Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 21, 2021

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    saobadao  almost 3 years ago

    Indeed

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    eastern.woods.metal  almost 3 years ago

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Sadly, a non-trivial portion of what we think of as history is almost as fictitious. That’s what happens when it gets written by the victors and the privileged.

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    Concretionist  almost 3 years ago

    Yeah. You are SUPPOSED to make the history report interesting, not the history itself.

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    in.amongst  almost 3 years ago

    I think i empathise with the teacher – the stuff that they might have heard!!!

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    strictures  almost 3 years ago

    That’s a lot more interesting & certainly more fun, than the real story of Thanksgiving, which has been embellished over the centuries.

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    Bilan  almost 3 years ago

    The aliens made the right choice. Pilgrim with cranberry sauce just doesn’t make for a good dinner.

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    danketaz Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    So does this mark the point that Native Americans started eating Pilgrims?

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    TravisTarrant  almost 3 years ago

    Ancient Astronaut theorist believe…

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    Charliegirl Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    You GO GIRL!

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    dshans  almost 3 years ago

    And then the balded eagle imported all kinds of shit from Europe, enslaved many from Africa, displaced then decimated the indigenous and then…

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    Scorpio Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Lars’ family pulling a practical joke on the Apes on the planet next door.

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    Enter.Name.Here  almost 3 years ago

    The goal is to LEARN it and LEARN FROM it, not REWRITE it.

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    lalapalooza Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Sometimes it feels like there is a list of suggestions or some secret newsletter that cartoonists get that has suggestions for any given day. Doonesbury also dealt with alien visitors today.

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    35&45  almost 3 years ago

    a turkey for a turkey___

    Michael Joseph Jackson

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    keenanthelibrarian  almost 3 years ago

    But the bird still ended up in the spaceship …

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    William Bednar Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    I thought Schools weren’t supposed to teach “Critical Race Theory”? Not CRT, you say? Think again.

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    sandpiper  almost 3 years ago

    Whatever. Best of the season to everyone.

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    MIAMIJAC12 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Thank you for perspective, stressful week too many political cartoons today, slowly i learn.

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    Masterskrain  almost 3 years ago

    “As God is my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly!!”

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    Jeffin Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Turk-abduct-kin??

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    mercat1  almost 3 years ago

    The sad part is we’ve been through this before, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get any better. Time to abandon ship – at least on Sundays.

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    mercat1  almost 3 years ago

    After reading these comments maybe it’s time to leave this altogether.

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    uniquename  almost 3 years ago

    The aliens took the intelligent life form.

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    Jaymi Cee Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Meh. It’s no worse than the fiction still being taught. And probably less harmful.

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    mercat1  almost 3 years ago

    Oh, great – I can’t delete my GoComics account. Changing my password to expletives didn’t work either. All I can do is delete this from My Favorites.

    So long.

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    preacherman Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    None of her teachers are like the ones I grew up with. In my time, such a vivid imagination would be applauded and she might be put in the gifted class. Of course, she’d still have to get good marks on her history tests, too, in addition to her imagination.

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    russef  almost 3 years ago

    Wadda ya know. They sent the turkey back.

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    cldisme  almost 3 years ago

    Uncle Eddie gives her an A+. He was unaware of the tractor beam part.

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    notjimothy  almost 3 years ago

    Weren’t they the only ones that could write?

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    Brich027  almost 3 years ago

    Just dig a little deeper, history becomes very interesting and will often disturb you.

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    carlzr  almost 3 years ago

    I read Wiley because he is a superb artist. But his commentary is for the birds. Especially on Thanksgiving.

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    For a Just and Peaceful World  almost 3 years ago

    As a refugee from the blackboard jungle, I would have given her an A and told her to take some creative writing classes at UCLA. Then I would have told her to Google: how much money did Seth MacFarlane make for Family Guy. Then I would have told her to Google: Who is the highest paid screenwriter in the world.

