Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 03, 2020

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    Kveldulf  almost 5 years ago

    I thought I could

    I thought ……………

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    RAGs  almost 5 years ago

    Not enough armor on the dillo.

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    AllishaDawn  almost 5 years ago

    Bad choice of coloring. I thought it was the truck thinking it could. Didn’t make sense.

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    HidariMak  almost 5 years ago

    That’s why there are more than a few people. whose last words were “hey y’all, watch this”.

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    mr_sherman Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Especially in Texas.

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    Enter.Name.Here  almost 5 years ago

    “I think I can!

    I think I can!

    I think I can!

    I … (SPLAT!!)

    I think that hurt!

    I think that hurt!

    I think that hurt!

    I think….."

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    gopher gofer  almost 5 years ago

    his last words were, here, hold my beer a sec…

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    Nachikethass  almost 5 years ago

    I couldn’t!

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    Concretionist  almost 5 years ago

    Armadillos are naturally optimistic because they can avoid most predators by simply rolling up. Kinda like porcupines and skunks, but with defense rather than offense. But they all splatter pretty much the same when a ton of plastic rubber and steel hits them at 60+ mph.

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    Russell Hauser  almost 5 years ago

    Their other survival skill is to jump straight up to startle predator’s, this doesn’t usually work out when the predator is a semi truck. Armadillos are one of Florida’s favorite road kills.

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    dadoctah  almost 5 years ago

    Armadillos represent an evolutionary glitch. A creature that developed to resemble a speed bump.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Optimists are often disappointed, pessimists are occasionally pleasantly surprised when something good happens. The rest of the time we know things won’t work and are not surprised by it.

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    Kaputnik  almost 5 years ago

    I wish the deer around here were less optimistic. Although so far I’ve avoided disillusioning them personally.

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    Aaberon  almost 5 years ago

    I never wondered about armadillos until now. https://www.livescience.com/52390-armadillos.html

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    sbg1220  almost 5 years ago

    Once on a road trip we counted dead armadillos vs. small town WalMarts. I think the armadillos won!

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    Yardley701  almost 5 years ago

    Poor animal.

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    dot-the-I  almost 5 years ago

    Upon reading New Year edition op-eds, the pessimists do seem to predominate.

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    Egrayjames  almost 5 years ago
    Armadillo….aka Texas road bump.
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    dflak  almost 5 years ago

    In most cases of skunk road kill, the skunks are facing in the direction of traffic.

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    JamieLee Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    LOL

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    MS72  almost 5 years ago

    Kinda resembles Bernie Sanders.

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    bbenoit  almost 5 years ago

    At least the armadillo’s not staring at a cellphone while walking into traffic. Few weeks ago I was standing in line, waiting for the next available check-out, when the women in front of me had to physically prod her husband to look up from his phone as he was holding up the line. There were three check-outs available…

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    Will_Scarlet  almost 5 years ago

    Not like pessimism ever improved quality of life either.

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    garcoa  almost 5 years ago

    The human parallel to this is the oncoming traffic passing cars despite the solid line at the crest of a hill (or a blind curve).

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    marilynnbyerly  almost 5 years ago

    Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the armadillo it can be done.

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    Colorado Expat  almost 5 years ago

    Why did the chicken cross the road?

    To show the armadillo it could be done!

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    Al Nala  almost 5 years ago

    I’ve read somewhere that armadillos have a jump reflex that gets them two feet off the ground…high enough to get hit and punted off by the vehicle.

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    sandpiper  almost 5 years ago

    The optimist anticipates the sunrise. The pessimist becomes George Carlin

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    the lost wizard  almost 5 years ago

    Optimist-Maybe next time.

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    DCBakerEsq  almost 5 years ago

    If you’re a pessimist, you’ll never be disappointed. :)

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    thelordthygod666  almost 5 years ago

    In a career where eating each year meant coming up with new services and products that customers would buy, I’d say I was led more by “Keep throwing [stuff] against the wall until something sticks” rather than optimism.

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    Lablubber   almost 5 years ago

    Disarmadillo.

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    COL Crash  almost 5 years ago

    But Realism is!

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    phoenixnyc  almost 5 years ago

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    tad1  almost 5 years ago

    Optimism is a good trait to have, but it should be balanced with a good dose of common sense.

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    tad1  almost 5 years ago

    Just once, I’d like to see a cartoon that portrays pessimism in a negative light.

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    arthropod7  almost 5 years ago

    Non-political today? Then I must be the only one who sees an image in the exhaust above the stack?

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    CoffeeLvr  almost 5 years ago

    I always hated that story about the damn train. As a kid and as a parent.

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    dsjwriter  almost 5 years ago

    After having a life defined by timidity, the armadillo wanted to come out ohf his shell in the worst possible way. Mission accomplished.

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    Debra Gilbert Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Texas Speedbump

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    willie_mctell  almost 5 years ago

    You can be anything you want to be if you just try hard enough. :-)

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    Jml58  almost 5 years ago

    The chicken is waiting on the other side.

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    fgerbil46  almost 5 years ago

    Not really funny. Kind of Dark and Depressing.

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    donwalter  almost 5 years ago

    Nothing quite as subtle as an armadillo crossing the highway, down south…

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    Frank Ragsdale  almost 5 years ago

    This cartoon makes it seem as though armadillos die on roads because they are slow afoot. Not true! Like squirrels, they are fairly fast. Unfortunately, also like squirrels, their eyesight and/or brains do not work well when crossing high speed traffic.

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    tgerci  almost 5 years ago

    It was obvious that the animal was betting its life against a truck slogging against a hill.

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    tinstar  almost 5 years ago

    There is a lot of truth in this particular strip, today. For 18 months, I was stationed in Louisiana, and I never saw a live one!

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