Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 23, 2011
Transcript:
Joe: I'm so sick of shoveling snow this year... Captain Eddie: Aw, this is nuthin'. Theah was one yeaw up noth.... when it snowed fah two yeaws! I had t'dig down ten feet t'haul in my lobstah traps. Remembah that yeaw, Flo? Flo: Hmm... Wasn't that when you wah given the title as king of shovelin' s- Eddie: Snow. Flo: Whatevah.
comicgos over 13 years ago
Well, someone’s shoveling SOMETHING - that’s for sure!
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
Well, what ever it is, Eddie sure can shovel it.
D-i-c-e-R over 13 years ago
The entire planet turned into a giant snowball and he had to have a team of dogs pull the boat.
thirdguy over 13 years ago
The winter of 77 was extremely cold, the Great South Bay froze so thick, that fishermen drove their trucks out on the ice! In 78 we had 2 blizzards that were well over a foot each. However, in between the two winters, there was a summer!
cdward over 13 years ago
Hey, shoveling is shoveling.
Colt9033 over 13 years ago
It did not snow for two years in Blizzard of 1978, it one big slump that crippled New England for two weeks.
Sandfan over 13 years ago
No matter how long ago that year was, Eddie is still the King of the Shovelers.
roadrunner73 Premium Member over 13 years ago
Hey, wasn’t that the time all the weather scientists were warning that we were going into global cooling? Al Gore was just a boy then.
runninanreadin over 13 years ago
Eddie’s sure got that Ph. D. workin’…(Piling higher and Deeper, that is! lol) It’s been ye-ahs since he got his B.S. (Bull…uhhh, yeah!)
lewisbower over 13 years ago
I’m gathering every Cap’t Eddie story for my history “Down East and Down Deep” English translations will be available.
vzs1022 over 13 years ago
Very clever strip today. I also love reading with the accent.
pawpawbear over 13 years ago
Love it!!!
alan.gurka over 13 years ago
Nice job of editing, Wiley/ Eddie.
fauxment over 13 years ago
@roadrunner73
http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm
Varnes over 13 years ago
Hey, how’d his boat get above the snow? And seriously, Eddie, lobstering through the ice? I’m begining to question Cap’t Eddie’s veracity!
Defective Premium Member over 13 years ago
I really liked today’s strip. That last frame is well done, down to the small smile. Glad I wasn’t in Maine back in 77-78, though. Right now is enough for me.
ilsapadu over 13 years ago
I can remember a year the eye of 3 hurricanes come right over my house whithin 2 months, no snow!
treered over 13 years ago
LOL!
treered over 13 years ago
love panel #2, Paulie ain’t stupid!
galanti over 13 years ago
Don’t you people remember the 1950’s when several hurricanes hit New England? I think it was ‘53 when the eye of one passed over Chatham on Cape Cod.
Justice22 over 13 years ago
It seems I do remember the year when it snowed for two years.
That was when I was working 10 hours a day, ten days a week.
llong65 over 13 years ago
jan 78 snowed 22 inches and the daytime high was still below zero for a week….the Ohio river froze to where you could drive across it.
momazilla over 13 years ago
Jan, ‘78 we had “thundersnow” in Cleveland, That’s when I movd to Houston. No matter how “bad” the weather is here you don’t have to shovel it. Bail it out yes, but not shovel.
themadyank over 13 years ago
Northern Rhode Island was hit with 50 inches in Feb 1978 on top of the 20 inches that was lying around from a storm 2 weeks earlier. That must be the year Eddie remembered.
Trebor39 over 13 years ago
What ever your shoveling, it soon gets tiresome!
pbarnrob over 13 years ago
Liked my Dad’s story about leaving the house through the 2nd-story windows to hike to the store.
The kids would tunnel from the front door all over the yard with a continuous snow-cave - which (of course) disappeared, come Spring.
probligo over 13 years ago
I’m puzzled!
Whatever happened to the old (American) saying about “a snow job” which I think meant pretty much what was not said in that last frame…
I guess…
pouncingtiger over 13 years ago
Good timing Flo.
lindz.coop Premium Member over 13 years ago
Paulie is too smart to go into a snow tunnel.
bmonk over 13 years ago
Besides snow tunnels, we made plenty of snowmen, and snowcats, snow snakes, snowpigs… as well as at least one igloo per winter.
runninanreadin over 13 years ago
I remember a political cartoon about the blizzard of ‘78…it showed an airplane in the box…looking at the plane from above right…the caption read ‘…and the search for Buffalo continues…’…lol