Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 04, 2021

Focus groups and hocus pocus are about the same

Since realistically it’s colder up there, the real story is that he left for the Caribbeans.

His consultant can go flack himself

He should have listened to Daedalus.

I think I’m starting to fall.

Welcome to “Flying Too High To Fail”.

Live by the poll; die by the poll!

I like focus groups. I just don’t like them concentrating on my stuff.

A waste of funds to validate what YOU want to Believe.

“I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.” — Randall Munroe

from https://what-if.xkcd.com/30/

Many of the Greek myths are about the consequences of hubris…have a focus group reinforce it still leads to the same outcomes.

BDS

“I want to take you higher. . . " Sly and the Family Stone, of course the following lyrics did follow Icarus’ fate: “Boom laka, laka, laka”

Today it would be someone with a video camera shouting “Higher.”

Another “Hold my beer” moment.

It’s like the Challenger disaster, a materials problem.

Focus groups always bring to mind the one on Fraiser. Poor Tony Shalhoub.

The story about Icarus is about what happens to people who think they “know it all”;then and now.

I want to take you higher

Boom lacka, boom lacka, boom lacka

Ultimately, focus groups are simply a form of other people’s opinion about something. Fundamentally, there are times when what other people think really doesn’t and shouldn’t matter – no matter how much they disagree.

@tygrkhat40 and @198.23.5.11: The more you respond to a troll, the better the chances its remarks have of being elevated to “Featured Comment” status, where it’ll be the only comment that 99% of the visitors to this strip will ever see. Just flag it and move on.

Consultant: Somebody from out of town who will come in to your workplace, spend two weeks asking your employees questions, hand you their answers in neat bullet-point form, and charge you a hundred grand for their “expertise”.

In 1563 Dutch painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder composed his “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”. The painting features several islands, a number of sailing ships, a man plowing a field, a shepherd with his flock, a fisherman …….. and, down in a corner, a small pair of legs sticking out of the sea.

Helios is hot, stay clear.

Uh, they were escaping the island they were on so they would have done this in complete secrecy.

Well, that’s the sort of advice you get from a bunch of people who are hanging around on a street corner near the Home Depot at 2:00 PM on a Tuesday afternoon.

Careful, Icarus.

The problem isn’t the height, it’s the plummeting.

He misunderstood “Go higher Son.”

https://youtu.be/p4w2BZXL6Ss