Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 07, 2011
Transcript:
Kate: Wow... you're interested in learning to cook? Danae: No... Kate: Then why are you watching a cooking show? Danae: 'Cuz they use some great words that are fun to say out loud, and when you say them over and over, they get to sound even funnier! Voice: First, we'll butterfly the pork loin, then flatten it out... Danae: *Giggle* Yes! Pork loin! Pork loin... pork loin pork loin... Joe: Uh... what now? Kate: Planet Danae has gone into a new orbit of weirdness.
freeholder1 over 13 years ago
Clam sauce always makes me giggle.
comicgos over 13 years ago
Is that possible?
freeholder1 over 13 years ago
And she can root for Marcel next time, too.
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
It’s a pork fat thing….I think.
Sushi’s a word that’s just dying to be repeated……but not actually eaten - not by me at least.
thirdguy over 13 years ago
Just keep her away from Emeril!!
grapfhics over 13 years ago
au Jus, that means funny, right?
pbarnrob over 13 years ago
Take any word and repeat it like a mantra, over and over and over, and before long, it will become funny - or profound, I forget which…
Coyoty Premium Member over 13 years ago
Bieber Bieber Bieber Bieber Bieber… Yep, funny. Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck… Nope, not profound.
ChukLitl Premium Member over 13 years ago
Wiley, getting ideas from Zippy? Oh, well. You’re more original more often than most. We all have off days.
lewisbower over 13 years ago
Kneed the breast. Need the breast. Kneed the breast.
As a young man, I cooked along with Graham Kerr and Julia. I was great with a cork screw.
hawgowar over 13 years ago
Why is there breast of chicken or turkey, but not of beef or lamb?
celeconecca over 13 years ago
evoo, yum-o, joy of the mountain: thank you, Rachel Ray
Wiley creator over 13 years ago
“Wiley, getting ideas from Zippy?”
Since I don’t get Zippy in my paper, therefore, haven’t seen it in years, no. So what did Zippy do that struck you as being similar to the point of your feeling the need to make such an insulting accusation?
oish over 13 years ago
How about “optical”. When said consecutively out loud, it sounds like a horse gallop.
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, upon a slitted sheet I sit
CaptXpendable over 13 years ago
One of Zippys shticks is to get stuck on a word or phrase that takes his fancy and repeat it over and over like he’s caught in a loop. I’m just chalking it up as a coincidence unless you also have Danea take a sudden interest in watching laundry in tumble dryers.
prrdh over 13 years ago
Coyoty said, about 5 hours ago
Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck…
Stop, you’re making me thirsty.
Although truth be told, I prefer Zlaty Bazant.
alan.gurka over 13 years ago
Originally, I thought she meant using “butterfly” as a verb was funny. “Butterfly the pork loin.”
puddleglum1066 over 13 years ago
Anybody remember the Animaniacs:
Lake Titicaca, Lake Titicaca It’s between Bolivia and Peru. Lake Titicaca, Lake Titicaca, With waters tranquil and blue. Lake Titicaca, Lake Titicaca, Why do we sing of its fame? Lake Titicaca, Lake Titicaca, We really like saying its name! Titicaca!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJxdL0pH9pw
KEA over 13 years ago
I’ve found that if repeated a sufficient number of times, any word loses all meaning.
grinstoya over 13 years ago
Rutabaga!
bmonk over 13 years ago
how about the Geographical Fugue?
1084897 over 13 years ago
Re: Breast of Beef or Lamb. There are such, they are just not as ubiquitous as those of fowl. Breast of Beef is usually called Brisket and is widely used in Corned Beef and Pastrami. Breast of Lamb is readily available from butchers and can make mighty fine eating. See the following sites for information and recipes.
www.foodsubs.com/MeatBeefB&F.html www.ehow.com/how5117441cook-breast-lamb.html
odeliasimone over 13 years ago
Who the H is Zippy? Never heard of that one!!!!
yuggib over 13 years ago
odeliasimone said: ” Who the H is Zippy?”
