Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 16, 2023

Just walk up street, they’ll be another tree

One day, this scene will be so common, but still cute.

How Mr Wonderfull made his 1st $100

Looks like the kid might make a buck (or two) but then he’d have to re-fill the tree. “They took all the trees, and put ’em in a tree museum; and charged the people a dollar and a half just to see ’em”

Hate to disappoint you, kid, but I’m colorblind.

“They took all the trees, put ’em in a tree museum…”

Wait until you get a bill for the oxygen you consumed that month.

Yesterday a cable station ran a Little Rascals marathon. Whether drumming up business for selling lemonade, providing taxi service, raising money for a mom’s birthday present, even milking a cow, they were quite ingenious.

In real life, another “entrepreneur” would soon arrive and relieve him of all his money.

saw a similar comic in your calendar on my desk this past week, but the kid had a window shade in front of the tree instead of circular vertical blinds. The guys looking at the scene said they found their next Director of Marketing. He was even charging a dollar too!

Last tree in the city. Paved paradise and put up a parking lot… Although whether the city could be called paradise is up for debate.

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign….

As Joni Mitchell sang in the Big Yellow Taxi, “They paved paradise, put up a parking lotThey took all the trees put ‘em in a tree museumAnd they charged the people a dollar an’ a half just to see ’em”.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot, took all the trees and put them in a tree museum and charged all the people a dollar and a half to see ’em.

I suppose the best way to make a solid income is not to “give the people what they want” but rather to keep people from getting what they want until they pay you. Sort of like a pay toilet.

Where’d the kid hide his ladder? And somebody will be mad when they find the shower rod and curtain have been otherwise applied.

If you really want to charge a lot of rent, build a Dyson Sphere around the Sun. You can charge for both sunlight and electricity generated. Don’t pay your bill? No sun for you.

These days, to attract investors, you have to have a subscription model. Gotta get that recurring revenue…without really earning it.

Yikes! And I hear he’s opened another branch office

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

“They took all the trees and put ’em in a Tree Museum. Then they charge $10 just to see ’em.” Adjusted for inflation.

You think this is just a joke? Read about the early days of Niagara Falls as a tourist attraction. All the good vantage points were surrounded by high fencing that you had to pay to go thru.

“There behind a glass stands a real blade of grass

Be careful as you pass, move along, move along"

I read of one Taylor Swift fan who collects the confetti at each Eras event, sells it in piñatas in the likeness of people’s exes, then uses to the profits to go another Swift show to collect more confetti. Not much profit, but she’s seen ten shows.

The lesson here is to read all the comments before posting something that ten other people have already said. Anybody else want to quote Joni Mitchell?

Why hasn’t anybody mentioned the Joni Mitchell song?

Why isn’t the boy making them sit through commercials before seeing the tree?

Soon there will be a Spirit of Halloween store in it’s place.

In N.Y. that kid would be doing the 3 card Monte…

The wind machine is an extra 50c. Astro turf is also an extra 50c

That will work best in big gray cities where trees die from lack of love.

A previous gag modified

Calvin had better ideas.

The Vertical Blinds are so much easier for this sort of thing.

With the Horizontal blinds, the leaves get caught in the Slats.