Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 21, 2010

Stop it, Wiley. I’ll hurt myself laughing so hard.

Is it just me or does “Mr. Big” look a little like Ross Perot?

Ross Perot? The ears aren’t big enough to be “Wingnut”!

Calling the President the “office temp” really kind of puts things into perspective. However, this particular “office temp” can sure mess things up during their little tenure.

And that’s why they’re office temps. No one does a good enough job to do it full time.

‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’

Reminds me of the very wealthy character in the movie Contact.

Reminds me too—of the movie Contact. I love the term, “Office Temp”.

ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL ……

LOLL

The plot thickens, this guy sounds like he means business. cant wait to see how this ends

LOL Office temp LOL

LOL, Gee Cutiepie… you act like the new Temp made the mess instead of being the one who has to clean up after the old one who made it…. ahh the poor memory ….

It will be hard to top today’s strip. Excellent.

yup, pretty bleeep funny..

Office Temp! Ha ha ha!!! I think that will be my new name for all presidents henceforth.

Brilliant!

LOL!

I told you all! It IS Professor Obfuscate.

he he he ehh ehe he. office temp.

Lapdogs & Office Temp. Very nice.

I kind of thought it looked like Alan Greenspan, too.

LOL!—this is getting too good.

WILEY FOR OFFICE TEMP!

ROFLMAO!

NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

oops, wrong line.

positively magnificent. made a bad day, feel great. Uh-ho I feel something fluttering by. OH NO!!!

Thanks Baslim! Here’s the back story:

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2005/11/27

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2005/12/04

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2005/12/11

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2005/12/18

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2005/12/25

Thanks, Baslim and Hath1! I think you’re right.

I’m confused today (everyday). If the lapdogs make the rules, why does everyone blame the office Temp for enforcing them? Only one name to remember? But but but I thought half the lapdogs were up for re-election. You mean they hope we won’t remember? Oh, remember their name, not what they did.

I never even thought of the President as a temp. I just love how Wiley puts everything into fresh perspective.

The President gets his job for four years and if he’s lucky, four more. Yes, he is a temp.

Remember the observation by Douglas Adams. Those elected guys are there just to confuse you about who’s really in power.

Giant yacht, remote island, bald guy. Could it be Paul Allen?

Trebor39: “if he’s lucky”

I wouldn’t consider myself lucky getting stuck with that job. I’d rather serve jury duty for four years…

this is so great

I can’t wait for tomorrow!

remember the 80s when the guy in the oval office was called the acting president?

Thanks for the links! Definately Prof. Obfuscate!

Hath1, thanks for the links to a brilliant storyline.

The end of the world? 2012 coming right up. So THIS is the beginning of the end. I wonder how big an ekert can get. Is there just one?

Your best story ever! An outbreak of niceness is what this world needs right now! I seldom LOL because I usually see the punch line coming. My curse. (after 82 years, few things surprise me) I like following your story lines.

“Gather the lapdogs!” falls off chair laughing hysterically.

On the panel, how can the fatter yacht speed up so fast?

Whatevaaahhh!

No need to start calling names. There have been many (and will be many more) “office temps” and the like who do things that most people don’t like. Hindsight is 20/20. We cannot go back in time and change things so the best course of action is to do what we can to fix what is wrong now. And yes I do like my rose colored, pollyanna view of the world. It is the only thing that keeps me sane.

ROFLMAO

Folks, you who tend towards partisanship, you must realize that if we have lap dogs and office temp in Washington today, we must have had them all along. What I am saying is B/C were just as helpless/hapless as anybody else unlucky enough to get to Washington. I think the days of true hope are over.

Thanks for the perspective, Wiley. No-one has ever put it so succintly.

The “Ekert” is fantasy. God save us all.

Terrifying humor. Regardless of who is in the White House or who is in Congress, the Fed answers to no one.

For what it’s worth, having a healthy political debate has value. Descending to puerile ad-hominem attacks because you disagree with someone else’s position reduces the entire arena to a mud wrestle. It’s a choice.

jhouck99 said, I wouldn’t consider myself lucky getting stuck with that job. I’d rather serve jury duty for four years

The only good presidents we have had are the ones who did not want to be there.

I have a suggestion: when we espy the next incarnation of our friend from Tulsa, let’s not identify him, OK? Let’s just enjoy his comments for what they are.

I’m as guilty as the next person, of course. I just never thought it’d lead to his comments being purged.

This day would qualify for a Pulitzer….or is that Wurlitzer….so many in agreement !!! ;0)

love it! thanks!

Wiley; in my mind your the Dennis Miller of cartoon strips. He uses the English language to to take the air out of people who are to full of themselves or way to partisan. And keep things light and humorous so that we the viewers or readers don’t become so full of ourselves. Keep up the humorous work, especially the cartoons where the backdrop is the local tavern or bar. Those are my favorite. Thank you.

