Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 21, 2023

I’m pretty sure caveman went outside the cave anyway

He’s invented the women’s outhouse to give women a place to stand in line. (Men’s outhouses had a sun symbol.)

Have we lost a certain amount of freedom by having to go someplace to go to the bathroom?

Can you make one for boys, as well?

Did the guy who built the privy did the sh#t pit, too?

Yea? And who’s gonna clean it out? And you’d better move it further way, too.

Anyone notice the Wiley Bear lurking around the corner?

I like the bear back there. But ya’ know what HE’S doing in the woods.

It’s as good a starting point as any.

Now they need to invent toilet paper.

So, he’s the one responsible for civilization!?? Boooo, hissss!

why is the Bear grinning?

Years ago, I remember a friend of mines old Grandpa said “The trouble these days is people used to go OUT to cr@p and come IN to eat. Now they go OUT to eat and come IN to cr@p. No wonder things is all messed up now!” He was quite the character but he made sense in a lot of ways!

And soon it was the only place anyone could read a newspaper in peace…when newspapers were invented 10,000 years later.

One of the things I tell students on the first day of a civilization course is that there is no one accepted definition of civilization. There are three approaches: it is a single discovery which dramatically changes how humans live (what discovery?), it is the gradual accumulation of several inventions/discoveries (and they are?), or it is a bogus concept to justify why it’s okay for us to enslave you and steal your resources (because we’re civilized and you’re not). Some textbooks explain what they mean by civilization. Some just assume it means literacy and don’t provide details.

I’d sometimes ask students to define civilization and defend/explain their definition. They could use any of the three approaches. A definition is only meaningful if it tells us something. “If you can talk you’re civilized” means every human has been civilized for 40,000 years and means nothing. “When everyone loves each other and treats others with respect” means no one is civilized. One defined civilization as starting with flush toilets. Brilliant essay, well defended, got 100% for showing understanding of the issues.

Wiley Bear calls it a larder.

The next thing you know there will be a traffic jam.

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“Anthropologist Margaret Mead said the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture is a femur that had been broken and then healed. She theorized that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die because you are unable to run from danger, hunt, and survive. But a healed thigh bone is a sign that someone has taken time to care for the injured.” ( statement might or might not be accurate quote from M Mead).

Why is that bear so gosh-darn happy?

Apparently, the Wiley bear doesn’t — in the woods anymore, he uses the caveman’s outhouse.

Ooooh what a relief it is!

civilization was not real till toilet paper came along.

Invent the Bidet then you’ve earned a pat on the back!

Just realized what outhouses do to the local water table.

Dot lose yourself

The source of many a great idea and invention. Also a good place for bears to pick up fresh meat.

And then someone invented the “two holer” and social awareness became an issue.

I suppose true freedom and happiness includes not have to watch where you walk, …in the livingroom.

The new meeting room for house republicans

Think outside the box. P00p outside the cave.

One small step for man…

I think these guys were probably already at least partly civilized, because shoemaking is a kind of specialized talent that not just anybody can perform, so they were already on their way to division of labor.

i used one of those every summer when i was growing up, and a pump for drinking water…sigh…those were the days

so does a bear use it? no trees

Invention of the chimney was a large factor in advancement of civilization. You could then safely bring fire indoors to heat and cook.

And the comic strip world would later work itself into a tizzy when a caveman uses the facility and says “Is it just me or does it stink in here?”

I just want to know who takes care of it when the "SH!TTER’S FULL?

You forgot to invent beer and sports.

I’ll bet the idiot didn’t include a hole with that outhouse.

Taxidea taxus!

At Boy Scout summer camp, one kid peed out of the back of the tent. It got pretty ripe after a week.

That’s where I learned to read a box score, before using it for another purpose!

First they want to tell you where to poop …

Useless information. Toilet comes from the French word for the personal cloth they used instead of paper and some Islanders used clam shells. Ain’t google wonderful.

As the new boy, my first assignment at the field camp was to create the toilet: Dig the pit, cut the posts and drive them into the ground, find some driftwood for splinter-free seating, and make a plastic tee-pee to keep most of the bugs off.

Everybody loves a good poop joke.

From indoors to outdoors and then back to indoors. All progress runs in circles.

I prefer it to lack of sanitation, re civil war era.

Something on this page shut my computer down the first 2 times I opened it.

Freedom from Cholera

I call it rural tennessee