Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 14, 2022

The way the rock is balanced and the placement of the rope could mean that boulder will fall to the right and roll toward the guy who laid the trap.

Love hurts.

Where’s a dung beetle when you need one??!!

Why Valentine’s Day took time to catch on?!? Because the West had yet to brutally colonize the Rest. Tough love, right there!!

Wiley, thank you for setting me straight yesterday. The thought of losing you took a few years off my life.

The original massacre.

“It’s the hope that will kill you”. – From Ted Lasso

Don’t these guys predate St. Valentine?

SO. . .is someone gonna feel the love tonight??

That reminds me. I need to send my ex a valentines present. Anyone know if Acme delivers?

The Kim Jung Un School of Romance. First, kill the husband and then swoop in on the grieving widow.

Some trivia: The first recorded association of Valentine’s Day with romantic love is in “The Parliament of Fowls” (1382) by Geoffrey Chaucer, a dream vision portraying a parliament for birds to choose their mates, which he wrote honoring the first anniversary of the engagement of fifteen-year-old King Richard II of England to fifteen-year-old Anne of Bohemia: [in modern English]“For this was on Saint Valentine’s DayWhen every bird comes there to choose his matchOf every kind that men may think ofAnd that so huge a noise they began to makeThat earth and air and tree and every lakeWas so full, that not easily was there spaceFor me to stand—so full was all the place.”However, he may have been referring to a different Saint Valentine’s Day — the feast day of St. Valentine of Genoa, which was probably celebrated on 3 May. The treaty providing for Richard II and Anne’s marriage, the subject of the poem, was signed on May 2, 1381. Or, it could have been 14 February, because due to the progression of the equinoxes and the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, Chaucer’s 14 February would have actually be 23 February (Julian calendar), a time when birds started mating and nesting in England. Considering Chaucer’s somewhat impish character, he may enjoyed employed the double entendre .

HIPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!!

Happy Over-Commercialized Manipulative Show of Affection Day!

Tomorrow is Happy Half Price 6 Month Old Chocolates in Fancy Boxes and Slightly Wilted Floral Display Day!

Are you sure?

Gives a whole new meaning to “rock my world”.

Fast forward to 1929 Chicago.

It morphed into April Fools’ Day, appropriately so it seems……

Back in those days, you clubbed your Valentine sweetie over the head with a branch from a cacao tree.

Candy has yet to be invented.

I like this funny version of prehistory and humans.

You really rocked this one Wiley!

No, no, Gruk! I said that if you want a valentine you need to get BOLDER!

Ogg obviously mistook the early Valentine’s Day for April Fool’s Day.

In times long forgotten, that shape is reminiscent of a liver.