Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 11, 2024

So it wasn’t the Stoned Age?

Maybe also because, as shown in the Far Side awhile ago, the field experiments kept killing test subjects.

Don’t forget having people dance to a kitschy tune.

Does this mean that primitive tribes have really advanced marketing?

S-o-o-o-o-o Market testing comes before road testing?

H-m-m-m-m, sounds familiar.

Brings back the old advertising saw from early days, i.e., sell the sizzle, not the steak.

Next; How can we make it a subscription service?

They were looking to market to that demographic. Given life expectancy, that’s the middle aged market. Should be going for the 12-18 range

Oh, heavens. Just roll with it.

The most important invention was the axel. It’s what made the wheel worth something.

Maybe it’s not what you think.

A man from Mars landed on Second Avenue and looked into a store window, fascinated.

Finally, he entered the shop and asked the owner:

“What are those little wheels in the window?”

“Wheels? What wheels?”

The Martian pointed.

“Those aren’t wheels.” The owner smiled.

“They’re called bagels . . . we eat them . . . Here, try one.”

The Martian bit into the bagel and smacked his lips,

“Man, these would go great with lox and a schmear.”

- Leo Rosten The New Joys Of Yiddish

In the Paleolithic era approximately 75% of deaths were caused by infection, including diarrheal diseases that resulted in dehydration and starvation. Life expectancy was approximately 33 years of age. This explains why the marketing department has always been traditionally useless.

That demographic drastically reduced the size of the wheel and placed them on skateboards!

That they were stoned didn’t help either…

There’s always an Over-Thinker, ahead of his Time: “It’s called ‘a letter’. It will be used to describe our speech, and used in ‘writing’. All we need to do is come up with other appropriate letter shapes. Just because we’re Stone Age folks, we’re not necessarily stupid.”

It takes tech to make newer tech. And when the only tools you have are rocks progress comes slowly.

The Flintstones made it work!

Appeal to the 18 – 34 demographic – tell them their parents are trying to get it banned.

I’m surprised nobody mentioned Hitchhiker’s Guide, where the Fire Development Sub-Committee holds off on inventing fire because they aren’t sure how to market it, and won’t invent the wheel till they figure out what color it should be.

Flame decals or racing stripes might work best for that demographic.

And you can forget about quality control

If you think about it, we’re still there, given our potential leadership.

The real reason is that our methods of estimating the age of things without historical records don’t work very well without historical records to calibrate them.

We don’t have any roads yet, and the wheel needs roads, so we will stop working on the wheel until other people build all of the roads.

Advertising insurance (for wheel accidents) is the 2nd step.

Um most humans didnt live past 20 back then so….

They thought they’d invented Life Savers until t hey tried sucking on the stone…..

Don’t forget to come up with the idea of the extended warranty, lots of fools fall for it. Just give your stone mail and you will be forever in their warranty program.

For those unfamiliar with very early human history, 18 years was pretty good run.

What makes you think the Stone age ever ended, most media and government is still running on mid to late twentieth century ideas, stupid continues to rule, regardless of party ! ;-)

Okay. Stone Age seniors campaign.

Like the marketing people from the Golga Frinchum B Ark discussing fire.

Make it able to take selfies and it will sell itself.

Eventually they gave up and sold the patent rights to Johnny Hart for an undisclosed number of clams.

Does anyone else have an annoying AT&T ad popping up over the middle of the comic you are trying to read?

Sounds like a great idea – don’t want to have a good idea go to waste.

kamala is a cartoon

I only saw the link for cartoonists for commies.