Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 12, 2020

YES !! Fist pump. She’s gone. " Bar keep, another beer please "

Then there was the David Steinberg “fractured fairy tale” from the Bible: For punishment for all her crimes, God put a fly in Jezebel’s ear. “A buzz buzz fly,” as David told it. But it turned out that she liked it. So much for the punishment.

(Spoiler alert: There is no such story in the Bible)

“Parting is such sweet sorrow until it be morrow.” Translation: I hate to leave, but I’ll see you tomorrow. So, that’s a very poor break up line.

Who is this ignorant cracker?

Never trust an oxymoron.

At least it wasn’t “this hurts me as much as it hurts you” or “I hate to see you go, but love to watch you leave.”…

Such a lovely couple.

She stayed with him long enough to finish her wine.

O happy dagger, let her be thy sheath!

Shakespeare is credited with many words and phrases in our modern language. (Surprising words!) But to fit in with today’s strip… I will list – Unreal, Swagger, Undress, Lonely, Uncomfortable, and Lackluster. Reading some of these words and phrases… would not be much of a Wild Goose Chase! (Grin!)

Hint, my a.ss. Just say it, don’t filet it.

Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl ‘Will you marry me?’

The girl said, ‘NO!’

And the guy lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles and went fishing and hunting and played golf a lot and drank beer and scotch and left the toilet seat up and belched whenever he wanted.

The End.

I can see why she left, lol.

Guy finds something good in everything. An eternal optimist. That’s a good quality but hard to live with.

It’ll take him a lot of half full glasses to get over this.

He’s beginning to understand Shakespeare?? THANK GOD!!

Persistence is a cornerstone of true love. Unless you’re a stalker. Then it’s creepy and you could go to jail. Sort of a fine line there, I think.

Top of panel two…I thought she evaporated in a puff of logic or something…

Consider yourself fortunate, fella; you’ve seen what’s past the nice after the sugar and spice ran out … and gained a pinch of literary insight in the process.

Here’s an obvious problem dude. if she orders wine, never order a beer for you. Have the same as her. Notice though she finished her wine first before leaving. Means she tried to make it work hoping the drink clouded her vision. You never touched your beer meaning she was too good looking already for you.

If she actually had wine, she obviously downed it quickly, firmly placed the glass on the table, sat back, folded her hands, delivered the chop, and left. He did not read the language set she presented. But he still came away with a nugget of optimism. He’ll find someone who knows his value.

I bet he still keeps calling until she changes her number.

As Romeo speaks the lines, he is saying he can’t bear to leave Juliet. Hardly appropiate language to dump some poor schnook who only wanted love and affection from some cold hearted wench…..oh, sorry, having a flashback. My mistake.

I heard a BBC sitcom bar pickup skit, where a woman prepares to escape. “Go to the bar and buy two more beers.” “OK. But you’ll leave while I’m gone.” “Yes” “What do I get out of it?” “Another beer.”

Well, his evening was not a complete failure.

No, his head is half full …

The line implies a morrow. She’s the one who doesn’t get the Bard.

Little known fact: Many of our popular colloquialisms were invented by Shakespeare.

Lesser know fact: The woman’s second parting line is from the first production of “The Comedy of Errors”.

Never date an Oblivious Idiot ???

She’s the glass is always empty type?

“That means I’d like to set an’ jaw with you a while, but I gotta be movin’ on.” – Andy Griffith