Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 07, 2025

They are lucky that there is no toll booth.

If they’re stuck on that island long enough, she’s gonna look like lunch.

Oh cay.

I don’t get it atoll.

(Okay, someone had to type it.)

And the place is named Gettingawayfrom Atoll.

This whole thread is taking atoll on my patience..

Good thing you were able to clear that up…

All atolls are islands, but most islands (even those of the same area size) are not atolls.

Maybe if the palm tree is omitted?

… and therein lies atoll …

When she leaves work at 5 pm, follow her.

A troll is an ugly creature from Nordic Folklore. This one was dyslexic and thought of himself as a toll…

Give it a little time, guys. By the shape of the land, it is obvious that it will return from whence it came.

Should have asked her how she got there.

Looks like they’re within swimming distance of the land in the background.

Question for commenters who live near any coast: Are there any rideshare companies who have boats that take people to/from nearby islands? Uber boats? Seems like a workable idea if done right.

en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Rectification_of_names

I’m lost too ?

Ask the right question, for the right outcome.

Did he ask when the next ferry arrives?

From Merriam-Webster:

Atoll: a coral island consisting of a reef surrounding a lagoon

Maybe its a metaphor.

She is too.

um . . . er . . . uh . . . what?!?

Send out Cap’n Eddie for a pickup—of course that’s liable to make things worse…..

Guys! When she gets off work, follow her home!

Just go home with the lady when she closes the booth…

They are on Bikini Atoll. Bravo!

Good thing it came with that handy information booth, though.

Well, she IS informative. Maybe she has some information they could really use.

May be it is the no bikini atoll.

Wake Island is an atoll. And there is an airfield on it Wake Island is shaped like the one in the cartoon. The chartered plane I was on going to Vietnam did stop at Wake Island. We never got off the plane. This was in February 1967.

Atolls tend to be groups of islands.

There must be a supply ship for her.

Info from Pi.ai:

Based on my research, it appears that some islands in Bikini Atoll still exist after the H-bomb tests, but not all of them. Here’s what I found:

The Bikini Atoll originally consisted of 23 islands, but three of them (Bokonijien, Aerokojlol, and part of Namu) were completely destroyed during the nuclear tests.

The majority of the residents of Bikini Atoll were relocated to Rongerik Atoll and later to Kili Island after the nuclear tests.Some islands in the Bikini Atoll remain uninhabited to this day due to the lingering effects of the nuclear tests, including contaminated groundwater and radioactive coconuts.

So, while there are still some islands left in Bikini Atoll, the nuclear tests had a devastating impact on the environment and the people who once called these islands home.

the exposed rim of an underwater volcano’s caldera. What a fun place to live ;-)

Well, logic never rules, in real life or the comics. It’s the funny papers after all, at least it should be. ;-)

That’s a Starbucks, and this is Starbuck Island. (there really is one in the Pacific)

Is it a no bikini atoll?

I would have asked when the next boat was coming.

Me,I want to know “How’s t he fishing?”

Not if you’re Marlon Brando and buy it for your descendants who make a fortune off tourism

Atoll is what you pay to drive on aturnpike.

There’s a bigger island right behind you, so start swimming. You can get there before the sharks arrive.

Just an FYI, no doubt of small interest: The \o\ in the word “toll” rhymes with the \o\ in tole, roll, poll, etc. “Toll” didn’t start out sounding the same as “tall.” It’s true that I did know a seven-year-old child several decades ago who believed very firmly that “toll” sounded just like “tall”, but he had made that decision on his own when he read The Phantom Tollbooth" and he stuck to it.

So far, the tall pronunciation is unsupported in dictionaries. But be of good cheeer! I’m sure it soon will be, because dictionaries tend to be descriptive, not prescriptive. Thus doth the language roll [!] right along. ;-)

Don’t worry. The Wiley Bear Rescue Crew will be by soon. After lunch if you’re lucky.

They’re okay. It’s no trouble atoll.