Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 25, 2011

Tell me about it!

You can always tell the pioneers by the arrows in their backs …

The origional bagel, and just about as tasty.

I know Edison stole all “his” ideas, but I didn’t know the light bulb went back quite that far! (It even predates electricity apparently…)

Destiny23 @….Good catch

Maybe he’s Uncle Fester… after all, he could make a bulb light up! Then again, perhaps the “wheel” is actually a tightly bound coil of copper that he is going to slide some magnetised rock through and he was trying to figure out what would use the resulting electricity? Or I’m just over thinking things!!

Hiya all!Must stifle all creativity. Maintain status quo.

THere is a fine line between visionary and whacko

Wasn’t GE ahead of it’s time at one time?

Darkfarce – I almost cry thinking that you believe half of the things you type.Timing is everything, but the most successful inventors are able to show that NOW is the time!

Wiley, I love this strip. Period. (My grandpa was ahead of his time. Me, I’m always behind!)

He’s so far ahead of his time, his idea came out as a light bulb instead of a wooden torch.

Us inventors have it rough. lol

Watts he thinking about?

lots of people have the same crazy idea, it’s the few with the bad sense to act on it that change the world.

Fortunately, nearly all of the crazy ideas in the mind of a single person stay there, and never see the light of day. Many things that can be done should never be done…the problem is that we can’t always tell beforehand which things they are.

“Creative” is a better word for it than “crazy”. A creative mind looks at things as they are, thinks “what if…?”, and comes up with a way to try it. If it works, it’s science (or art), and the technology follows. If not, it was just another nutty idea. The proof is in the trying.

Don’t tell you thoughts and ideas to anyone until you get it patended.

I voted for Richard Russell once some time ago….

When the world finally buries the incandescent light bulb for good, will cartoonists switch to a twisty CFL as shorthand for a flash of insight?CFL’s don’t strike me as a very bright idea; perhaps an LED instead…

Woah! I just had a good idea!.Then what happened?.I don’t know. A really bright light appeared, and I forgot my idea!

@Dogsniff, it isn’t making a Big Wheel that will have them singing a different song, it’s becoming one.

I think the humor in the strip is that cave person #2 was reacting to the light bulb (“weirdo”), not the bagel-shaped rock. In panel 3, you see that he is looking up at it.:-D

You’ve been misinformed.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/may/24/government-banning-incandescent-light-bulbs/

I used to think that Freud was a bit off his rocker seeing sex in everything. Some people see politics in everything.

Sometimes a cartoon is, well, a cartoon.

Years driving and stopping ever 500 feet, I learned to bless the sound of a big wheel. I would slam on my breaks, put it in park, and look till I found the sound of that saving siren. Can I even guess the number of tots it saved.

Genius is never appreciated in its own time.

just wondering, does spearcarrier think the guy’s a weirdo because the thing is NOT a light bulb?…

You have to rub bare feet on the bearskin carpet really fast to generate enough static electricity to light the stone bulb!!

According to Zelazny, they would poke sufficient holes in him to ensure the egress of any evil spirits causing such odd behavior.

Ah Wiley – I was thinking the same thing – I got about a third into the post thinking – for once no ploitical comments – then they hit – who would a thought

It’d of been pretty funny to use a torch instead of a bulb.Not that there’s anything wrong with it now…

Radish, what in the blazes are you looking at. I don’t see anything political about this strip.

darkfarce is enthusiastic; mistaken, and misguided, but enthusiastic

It might seem fun but please don’t go trolling like that – it makes people like Darkefarce and FishWit ruin an otherwise pleasant break in the political debate.

@Weasel_Monkey .. you’re half right ..but it’s Fishstix who is Trolling you all .. he’s read all the Ayn Rand novels & now he wants to save Western Civilization from you comic-reading hippie-liberal commies by chastising you each day & expounding his Heroic Vision … which is about Himself.

Got that a little backwards, didn’t ya? Liberals are good at twisting the truth to promote an agenda!

LOL! Good one @rayannina.