Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 05, 2011

How many times can Danae use that excuse?

I don’t think it’s the judicial system that’s the source of the migraines …

Well it’s better than “I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.”

Question for Wiley: Who controls the coloring of the strip? http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/6b255140f5ac012da5c700163e41dd5b?mime=gif

I don’t think so either, rayannina

If only more parents would ask the question…

Danea doesn’t like learn at school. Maybe its not challenging for her. She seems smarter than your average kid.

Judge: “One more outburst like that and I’ll have to gag you!” Defendant: “Your honor…” Judge: “Gag him!” Bailiff: “Who was that lady I saw you with last night?” Prosecutor: “That was no lady…”

(Firesign Theatre, “Don’t Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers” Funny where the mind goes when reading this strip)

As I’m reading this strip, there is a commercial on my TV from a lawyer wanting to sue people on my behalf. I feel a headache coming on.

At least Danae can use proper language and correct spelling which is more than I can say for some cartoonists.

Keep it up Mr. Miller.

Is her backpack as big as she?

^ Most kids have backpacks that are heavy for me with 3 to 4 hours of homework.

Yep, puddle. We’re all bozos on this bus.

Variation on a classic alibi: “I couldn’t have killed Mr. Felnor. I was busy stabbing Mr. Miller across town.”

Can I say that to my better half?

Did the gag order have anything to do with The Funniest Joke in the World?

comicsgo - with Danae, you’d be surprised how many times she’s seen a judge! LOL

FILMLESS – I know what you mean. My son’s backpack weighes about the same.

It was so thick and heavy, it could double as body armor.

Poor Miss McGarry to have such an erudite student that is always one step (at least) ahead.

Thanks Wiley, made me laugh out loud again & still loving my desk calender.

Comicsgos - Danae only has to use the excuse once. She has others up her sleeve!

When I was a teenager, weighing 150 pounds, I’d backpack in the Sierras with a 60-70 pound pack. The 10% rule seems pretty random to me.

@filmless, a local school system is now banning the use of backpacks–in school. They say there’s time between classes to go to the lockers and exchange books. But they are still allowed from school home and back.

The American Occupational Therapy Association recommends limiting the weight of the backpack to no more than 15 percent of the child’s weight, not 10 percent. Maybe eReaders or iPads will help. But I really have problems with the idea of parents urging school boards to cut back on homework. I guess @filmless has no concern over the dumbing down of American education.

Now, I can’t help myself…..”It looks like a big fried egg!”

Then they had the sing in favor of Political (Groucho) Marx and Lennon

galanti, read what she said: “I wasn’t against the work but rather wanted the books to be available on-line so the students could access them at home and do the work…”

She did not want the homework to be cut back–only an alternative to lugging the whole stack of books back and forth every day.

@Galanti, I have problems with the dumbing down of American Education as well, but my daughter is a high school junior and she routinely has to carry home 3-4 books weighing 8-10 lbs each. Can they compartmentalize the books some? Find something half that size for the first semester and vol 2 for the second? Her chemistry and algebra books could be swung from a chain to take out buildings…

@Wiley, I love this strip. How long till you hang up your pen? Seems like everytime I find a new favorite they retire…

How can you be two places at once, when you’re not anywhere at all?

does that mean that we’re going “forward into the past”? if we are, then mr. presiden, i have a question for you. “why does the porridge bird lay its eggs in the air”?

I don’t blame Danae. That’s a silly assignment. Anyone with Danae’s cleverness and creativity would resist such a bland way of spending the 15-20 min. it would take to complete it. It would be interesting to see what would happen if Danae had a teacher that would give creative writing assignments or assign reading that was actually interesting. (Of course then this wouldn’t be a comic strip as much as an education guidebook.) I’m all into the importance of homework (and was pretty good at it in my time), but I always thought that the “what I did last summer” assignments were pretty inane, even when I was the proper age for them. I hope Danae makes up a good story for how she spent the last two weeks.

I don’t understand how the amount of homework given to our kids is increasing yet the quality of education & the overall knowledge base of todays students are both at a measurably worse level than back when I was a student?!?

Prime example: spelling, grammar and punctuation are not a concern for teachers as long as “the students can adequately communicate their ideas and meaning”.

Know wots rong wyth thet???

No–watt iz wrung wit taht? Werks oKay bye mee.

Back when Ah was a young-un, when we walked 6 miles in 2 feet of snow barefoot and uphill both ways, the girls and sissies carried their books in both hands towering from their waist to their chins. Us cool kids used one hand and a hip for our one or two books. How come they got bigger houses than us?

I think Danae is modeled after my oldest granddaughter.

@puddleglum:

George Tirebiter: “That was no lady, that was Bottles!”

Prosecutor: “Bottles?”

George Tirebiter: “Yes, it got so I’d drink almost anything.”

@bmonk - I think we need an intervention to cure sayhowURfeeling of their comma addiction!

@Lewreader - my brother used to have TWO bags of books to take to and from school. Then again, he now has a PHD and works as a research physicist… while running a highly successful investment business on the side. Oh, and he speaks three languages (as well as English) plus dabbles as a concert pianist in his spare time. But I’ve got more hair than him! :)

Hahahahahahhaha good one Danae

Miss McGarry was my fifth grade teacher – but she was a “Mrs” back then and not nearly so old – how could it have happened?