Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 31, 2025

Carl pushes the Garage button 12 times.

Quite the contrary, something’s very much over for Carl!

Take the stairs, Carl.

Oh his day AT THE OFFICE is over…

Until the day I DIE , I will never like these “hereafter” jokes…..

And the elevator down the hall has a Wiley bear.

I guess staying at the office longer is purgatory

This could be a funny prank to play on a CEO but then it might give them a heart attack or a reality check.

Yeah – not for a LONG, LONG time.

Georges Guétary’s filmed version is probably the most famous, because it was in “An American In Paris”; but it was recorded several times immediately after it appeared in George White’s 1922 “Scandals”. The earliest major artist recording appears to be the incomparable Sarah Vaughn (1958), and though Pat Boone recorded it that same year his version can’t compare to Vaughn’s recording of George Gershwin songs (Ira wrote the lyrics). Also, though often shortened to “Stairway to Paradise”, the original title WAS “I’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise.” At any rate, Carl DEFINITELY should take the stairs, if he wants to make it out of the building alive.

Too bad he can’t choose to Go Up the Down Escalator.

He can’t win.

The ground floor (First floor if you’re American) is on fire.

Why is heaven always depicted as being “up” ? There is no “up”, only “out”.

I’ll take door number three Monty, no matter where its going…

THE HORN BLOWS AT MIDNIGHT, a very underrated Jack Benny film,features an elevator that goes to the top floor and keeps on going to Heaven.

Everyone who bends the knee to the traitor Trump will be taking the elevator on the right.

Can’t we all just get along? Na, everyone wants their pizza cut differently.

If angels were real, this one would invite the sad sack in and redeem him on the way up. Since they’re not, it matters little which one he takes. The result will be the same, just delayed a little.

No thanks to either option. I’m going to Valhalla when I die. They know how to party.

You have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever going up.

If he’s leaving for the day, he wouldn’t want to go up now would he? In heaven there is no beer.

Karl is doomed to spend eternity in meetings.

Hmmm… decisions, decisions. Going up offers pleasant weather and good neighbors while going down has better food and plenty of legal help.

I’d avoid elevators entirely today, Carl.

I just remembered, I left something important back in my office. You go ahead, I’ll take the next one.

I was recently in a courthouse elevator with the door shut but the buttons not responding. Then the back door opened and in walked a sheriff with a handcuffed arrestee. The sheriff told me I had to leave, but only she could open the door.

Carl must be a Personal Injury Attorney!

Work or Hell. I wonder if he’ll notice the difference?

Me @ this elevator: well,I’ll prolly meet a lot of my friends there,and,just maybe,a family member or two……

One of my favorite books, is “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl. It’s a short book and an easy read. In the book, Frankl tells of his experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp and how he managed to overcome the despair.

I don’t know how bad your day at the office has been, but it’s nothing like a day at Auschwitz.

I just hope that there are enough people willing to keep history alive so people remember that there was an Auschwitz after the new regime purges it from the history books.

Take the elevator down. Maybe there will be a Music/Dance Experience at work today.

The office is hell

20 years at the job, then he dies at his desk and no one notices. That would be sad.

Hmm…aside from the way it played out, I’m reminded of Ronnie James Dio’s video for The Last in Line. Still a great video

Hate to be a nitpicker {no i don’t} – how does the door on the “down” elevator open?

The door is wider than the space it has to slide into.

The door on the right leads to Purgatory!

Prince sang: ♪ And if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy – punch a higher floor ♪

Those aren’t elevators, they’re Wonkavators.

There are bad days, and then there’s THIS.

Interesting how people constantly think they are stuck in a binary choice isn’t it ?

Hahahahahaha!!!!!

Well doesn’t that just take the cake……

Horace Horse knows elevators.

Time to play the Elevator Game, but beware…

Hellevator?

Lunch break Carl. Time to go take a lunch break and come back later…

Up is where I want to go, too.

When the elevator operator is singing “Highway To Hell”, wait for the next car.

Stairs would only go down, forever, a loose step every so often, splinters on the handrail, 85 degrees, 90 percent humidity and elevator music from scratchy speakers. They are cooking cabbage and old socks in the basement also, which vents in the stairwell. Enjoy.

MAGA’its and republicans in general should start making their plans because when their day ends, they will discover that they go to the same place for lying that you go to for stealing. And pleading ’’ignorance’’ does not help their case.