Now THAT’S funny, repeated or not!
stevetalley7497 over 13 years ago
I recall (but can’t find) something similar in Bloom County and the word ‘quonset hut’ quonset hut quonset hut quonset hut quonset hut .
bmonk over 13 years ago
I wonder if the word “mantra” does this?
Can't Sleep over 13 years ago
The very idea of a butterflied pork loin is troubling; sort of like a cross between Tinkerbell and a pig with wings.
I’m with WILEY on this – he’s had way too many ‘I read that in Calvin & Hobbes’, and now Zippy. Zippy, for crying out loud!
Accusing an award-winning cartoonist of palagarism is serious stuff. And pretty bleeep unlikely.
Can't Sleep over 13 years ago
Hey, I’ve been bleeped! And it wasn’t even a dirty word!
(Geez, they even mispelled ‘bleep.’ Can’t recognize a clean expletive and can’t spell either. So much for artificial intelligences.)
runninanreadin over 13 years ago
Abondanza…(what’s even funnier is when you plug that in here: http://www.freetranslation.com/)
Nelly55 over 13 years ago
breast of beef would be udderly icky
alan.gurka over 13 years ago
Try repeating “toy boat.”
mrneophyte over 13 years ago
Hey, Wiley, you can find “Zippy the Pinhead” in the comics section of the Washington Post. It is an acquired taste.
Wiley creator over 13 years ago
Yes, I know about Zippy, I just haven’t seen it in years, as it’s not carried by my newspaper.
Defective Premium Member over 13 years ago
Please don’t insult Wiley! Just chalk this up as a ‘The Simpson’s Did It!’ South Park coincidence. It’s still funny.
Given enough time, monkeys will type Shakespeare. Not that either writer is a monkey. I’m not throwing around insults, either, just references.
This just goes back to my other thought that there are no original thoughts any more, and that all things will be reused, eventually.
treered over 13 years ago
who said “there is nothing new under the sun”? it may be true, but I still want to see what Danae does next!
Biltil Premium Member over 13 years ago
mmmmm pork loin…….
freeholder1 over 13 years ago
Russel, how udderly true about cows not having breast meat.
freeholder1 over 13 years ago
Read Clarke’s “The Longest Science Fiction Story Ever Told” fro a take on stuff being repeated.
I suspect Wiley doesn’t need a plagerism suit so the implications are why he’s been “touchy.”
Siberman over 13 years ago
@ Coyoty: It simply amazes me how someone can take the words of a pre-pubescent comic character concerning a cooking show and turn them into a political commentary.
Then again , what can you expect from someone who can’t even spell their avatar’s name properly ?
It’s “coyote” in American English and Spanish. “Coyotl” in Nahuatl (from whence the modern name derives).
ilsapadu over 13 years ago
Here I’ve been called and all I got is, apparently I missed Zippy.
artybee over 13 years ago
Didn’t “Zippy the Pinhead” get its start as an underground comic for acid-heads? Weren’t LSD-users often referred to as “pinheads?”
JP Steve Premium Member over 13 years ago
If Danae were watching chef Gordon Ramsay she could learn a lot of really funny f*ing words!!
vldazzle over 13 years ago
Yes, I LOVE all the cooking shows (competitive) and enjoy all the recipies - not the sushi or other things that normal people find disgusting. I love to cook good healthy foods that are yummy.
ChukLitl Premium Member over 13 years ago
Wiley, I did not mean to imply plagiarism, the part about “more original more often than most” was sincere & I love your work. I’ve tried to write, originality is hard. I guess I’m the one with the “off day.”
For those asking; “Who’s Zippy?” from Wiki, “Zippy made his first appearance in Real Pulp Comix #1 in March 1971. The strip began in The Berkeley Barb in 1976 and was syndicated nationally soon after, originally as a weekly strip. It has been a daily feature since 1985, distributed by King Features Syndicate.
It’s often unintelligible, on rare occasions profound, & this strip is a recurring theme.