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    Kilrwat Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Interesting how the ‘ping’ sound effect looks like an ‘F’ (I would have given her an A for creativity)

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    Linguist  almost 3 years ago

    There’s a reason they call it History – because it’s all His story!

    No two people remember an event the same way. Everything is viewed through our own filters – which may seem true to us, but are not usually an accurate, historical record.

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    daijoboo Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Danae might find the Native Lands app a way to make history more interesting.

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    Daltongang Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    I would say think that this comic represents the actions of tRump as a child, but sadly it is perfectly depicts how tRump acts now.

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    jimboklein  almost 3 years ago

    Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. I understand the book has become very popular at book-burning events being sponsored by supporters of a certain former “President”

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    mindjob  almost 3 years ago

    Those Indians will be disappointed that the white man doesn’t taste so good.

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    snowedin, now known as Missy's mom  almost 3 years ago

    I like the look on the teacher’s face as she listens to the drivel that is Danae’s report.

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    KEA  almost 3 years ago

    Love the teacher! (I’ve looked like that myself)

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    SandShark Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Looks like somebody has been watching too much History Channel.

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    cjlmm  almost 3 years ago

    You are so very right.

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    Cheapskate0  almost 3 years ago

    I think I‘m with Danae on this one.

    At some point, her imagination has got to be given some credit.

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    Teto85 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    If she were to tell the truth of the Native Americans helping the invader/colonisers survive the first TWO winters without all dying off and then being thanked with their being slaughtered and driven to almost extinction her parents would probably have a meeting with the principal as well.

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    buriedinamber1  almost 3 years ago

    Who helps you tie your shoes?

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    poppacapsmokeblower  almost 3 years ago

    Good historians make reading history interesting, try Shelby Foote, Samuel Morrison, Carl Sandburg, to name a few.

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    mnexplorer+  almost 3 years ago

    This looks like what The History Channel has been giving us lately.

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    willie_mctell  almost 3 years ago

    Not too far from what I learned in kindergarten in 1951. Except for the mode of transportation.

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    Laurie Stoker Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    This was infinitely more interesting! Thanks, Danae!!!

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    bakana  almost 3 years ago

    What’s the problem? That’s pretty close to the way I learned the story.

    Except the Indians let go of the Blanket and stepped back just as he landed.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  almost 3 years ago

    Funny there is no mention of the witches works and the ghouls brought to the old “new” lands. No mention of the Witch Wars and Indian magick wars conjuring up monsters to help and to fight each other.

    Beware of the “devilpedes” that the Massasoit sent to the Puritans to run them out and failed. Then they used the wraiths too and failed again. The magicks of the whites is strong." Said Hu-ho-dusee.

    I want to hear the story about the witches sending fire breathing giant centipedes to the Puritans an for the Pilgrims had to fight off giant meat-eating turkeys along with the dark wraiths the local Wampanoag Indians conjured to remove them from their lands….G’qoulc a Massasoit ghoul told them about it. He was said to be over 300 years old!

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    Mediatech  almost 3 years ago

    History comes in two forms, accurate (and tediously dull) or fascinating (and complete hogwass).

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    JH&Cats  almost 3 years ago

    This is the main point of the story in_Lettice and Lovage._ Not to mention The Mikado: “Merely corroborative detail intended to lend a touch of verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and uninteresting narrative.”

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    lindz.coop Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Like any of it is true anyway…but so much of school is stifling creative thinking.

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    JH&Cats  almost 3 years ago

    In the Diné legend of Turkey (not the Turkish nation, of course, but the American bird), Turkey is the one creature who saves history and stories to take along when all of them have to abandon their world for the next. Or so the stories say.

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    Kali  almost 3 years ago

    Danae’s been around Captain Eddie a bit too long….

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    Mario500  almost 3 years ago

    “PING F”?

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    198.23.5.11  almost 3 years ago

    What I’m wondering is if Pilgrims and Indians really did have a peaceful first Thanksgiving;or if the meal actually ended in a saloon brawl.

    ALso,I think aliens invented brussel sprouts.No Earthman could be that sadistic,

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