Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 03, 2010

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    DarthSequitur  over 14 years ago

    OK I see it (more or less) but I still don’t know what it is.

    At maximum screen magnification, the image loses clarity but… …it does sort of remind me of something out of Dr Seuss, but it’s been so long…

    Petey is the only one who knows what he’s doing here.

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Well it doesn’t look like a dove…..

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    MurphyHerself  over 14 years ago

    Does it have a mother?

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    thirdguy  over 14 years ago

    So that’s what happened to tinkerbell!!

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    ksoskins  over 14 years ago

    It’s small, it flies, and it glows, clearly Petey is right; it’s a miniature flying squirrel that glows in the dark. I guess Boris Badenov made Rocky radioactive somehow.

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    kreole  over 14 years ago

    Oh well, no worse than a talking horse….

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    SardonicPenguin  over 14 years ago

    Through visual processing, we can determine that the creature has a trunk, and a round body accompanied by four stumpy legs.

    Thus, I’d say it is a glowing albino miniature flying elephant.

    A G.A.M.F.E. for short.

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    lazygrazer  over 14 years ago

    Don’t touch it!….we don’t know where it’s been.

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    Little Miss Tink  over 14 years ago

    @Thirdguy: Uh, me, to your left with the dreamy face, Sir Clue of Less!

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    twj0729  over 14 years ago

    So far, at least. it seems friendly.

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    Constantinepaleologos  over 14 years ago

    It looks like the elephant bird from Horton.

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    CougarRacinChic  over 14 years ago

    when I maxed it, kinda looked like an elephant with something riding on its back….:-/ meh…

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    Charles Brobst Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Pandora’s box is now open.

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    kittenpah  over 14 years ago

    It’s the Great Gazoo! (ok, kiddies, you’ll have to go back and look up a historical reference to Fred Flintstone.)

    Bye the bye, Petey does see a squirrel on the far side of the shed in the first panel. He just knocked over the brace in his haste.

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    palos  over 14 years ago

    Even after his/her/its departure, the shed is aglow!

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    Ermine Notyours  over 14 years ago

    There is a little known even better magnification option.

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    oish  over 14 years ago

    I betcha Capt. Eddie can fill us in. It’s probably one of his enchanted boils that escaped during a Nor’ Eastah

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    vexatron1984  over 14 years ago

    Want to explain how you got that ArthurAllen?

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    SCOTTtheBADGER  over 14 years ago

    Wow! That does magnify much better! Thank Youi!

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    Justice22  over 14 years ago

    Ummm,,, I guess it is just the first of a whole bunch of fireflies.

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    peter0423  over 14 years ago

    ArthurAllen: Second what vexatron1984 said. How did you find out about it, and how can we use it on other strips? Thanks!

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    jahoody  over 14 years ago

    I vote for glowing albino miniature flying elephant!!!

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    ottod Premium Member over 14 years ago

    One thing’s for sure. It seems to have a trunk, so I guess it’s planning on being around for a while.

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    cleokaya  over 14 years ago

    And a little dog shall set it free.

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    jahoody  over 14 years ago

    Horton did hatch an elephant bird. After all, those months on the nest had to have some effect.

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    Logicman  over 14 years ago

    Yeah – it is still glowing inside – does that mean more of his/her/its friends are inside?

    and hey ArthurAllen – how do you do that magnification thing without clicking on your link? Way cool!

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    PhilBob  over 14 years ago

    GOSH,…you don’t think that the obscurity of the glowing, talking wisp might be an intentional tease by the storyteller to whet your appetite for the next installment!? Wiley is a masterful storyteller and knows exactly what he is doing here. One of the reasons I love Wiley’s strip is that special talent that he has for manipulating (in a good way) his readers’ attention for the next day’s installment. Kinda like the way TV shows place their commercials, isn’t it!? Can you say “DUH!?”

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    hereforthehumor115  over 14 years ago

    Great, Kittenpah.

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    kirbey  over 14 years ago

    I was going to say a flying Aardvark, Elephant or Horton but will wait and see… Thanks ArthurAllen ….

    cheers !

