Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 13, 2016

A giant dance to Hokey Pokey.

A tattoo parlor with a medical removal clinic right next door. Owning both of them. My idea for a long time.

Wiley forgot the banks that dole out loans for the first parts.

Most economics is on a take it or leave it basis.

Am I the only one rambling around the GoComics beta site? Or is everyone else, like I was, having a hard time finding the comments section?

Reminds me of one of government’s answers to the problem of unemployment: This one digs a hole, and the next guy comes along to fill it in.

Here’s the full version of that joke:

“There’s an old joke about two construction workers with shovels working at the side of the road. One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other man would come along behind him and fill in each hole. While one was digging a new hole, the other was 10 feet behind him filling in the previous one.

Joe, watching this for an hour and a half from his gas station across the street, finally couldn’t take it any more and walked over to talk with them. “OK, guys, I give up. What’s with all this digging and refilling of holes?”

The two men looked at each other blankly, and then one turned to Joe and said, “Well, we work for the government, and we’re just doing our job — that’s all.”

The two men returned to their shoveling.

“But one of you is digging a hole, and the other is just filling it up again. You’re not accomplishing anything. Aren’t you wasting the taxpayers’ money?”

“Look, Mister”, one of the men told Joe, leaning on his shovel, “it’s not our fault, OK? Normally, there’s three of us — me, Elmer, and Leroy. First I dig a hole, then Elmer sticks a tree in it, and finally Leroy here puts the dirt back. Elmer got laid off yesterday, so now it’s just me and Leroy.”"

(It’s a story about people doing just their job, narrowly speaking, even when that job becomes pointless or even harmful.)

economic response to acting in haste and getting another chance.

The fickleness economy.

My hometown had a bridal shop that was next door to a divorce lawyer’s office.

Thefuneral momes around here are mostly located near the hospital. I wonder why that is.

That’s the American system: if everybody doesn’t keep buying stuff we don’t need, our whole economy falls apart.

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Not to mention that it’s necessary to have a feeding frenzy of consumerism every December, in the name of Jesus.

Wiley forgot the bar next to the tattoo parlor.

Just got back from Florida, with billboards pushing time-shares next to billboards touting time-share buy-backs.

The “dig a hole, fill a hole” goes back to Keynes in the Great Depression who stated that any stimulus would be helpful, even if it involved burying $10 bills in a mine and paying people to dig them up, in order to inject money into the economy. His point was, if that would work, better to do something useful, like the bridges, roads and parks we’re still using today. Same rationale applies to the current situation.

I stand by what I have often said about Wiley’s animus against capitalism.

Doing something or erasing what?

An ode to entrepreneurship. A message for everyone who is waiting for “someone” to give them a job: look for a need and fill it, thereby making your own job.

Back when you could only buy liquor in this state from a few state-owned liquor stores, there was an exercise club and a liquor store side by side. So what do you want to do to your body? Feel good now or feel good later?

In our city they painted the center line all fresh and new and then a week later sprayed tar over it and spread sand on it.

veterinarian / taxidermist: “Either way, you get your dog back.”

1980’s NY subway ads: Enlist and Get Qualified / [Please] Hire a veteran.

Megacorp Limited — creating a need and filling it!

What about the Tumpinomic system? What kind of currency will it be?