Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 08, 2022

Why a ball-peen hammer in particular? A claw hammer won’t do?

Well boredom is a choice, and Danae is not know for making the best choices.

Danae, ball peen hammer, and a freshly dented time machine?

Normally, Christmas day is not boring until your uncle injures himself playing ping-pong.

Hope that hasn’t anything to do with bringing said hammer into close contact with a certain friend of yours.

The choice of gangsters in every movie from ’30’s and 40’s. Usually found in their movie set garages copied from actual crime scenes with the bulletproof limos, cutting torches, tire irons, oil drums, and sacks of cement.

She doesn’t have a clue. She needs to be careful about threatening Jeffrey. He can zap her back to her first second as a cell and she’ll have to repeat her life to this point. Talk about bored?

This reminded me of like the 6th grade when you believed the smart kids were really going to make something great for the science project, but it ended up being just a thing that sat there doing nothing.

A dinner date with Jeffrey Dahlmer?

As I’ve heard once, “If you’re bored, it’s probably because you’re boring.”

So you can’t use the D-word here?

riveting!

When I was little – maybe four years old – my dad would give me a piece of wood, some nails, and a ballpeen hammer. I’d bang away, making forests, and building little houses from L braces, with roofs made of those zigzag nails. (I know they have a proper name, but I don’t know what it is.) Happy as a clam for hours.

I hope she doesn’t hit herself in the head with that hammer

What is the world does she know about the ball peen hammer? For that matter, how does she know anything about the ball peen hammer? Maybe that was something covered in her Weekly Reader.

See, if you think about it long enough, you really can find something fun to do. At least fun for you.

That can’t really be much of time machine… it’s not nearly big enough on the inside 8^)

There we go – I knew we’d get to the heart of the matter

I reckon ball peen is not as messy.

Maybe she should change her name to “Anne Wee”. :)

After she’s what? After she’s deaf? After she’s dealing blackjack in Vegas? After she’s dean of a university? After she’s….no more, ceased to be, gone to meet her maker (changed to “meet Dr. Chapman” in the 2014 “Eric needs the money because he got sued by a Holy Grail producer over Spamalot-based royalties” tour), joined the choir-invisible, bereft of life, expired?

A ball-peen hammer is good fro crushing toes …

Danae’s asking for a Groundhog Day Loop.

Is she going to use the Hammer on Jeffrey or the time machine?

In H. Allen Smith’s THE RETURN OF THE VIRGINIAN, the narrator, a newspaper editor, has had a falling-out with his ex-wife and she bursts into his office (in his absence) and destroys his Royal typewriter with a hammer. The witness, a janitor named Gene Shallow, reported that “It was a ball peen. She kept turnin’ it around an’ usin’ both ends…” On a related note, I went into my little dog’s (Norwegian Elkhound) Home Depot to buy a four-pound blacksmith’s hammer. The checker asked me what I planned to use it for. “Fixing my laptop. I keep getting error messages.”