Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 31, 2021

An ugly way to die.

I seem to not breathe them in, at least very seldom that I notice. But when they get into my eye and start wading around, THAT is seriously annoying. (And come to think of it, I’ve been sneezing a lot lately. Hmm).

It’s when they wiggle around in your lungs that’s really annoying

Is this a thinly-veiled coronavirus allegory?

Well, I guess to a gnat, every nose will look like a cave the way Han Solo thought he thought he found a good place on that asteroid to hide the Millennium Falcon in the Empire Strikes Back!

I remember eating a gnat when I was little. It was surprisingly sweet.

TMI

No gnats is good gnats.

Gnat John Boy

Yup, the screaming nose is a dead give away.

I once saw a soloist singing a hymn in church, illuminated by a single small spotlight. But the thing that mesmerized everyone was a fly, circling and circling his head. At the end of the song, several things happened more or less simultaneously.

The singer was giving voice to a drawn-out Amen. (As in Aaaahhhh-men!)

The fly passed in front of his open mouth… and vanished.

The singer faltered momentarily, Aaaahhhh >¥< men!

So what everyone heard was: Aaaahhhh-ick-men~ISWALLOWEDAFLY!!!!.

Convulsive hilarity consumed all of those present.

Next on The Tonight Show stay tuned for The Screaming Noses! As they perform their big hit If Snot for You!

Bug’ll get a free ride when he sneezes.

As we used to say: EWWWWWW! GROSS!!!!!

Skullunking, is a gnat rite of passageNasal passage

It hurt like #### when they got into my ear and stuck on the eardrum.

I think the dog is trying to tell him something.

Men especially have a problem with large snouts and inadequate mask coverage.Oh, the bugs come in and the germs come out, making covid a likely killer no doubt about.

That reminds me, does anyone remember the show “Land of the Giants”? I think it was around the same time as “The Time Tunnel”.

Not the nose, straight into the eyeballs.

One of the problems with jogging. You sometimes swallow a bug. One of the problems about jogging at 5 AM – you’re the first one down the sidewalk since the night before and you get to meet the spider webs face on.

Somebody’s always trying to get up your nose.

I ride through clouds of gnats sometimes on my bicycle. That’s when I breathe through my teeth. They serve as a sieve.

And why are they swarming? Have the just hatched or are they looking for a partner?

My nose doesn’t scream, but the whistling keeps me up at nights.

My sister-in-law once got a fly in her ear. That thing buzzed around for a week or two, until it finally died. I don’t know why the doc couldn’t get it out.

Be careful around those killer gnats, they really can be dangerous to some people. One time my (former) wife was surrounded by a cloud of gnats in our backyard. We didn’t think much about it, until every exposed part of her body started turning blotchy red and swelling up – arms, legs, face. After a short time she said she was having trouble breathing and swallowing, not to mention the itching. We were lucky to live only a few blocks from the hospital, where the ER doctor gave her a heavy dose of antihistamine. It was a scary few hours until her body settled down again.

FUNNY!

Hey, getting bugs in your nose, eye or mouth is no fun

I lived for many years in Sedona, Az. where we never had mosquitos to worry about but were plagued twice a year with cedar gnats – or no-see-ums as they are commonly called. These tiny little buggers travel in huge swarms, bite and can hurt and itch even more than mosquitos. Oh, and most repellants don’t bother them at all – even the oft-touted Avon Skin So Soft which can repel humans better than keeping away gnats!

I’ve seen blue woolly gnats, but never a green woolly gnat.

LMAO!!!!!!!

It’s the ears! When we were stationed at Roosevelt Roads from 1993 to 1995, the boys were the perfect age for soccer, T-ball, and little league. The blood-thirsty midges were always there waiting to feast on the parents, and for some reason they went straight for my ears!

It was bad enough that my husband’s command was also the ONLY command that deployed from that place! Some “shore duty” he was gone for 50% of the two years we were there! The only thing was he didn’t have the usual pre-deployment work-ups that take weeks to months in addition to the 6 to 7 months long deployment.

Around here they’re called “snow flies” because 4-6 weeks after they swarm, the snow flies.

And gnats the way it is. G’night and g’news. —- Walter’s brother Nat on local news

Another new phenomenon brought to you by the climate crisis: gnats in November.

Once shared a flight with a South Asian religious extremist. He was an extreme Jain, so pro-life that he wore a mask to avoid killing insects by swallowing them.

I must be lucky – have never run into a gnat, or had one run into me.

This is the funniest one in ages! Good one!

You may have heard that we get a lot of flies here in Australia. Try swallowing them.

Brand new motorcyclist quickly learn to ride with their mouths shut. You ain’t lived until you swallow a bug at highway speeds 8^)

“Nobodies nose the sorrow I’ve seen”

Very funny! Love the Wiley Gnats. And the dog is adorable.

Been there. Blown my nose.

I didn’t see that coming! It’s a good thing I make a practice of not taking a drink while I’m reading the comics, or I would have choked!!!

Depends on where you are, for what they are called

I once had a gnat get into my ear for nearly an hour before I could get it out.

It. Was. The. Worst. Tortured. Experience. I’ve. Ever. Had.

What’s really fun is on an evening bike ride (not motor) and you ride through a cloud of the buggers and inhale/swallow a big handful at once. Along with some in your eyes. Truly summer fun.