Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 28, 2009

Sadly, I’ve had to say that to someone before.

Someone should tell that to President Obama… and someone SHOULD have said that to President Bush.

Hey, is he wearing Eno’s boxers? I need Obvious man. I am extremely inept in the fixit department.

A man admitting he was wrong? I’m fainting here.

Here, here, carmy - very scary.

the guy must be a politician.

either politician or ‘pundit’

Some should’ve tell that to Obama, President George W. Bush, and his dad, George H. W. Bush!

Just hold the bulb still and rotate the lamp. That way you won’t need to violate any core principles or risk rationality.

Josh1360 said

Wait a minute…? Wouldn’t that make them ‘flip-floppers’?

josh1360 we heard you the first time u don’t have to scream at us ok.

Sounds like a reflection of big government - which is only getting bigger folks.

Use his stupid brain to screw that bulb in that lamp another direction!

Lightbulbs are not as simple as they used to be. Neither are watches, cars, phones, butter, beer and milk for that matter.

~Our world has been made ready for “Obviousman”!

with due thanks to “Bob and Tom”

… and the other direction …?

To the RIGHT, of course!

Oh, please, Carmy! I thought I was wrong once! Turns out I was mistaken about it!

So happy to see Obviousman again. I missed him.

Wiley

Bob and Tom are host of the sydicated “Bob and Tom Show” which airs on over 100 radio stations and on WGN TV. They have been broadcasting from WFBQ Indianapolis, Q-95 since 1983 and have been syndicated since the late ‘90’s. In 1997 they premiered “The Mr. Obvious Show” featuring sports guy Chick McGee as Mr. O and producer Dean Metcalf as the bewildered caller. Mr. O’s most famous bit was entitled “The Critter” and can be heard on “The Mr. Obvious Show” CD, a collection of 29 bits from 1997 thru 2005, available at www.bobandtom.com

nighthawks…. maybe now Wiley will make the connection!!!!

I like this, and I liked Mr. Obvious too.

Those boxers make me think of cheese…

i thought i was wrong once. but i was mistaken.

Wiley, you forgot to draw a lit light bulb in a thought balloon over that dimwits head when he final saw the light.

Obviousman was always one of my favorites in this strip. He’s been absent for far too long, Wiley. Any chance of his making a comeback for a while? :)

Yay Obvious Man! You’re my hero!

dhubb said, Sadly, I’ve had to say that to someone before.

I’m curious, though I think I’m going to regret asking, you hae to tell someone to look at a problem a different way or you literally had to tell them to turn the light bulb the other way to screw it in?

Get green Obviousman. Tell the guy to get an energy efficient bulb. Come to think of it, if you tell the fruitcake that the energy efficient bulb is the only one that will screw in, you he might always buy them in the future.

The things one has to go through to get folks to do the right thing.

In Australia (where I’m from), the obvious answer would be, “It’s a bayonet fitting.”

But CFL bulbs 1) contain mercury and need special disposal when they burn out 2) DON’T last as long as the label says unless they are run under ideal conditions (which don’t exist ‘in the wild’) and 3) are a poor second choice to LED lights which aren’t available commercially yet, but which use even LESS energy and have longer lives (for real) ….

“Green” can be relative! :)

Ahhh, a politicians thinking right to the core!

“Rationality isn’t known to be habit forming” ?? Should pin that up at work.

CFLs only contain 5mg of mercury, barely enough to worry about, and then only if you drop one and break it. Just sweep it up into a paper bag, and take it to the next e-waste disposal event with your old alkaline batteries etc..

LED lamps are available, they’re just still pretty expensive, but they last some 50,000 to 100,000 hours. I get the 1156 amber ‘parking-light’ version at (www.superbrightleds.com), and put them in an old Tensor lamp. Great ‘bug-light’ for camping.

pbarnrob,

I don’t doubt your sincerity about CFL’s. I still cringe when I read a sentence that contains the words “…mercury, barely enough to worry about…”

You thought collage was expensive? Try ignorance!!!

LED is going to replace CFL sooner or later. LED High Bay http://www.okledlighting.com