Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 12, 2009

Of course, Big Foot shows up. Doesn’t he always.

I prefer the Loch Ness Monster. Hairy beasts are a dime a dozen. Long-necked aquatic lizards are where its at.

But of course, Mars will be (relatively) close in August. That wasn’t the hoax part.

Oh, well.

Cute one, Wiley - score one for you!

NO! Mar will NOT be close in August. The next opposition will be in January, 2010.

geez Danae doesn’t know how to find snopes.com?

THAT’S WHAT I SAID!!

NEVER TRUST WIKIPEDIA (thts wat my teachers alway said)…

Well jelzap, I’ve made quite a few corrections to wiki articles–so I’m chiming that your teachers’ statements are on the nail!

ARF2, where did you get your information - the internet

Good One, Wiley. That email about Mars comes around every year, now, since it actually happened in 2003. People come up to me and tell me about it. They are stunned when I break the sad news to them that they missed it by several years.

Even if Danae knows how to find snopes.com, that doesn’t necessarily mean she’s incapable of being fooled by that site:

http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp

ROFTL

What else will they give us? More wisdom from Washington D.C.?

It’s all fun & games until Bigfoot shows up…

Simple: trust nothing from the Internet that you wouldn’t trust from the mouth of a total stranger.

this is what I learned on the internet: the ‘69 moon landings were faked

we have been to the moon lots of times since and have bases there

the earth is actually hollow and there are beings living in there

we already know about mars and its past civilizations

the 911 events were all self inflicted by robot planes after the real planes landed somewhere and everybody was “liquidated” sure, I believe everything on the internet, it wouldnt be there if it wasnt true!

Wonder if Einstein had the comics in mind when he said ”Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

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Love it when Danae spits bones.

It just goes to show you you can’t believe every thing you hear or read.

Hookoa,

the email about Mars is a complete hoax. Yes, the red planet was very close “visually” and relative to the earth a couple years ago, but it will NEVER be so close that it’s appears as big as the moon. We’d be in deep doo doo if that ever happened.

Nothing should be referenced if it isn’t a peer reviewed article in a reputable journal about the subject. Even newspapers are suspect.. Now, that being said, (sorry Lamont! ) something like wikipedia can be trusted to tell you the basics about a subject, saymoons, so it can give you quick knowledge of the subject. Just don’t reference it and watch out for incorrect details. I would suggest World Book as a rule, but they makes mistakes, too. BTW if the moon actually looked as large as the moon, I wouldn’t sweat the whole global warning scenario…

Nelly- You say that now, but wait 3 1/2 BILLION years! Any of the four interior planets could collide due to orbital chaos. The odds are 2500 to 1. If it happens we can blame that little stinker Mercury. Mercury could go into resonance with Jupiter and the solar pinball game would begin. Then again, it might not and 1.5 billion years after that the sun swells into a red giant and swallows up all four planets anyway.

Wait, wait, wait. If the martians gave us the internet, does that mean Al Gore talks to martians, or is Al Gore a martian? Might explain some things…

Well, I heard on the Internet that Snopes is just a couple of people who appointed themselves as experts and that you can’t trust what they say is true any more than you can anything else on the Internet, like Wikipedia. (Ow, my head hurts.)

, If everything on the INTERNET is “suspect”; If OFFICIAL Scientific Pronouncements are “unsound”, If the LATE SHOW Prologue is “MisInformation”……….then all Opposites are Correctosites.

The world is SPINNING, I can’t breathe, the Horizonial and Vertical are all swiggling…………Civilization as we have known it,; is a sick Wiley Miller joke.

“Mother……..where is the ALKA SELTZER ??????????”

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the internet is stupid in my opinion cuz i could make a site that says the sky is green and someone out there would believe me.

And you can’t trust the news either. Or politicians. Or lawyers. Or economists, or the supreme court, or doctors or the FDA. Maybe Chris Carter was on to something with the “Trust No One” theme.

I don’t trust what I just typed. Or this either.

…so then they live in the Great Northwest???

No, not necessarily , Zoned, We have we have big foots here in Michigan too. We even have a short hunting season to cull the herd….

…how much does it cost for a tag?

What’s so great about the Northwest?

pookid54 said, Al Gore is a planet

Not quite. A star in the constellation Perseus. Whoops, that’s Algor!

And, to prove other comments about the Internet, there really is a site that says that. But it’s Algol, not Algor. BTW, Wikipedia got that one right.

I learned back in the ’80s that anything on the Internet is just about as reliable as lunch table conversation – and has to be rated just as carefully against who said it and who agreed. And peer-reviewed journals are only better in that those who agreed have some credentials, not because they are infallible. (Hey, I know. I have refereed journal papers.)

Does this mean Al Gore is a Martian?