Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 26, 2010

I believe he is walking a very big dog… requiring a snow shovel and a wheel barrow to pooper-scoop. A big load of… has reminded her of doing business with the bank?

^Thanx, got it!

You’re sure it’s a dog he’s walking? What about the elephant in the room?

Banks = Expert Excrement Expeditors (yes, that’s a Fallout 2 reference).

I don’t quite get it and I doubt that it’s funny anyway.

Either the big dog is wizzing the bank or dumping the bank. Like they say on Fox News, “you decide”

Did the man shovel some poop to his banker.

Just because you don’t get it terry doesn’t mean it isn’t funny! I personally enjoyed it very much!

But I think that he needs a chain rather than a retractable leash!

Silly me! I thought he was a homeless man using some enormous tape measure to measure out his new home on the street. What the shovel was for? I didn’t get that far thanks to everyone clearing up this comic. I like my world. My sad, sad little world. (sigh)

I’d also guess that the wheelbarrow isn’t large enough to hold more than one full shovel load, for what it’s worth.

Big dog = big crap. Who’s going to clean it up?

Big bank = big mortgage mess. And who has to shovel that pile of feces?

A perfect analogy! I salute you, Wiley Miller!

Anyone ever heard of the pooper-scooper business? I recall hearing that it IS lucrative.

Thanks everyone for clarifying this. I, too, thought he had a snowblower or hand held vacuum in his right hand and couldn’t figure it out. Now I see: the big dog is p’ing on the bank, which reminds the lady about how she feels the bank is treating her. Okay, it’s kinda humorous, and painfully truthful, and since it needed an explanation, for all those reasons it’s not funny. We need to start a movement and pay off all our loans and credit cards and not keep any savings accts that only pay 1/10 of 1% interest. I’m p’d off about being p’d on and I’m not gonna take it anymore!

Lewreader, you ARE funny. Joe never learns from his critics. But posting stuff in his name is a cheap shot. I say if you can’t mock honestly, don’t mock at all.

It’s the dog leash that’s fooling every9one. Those retractable things are barely good for my M-in-law’s poodle let alone a cross between a mastiff and a bull moose. Excellent analogy for the SEC, too, by the way.

I believe nins needs a new phrase. Can we all start a voting process? I suggest: “Help! My creativity has fallen and it can get up!”

I was thinking about how money was devalued in the 1920’s in Germany. A man used a wheelbarrow to carry his marks to buy some food in a store. He left the wheelbarrow outside the store, figuring the money was safe. He was right, but when he came back out, someone had stolen the wheelbarrow…

I think it is time for Wiley to step in here and set us all straight. I’ll be back later to see what he has to say. And I’ve already posted to Ninmas to explain her/himself.

Joe, I think lewreader was just looking for you to explain the cartoon, as is your wont. I don’t think that was a mock.

I can understand getting stuck on “all sanity is lost.”

Just look around. Can you find any?

I couldn’t figure out what the guy with the wheelbarrow had in his right hand without the help of all above - thanks!

This is a good comic that suffers from one of Bill Amend’s (and many others’) pet peeves - the shrinking of the space allotted to comics. It looks like they just didn’t give Wiley enough room/resolution to draw a retractable dog leash properly.

Call me crazy but I thought the whole thing was so terribly obvious! Go to a bank about a mortgage re-fi and, despite all the ads saying LOW interest rates, you end up with a dot of a difference in the mortgage you already have! It doesn’t matter if you have EXCELLENT credit all not! It’s all B.S. or “dog dooty.” Try and get a new mortgage while you’re at it - they’re not cheap, either!

Is it just experience (or lack thereof), Wiley?

nyah nyah nyah nyah NYAH-nyah!… lewreader got BUSted!

dotyman waits in the bushes and STRIKES!

Yeah, this one was a little difficult to figure out today.

Thanks for the posts, but if it takes that much explanation, the humor is lost for me.

With that biggest snowshovel to dig up the dog’s poops? sheeshhh! rolled my eyes up/down!

where’s obviousman when you need him ?