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    RadioTom  over 14 years ago

    Two clicks. 1) click the image to get the larger image from the Java app. 2) RIGHT-click the larger image, and select “View Image”.

    That should do it.

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    smoothpate  over 14 years ago

    Thanks Wiley for the call back to the great movie “Up”!!!

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I think we have found “Whoville”.

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I don’t know Charlie Tuba, I think that little elephant with wings is pretty cute! Can’t wait to see what happens next!

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    peter0423  over 14 years ago

    RadioTom said: “Two clicks. 1) click the image to get the larger image from the Java app. 2) RIGHT-click the larger image, and select “View Image”.”

    You must be using Firefox, right? Neither Internet Explorer nor Chrome has a “View Image” right-click option. (Internet Explorer gives an “Open Image” option, but it’s grayed out.) But even in Firefox, when I follow your steps, all it does is open the low-resolution enlarged image in a new tab – not the high-res image we all crave.

    Anyone else?

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    Wildmustang1262  over 14 years ago

    It’s Pixie, the Tinderbell! Oh, wait a minute…..It looks like a white elephant with fluttering wings! Maybe it is a fariytale about a white elephant with fluttering wings.

    Oh drats! :-/

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    ellisaana Premium Member over 14 years ago

    That is one chunky day-glo hummingbird.

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    poohbear8192  over 14 years ago

    I saw a bird with a squiggly beak before and after that terrific enlargement trick. IT does look like something I’ve seen before.

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    nboady  over 14 years ago

    Hint, hint: the key to finding the URL of the really large image is the zazzle.com ad on the page (which you may not see with Firefox, depending on your noscript & adblock settings).

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    ububobu  over 14 years ago

    RadioTom’s hotlink sends you to the following address http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/cd1896706059012d63ce00163e41dd5b?mime=gif

    I guess this is a uclick server but the coding is gibberish to me not being java proficient. I’ll leave it to the experts. However, that image looks a little like one of Pinocchio’s pink elephants.

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    Trebor39  over 14 years ago

    Tinker Bell, is that you?

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    marvee  over 14 years ago

    I think it looks like a bird with a long bill. What is the gold streamer following it? It doesn’t appear to be attached, may have a snake-like tongue and be the source of the glow. Definitely supernatural.

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    Can't Sleep  over 14 years ago

    This looks like a job for Danae’s friend, Lars from Mars!

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    mizcraig  over 14 years ago

    Thank you, Petey! It was beginning to look like the waiting was going to go on forever.

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    Hath1  over 14 years ago

    Thanks nboady!

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    sleepeeg3  over 14 years ago

    Wiley’s vacation is in there. ;)

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    Justice22  over 14 years ago

    What appears to be a “trunk” is actually the opposite wing. There may be a figure actually riding the flying firefly.

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    bobpeters61  over 14 years ago

    I sure would hate to be standing underneath that bird.

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    harrietbe  over 14 years ago

    Or a very large mutant fire-fly?

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    sambo10  over 14 years ago

    I say it’s a mix of a firefly and a miniature elephant. I call it an elefly.

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    Kerovan  over 14 years ago

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 14 hours ago

    A mimmoth stole one of Roger Ramjet’s pills.

    Good one! You combined a reference for Girl Genius and Roger Ramjet and made it work

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    thirdguy  over 14 years ago

    Only Tink,

    It’s been a long time, If I had only known!!

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 14 years ago

    ♪♫ So I guess I’ve seen about everything When I see an elephant fly..♪♫

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    trekkermint  over 14 years ago

    looks like an elephant fairy to me

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    fallacyside  over 14 years ago

    Is it Al Gore’s libido?

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    Ermine Notyours  over 14 years ago

    I found out about the image when the Zazzle ad failed a few months ago, and Richard Thompson, creator of Cul de Sac pointed out that by clicking on the proto-Zazzle ad you get a much more detailed image than is available anywhere else. To find the image on any Uclick comic, search the page source for “zazzle”, then look around that section for code ending in “mime=gif”. Copy and paste that code, from the “http” to “mime=gif” to your address bar, and you can see the image.

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