I bow in awe!!! Wiley is out there reading our comments! But I have to agree: “lap dogs” and “office temp” are great names no one else has ever used. Brilliant! No wonder he has “GENIUS” after his name. :)

The President is not a temp, he has a 4-year contract renewable for 4 years more.

office temp: Dave, 1993, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106673/

Broke a rib laughing…thanks, Wiley….*ow*

“…just the end of our world.” From a guy on a “yacht” the size of a cruiser. Corporate executive alert! Likely the arms industry–and I don’t mean mannequins or prosthetics.

Creniere Hope you see this! Whatever that avatar is, I LOVE IT!,

Wiley, this one is wicked clever! Love it!

The new office temp finds a note from his predecessor on his oval office desk: “There are two envelopes in the upper drawer. When you are in trouble for the first time, open the first envelope. When you are in a big trouble for the second time, open the second envelope.”

After a few months, he gets into trouble, so he finds the envelopes and opens the first envelope one: “Blame me as your predecessor.” He does so, and the troubles pass.

A couple of years later, he gets into big trouble again and opens the second envelope.

It says: “Prepare two envelopes…”

LOL, Wiley! Thanks for the laugh!

Okay I just stopped laughing at this. Almost peed myself too. What a great! cartoon.

In my newspaper, this strip appears as a square of 2 x 2 panels and loses a lot of the impact of panels 2 & 3 being juxtaposed. Gives a real clear example of how art can and is lost by an editorial decision!

Dry…Thanx. It’s a cassowary’s lovely face…big bird from Down Under.

I believe Wiley stole the temp comment from “Dave.” One of the great political satires/mature romances of the last few years.

Interesting, That boat is way to top heavy to ever actually work.

-From an inside-the-beltway native, be sure that “office temp” is how many of us think of the Pres, and all the political types.

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Oh, very good. I like this one; how appropriate.

Absolutely stupendous. Thanks Wiley. Love the “Darkness of Nice” comment.

Wiley takes over the traditional metaphor of the republic as “the ship of state.” He substitutes a monstrous, unseaworthy “yacht” for the republic and has its insanely self-absorbed owner (who stands for the selfish financial interests?) say this is TEOTWAWKI.

Pretty maudlin; you have to wonder why so many readers find this a delicious put-down of government. It’s just a power-mad dreamer fancying that the POTUS works for him, when in fact the POTUS works for the people. What president (other than FDR, perhaps) ever pretended to be more than a “temp”?

stebon: Are you urging us to switch from a republic controlled by the people to a theocracy where we’ll all “thank God”?

Thanks for the links to the old strips, had forgotten them.

bmonk - Great joke thanks.

Thanks so much Wiley (and at your request I’ll refrain from the partisan comment I wanted to make) ;-P

Hey, hey, hey! I resent the personal attacks on me.

If you read something partisan into my original comment, that is on YOUR shoulders, not mine. All I said is that “this particular office temp”, referring to the office of President and not to whomever is filling said office at any given time, is able to create a whole lot of mess in the four to eight years he/she is allotted.

I say he/she because even though there has not yet been a woman elected to the office, they very well may be and I don’t want to be accused of being exclusionary. Wouldn’t want to have people assuming I am some “vapid airhead” with a bad memory, would I.

tcolkett said, about 15 hours ago

Cutiepie is aptly named. A vapid airhead that completely missed what Cheney/Bush did to this country.

Not that it is really any of your business, tcolket, but Cutiepie is my husband’s pet name for me, and is a term of endearment. You likening me to a “vapid airhead” based solely on how you interpreted that nickname is insulting and degrading. I take extreme offense. I am a college-educated woman who reads current events on a very regular basis (and not limited to just a single source, either). I am no more unaware of “what Bush/Cheney did to this country” than I am unaware of what Obama/Biden are doing to it now and what Clinton/Gore did to it previously. By the way, it is proper etiquette to write the President’s name first in such a pairing, no matter whom you believe to have actually been in charge (yes, I did catch your intentional slight of Mr. Bush).

Stick to the comic in question when posting your comments, and avoid personal attacks on ANYONE.

I agree with the last cutiepie29! No one should attack anyone in a forum like this… It’s a place of refuge from the real world…

Best comic feature outside of Tom Tomorrow! (er…and maybe Tom Toles).

Flagged that spammer!

I can’t help but notice that the bulk of the comments are directed at the “office temp” rather than the “lapdogs.”

Say’s something don’t you think, when people focus on the action of one individual when we – collectively – elect another 535 (100 Senate, 435 House) to participate in the process.

This is such an awesome strip- but the Ekert theme is fabulously brilliant. I have not laughed out for so long as seeing this. Thank you Wiley & keep up the good work. I can’t wait to see where this is going.