Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 15, 2022

If he majored in literature, she must be the breadwinner in the house, otherwise there is no way they could afford such a big house.

I wonder what Wiley majored in?? ;-)

What’s worse than raining cats & dogs?

Hailing taxicabs!

It’s raining cliches.

Him: It’s going to be a bloody mess out there.

Her: Dear, again…

When it’s raining dogs, you can always tell by the poodles on the road.

He can, but can any cartoonist?

Apparently Wiley can’t.

Precipitbull?

If he majored in literature, why wouldn’t he be literal?

Could be hailing taxis.

I miss those fresh, original clichés you used to use.

The dogs at least seem to be enjoying it

Good time to duck.

Okay – maybe it’s not literally raining cats and dogs, but the sky, from this window at least, is mostly furry.

I’d always understood that this expression was an idiom…

There’re many etymological suggestions, for this idiom. My personal favourite involves animals dying in the thatch-work, getting knocked down by the heavy rain-fall, and the open sewer. Does anyone have any others?

Tell her to step outside and be careful not to step on a poodle.

And, “Time flies like an arrow. (But fruit flies like a banana)”

If his name were Les Nesman, those would be turkeys.

Odd taste in murals

Except in the house of certain pet owners where it is reigning cats and dogs.

One rainy day, my wife told my 5 year old grandson to look for the cats & dogs. He replied, “Grandma, that’s just an idiom!”

My Davis weather station has a crawl that activates when rain gets heavy. Yep, it says “It’s raining cats and dogs”.

When it’s raining just cats is it called „downpurr“?

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”, Dear. Come here.

Go splash in the poodles.

Somebody watched that new commercial.

So it is literally raining cats and dogs? How do they bear it?

Well how does he know it’s raining cats & dogs? Did he step in a poodle? ;)

But it IS raining cats and dogs!!!

Does it snow polar bears?

I might call myself a literature major, given the number of novels I have read in 20+ retirement years. Lots of good ones, too many dogs. Ironically, it’s the same with movies since the ’70’s, which became too expensive and dangerous to hearing in the ’90’s.

One possible source of the term is the Greek cata doxa which sounds like “cats and dogs” but really just means “contrary to all belief”.

The Greek phrase used in relation to the weather was found in the works of Lucian of Samosata, a 2nd century satirist (a sort of Woody Allen of his time).

If he was a literature major, he should avoid cliches like the plague.

It could be worse. It could be raining sharks. A Sharknado, if you will.

It took me a second or two to figure out what was going on outside his window. At first glance, I thought the feline-canine weather phenomenon was an unusual piece of mural art.

“It isn’t raining rain, you know. It’s raining violets.”

The cats at least will land on all four feet.

Yeah, well, it’s been raining cats and dogs in this country for a while now. So there!!

My hunch was that “cats and dogs” was an expression meaning “with violence,” derived from the natural antipathy between the species that turns many an encounter into a donnybrook. Similar to “going at it hammer and tongs.”

pussycats and puppy dogs! yeah!

It looks like they’re forming a parachuting circle.

Wiley’s done this one before. np941115. Slightly different drawing and text.