Congress passed a law making it a federal crime to actually go up to a UFO (if you can find one) and physically touch it!
LeslieBark about 11 years ago
Thank you, Androgenoid. Here’s a link to The Men Who Murdered Mohammed by Alfred Bester: http://arthursbookshelf.com/sci-fi/bester/alfred%20bester%20-%20the%20men%20who%20murdered%20mohammed.pdf
Varnes about 11 years ago
Itchy…What, is there poison ivy in that field?
roctor about 11 years ago
We have a 51st state?
Q4horse about 11 years ago
I want the NSA job that monitors comic comments for anti Obama commentators.
rockngolfer about 11 years ago
That is caused by eddies in the space-time continuum.Eddie is where?
joeshmo30 about 11 years ago
ok, i havve to say it, the one guy looks like benjamin franklin! o_O
emptc12 about 11 years ago
They pretend to work, and the government pretends to pay them: “Oh, oh … sorry. Your checks have been delayed sometime in the 26th Century. Chrono-congress still hasn’t okayed the Federation budget.”
Beleck3 about 11 years ago
i bet we have more than 57, lol. 51 is Israel, count all the overseas bases and voila!!! empire unrivaled!!
and Danae gets a ping
dogday Premium Member about 11 years ago
No, Danae. The coolest make-believe-job-that’s-real is Protector of the Planet, employed by the U. N. I’ve just got to believe that a silver jumpsuit, cape and boots come with that job.
dabugger about 11 years ago
But Danae, these buys are not a fantasy and ya gotta believe. Its ‘make believe’; its ‘’we make you believe’!
rpbass about 11 years ago
To freak them out, Danae should have told the spooks that when they entered the house, they also entered her time machine and now they are traveling through time at the rate of 1 second per second and they can never go back to the time when they entered the house. ;-)
Linguist about 11 years ago
Dr. Who can explain everything. Where is that phone kiosk ?
Potrzebie about 11 years ago
What is the seal shown on the agent’s credentials? I hope it’s a snake eating it’s tail, that would be most fitting.
BaconBoyCamper about 11 years ago
Aren’t we all, every one of us, “time travellers”, travelling on our big blue marble?
milania about 11 years ago
The kid gives me the creeps…..
Gokie5 about 11 years ago
Hey, Notso, I was going to say that!
Gokie5 about 11 years ago
I’d guess that Danae can make mincemeat of the NSA bureaucrats.
dflak about 11 years ago
I like to play with alternative hisotries. 1491: Columbus gets the flu and dies. 20th century: Eurpean intelligence specialists look at sattelite imagy,“Hey, what that?”
meowlin about 11 years ago
Or, as the TWZ episode demonstrated (as well as Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveller’s Wife), even if you could travel back in time, you wouldn’t be able to change anything.
Caddy57 about 11 years ago
Aliens never bothered Obama before (broader voting base) Why now?
pcolli about 11 years ago
“Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so.”
tigerchik32 about 11 years ago
Oh, you’ve heard of the Many Worlds theory?
reynard61 about 11 years ago
@ A_Dream4u: Hate to burst your paranoia bubble (heh, not really!); but no, it isn’t. As it says in the linked article, it was legal for Teh Gummint to quarantine people who were suspected of having come into contact with space aliens or their transportation, but the law was apparently removed from the books in 1991.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member about 11 years ago
You guys haven’t seen the show 7 days? According to it the NSA is responsible for time travel
bluskies about 11 years ago
No more than having your credit card company raise your credit limit means you owe more. It’s what you do with it, not what you can do.
MartyLikeIts1991 over 3 years ago
Dad: Danae, what do you want to be when you grow up? Danae: NSA Time Travel Prevention!!!