I suppose I should thank Kis too. Too bad Baslim had the more clever way of doing it.

i usually get them all - with the exception of some of the Homers in the Sunday paper - but i am missing something here. i cannot id what the subject is holding other than the shovel. it could be a retraction device for an animal leash but it could be a reel for a fishing rod, etc. will Wiley enlighten us?

bazookaboy, good call……..Wiley? Little help?

Once again; Perfect Mr. Miller……….. Very clear, very concise………….

It has to be a handle for a retractable dog leash to go with the idea of shoveling a lot of dog bleeep, but the comics are printed so tiny that it is hard to see it clearly.

I’d like to see the dog-walking guy bundle up his collection into gift boxes to give to those bankers who just gave themselves bonuses.

I’m with you Barbaratoo, I thought it was pretty obvious too. Then again, a large part of my career is picking up after animals, so maybe I have an unfair advantage over other readers…

I like the strip, too, and thought it was obvious until I saw - and didn’t recognize - the retractable leash.

(I’m old school, if I needed to retract it, I just coiled it in my hand.)

interesting Wiley - no help and a slap on your own back - i think it is clear that there is something big on the end of the leash that requires a shovel perhaps ones own mess… doubtful it is a bank being pissed on since this is a street corner and the couple probably does not have huge bags of cash, or maybe they are emptying accounts then their comments don’t make sense -

so Wiley - is reminding us that we have to pick up after our own messes…or at least be willing to if we create at one…

Q: What’s the difference between The Mafia and an Investment Bank?

A: The Mafia has better ethics and worse lawyers.

she’s just expecting from the bank the same stuff shovel man is…

well - that is another way - I prefer the idealistic optimistic outlook perhaps this couple are the lucky few who are just finding better rates - not like so many who might have bought what they could not afford - however easy the financing was to obtain. - Still a big pile of poo all around - constant reminders

in the end - I think the comic was clear and a yet another great conversation piece

The banks are full of dog doo and shoveling won’t help.

I’m one of those who is disappointed in the lack of explanation… but then a comic strip shouldn’t need explanation! I adore your strip Wiley but this one lost me. If I had to come here to try to “get it”, and I ain’t alone, somethin’s amiss.

My comments: I agree it seems like a retractable leash, but it could be something else… And what kind of place are they coming out of? No sign? At first I thought holding luggage & therefore hotel, but now I reckon those are shopping bags & therefore a fancy store? (hmmm, the husband is shopping too?!) Sure doesn’t look like a bank to me (which also wouldn’t make sense with the text).

Well, he can’t be perfect every day, I ‘spose. :)

Thanks to the comments I “think” I know what this strip says… I mean I didn’t have a clue! Tres, tres obtuse Monsieur Wiley!

Joe,

I also didn’t find lewreaders comment funny. However, you did comment on it which perhaps was the intent of the comment all along. I think you should not pay too much attention to the mockers. Post what you want and to heck with them if they don’t like it.

I think ninmas has fish-n-mouth disease!

I am totally jazzed that the author of the strip, Wiley, reads the comments, and the readers communicate directly with him. Are there other strip where this takes place? I’m pretty late here, but I hope someone knows and answers.

I still don’t get it. The brown blob looks like a dog’s head to me, not dog poo. I hope Mr. Wiley steps in tomorrow to explain today’s as I won’t be back on again tonight.

Comments help out once again. Thanks.

Now, how about what’s going on with Lewreader and “Joe.” I’m looking for the offending comment and what was frauduantly listed by Joe. You know this is far more compelling than humor. Nighthawks, I loved your comment, can you shed some light here? Please.

A badly conceived gag from a typical leftist/liberal who’s never met a bank, a corporation or a big business he didn’t think was evil, corrupt and greedy. So what else is new?

I love these wiley comics. I did however come to this site to get an explanation for thing the man with the shovel is holding, now that I know it’s a retactable leash ( I obsurdly thought it was a big piece of dog doo, which of course the papers would have to censor) it is just as funny because I’ve tried to get a mortgage re-fi and was jerked around.