Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 10, 2009

Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Hikers …

Welcome to Oz.

I want a GPS that leads to Oz! (and sorry Aussies, I mean yellow brick road and emerald city Oz ;) )

We’re not in Kansas anymore.

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I don’t see the lion. He must still be with the witch and the wardrobe.

I think Danae should wear her hair like Dorothy..

Cobra, if you got a GPS that led you here you’d think you were in Oz!

Dead of Winter Down Under, and 19C … how’s that?

@Edcole: I think the witch is the wife of the hiker :D

They shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque.

That must be a truly magical GPS, for the land of Oz is surrounded by an impassable desert.

I’m wondering if the lion is hiding in the woods, waiting for the hikers to turn back. Mmmmm… DINNER!

(Nah… Probably not. He’s too much of a coward to attack.)

They are off to see the wizard.

They can just click their heels together three times an be home.

GPS? Follow the yellowbrick road!

Sapphire slippers?

keenan - too bleeep hot. It’s currently 22C but feels like 33C in Toronto Canada …

I would like that GPS, but only if it can lead to a company that’s hiring Security Guards LOL

Join the U. S. National Guard. They’re looking for “Internment Specialists”.

Perhaps those hikers should be oz-tracized

Oh, that’s just a lot of yellow brick load.

Garrulous, good catch, however in the book they weren’t ruby either.

Cue the flying monkeys.

19, 22, 33 C: 66, 72, 91 F, and just follow the road, remember the story has a happy ending, and at least they didn’t wind up in Iraq, or is it Iran?, and who blindly follows a GPS? going to Capri or Capir or…..?

Cheapo GPS motto….”One bad turn deserves another.”

Hey! At least his GPS gets them to someplace interesting! My E-bay GPS goes blank every once in a while and gives me a line across the screen! Then I have to pop out the batteries and re-boot!

And don’t bug me about the warranty. I’m sure it’s voided if it fell off the back of a truck.

Garrulous said, about 6 hours ago

Sapphire slippers?

That little girl named Dorothy should wear red ruby slippers.

Yeah, but don’t you need the Ruby slippers before you can click your heals 3 times (and say “There’s no place like home”).

@Joe Allen…you’re thinking of the 1939 movie..which took a lot of liberties with the original story.

For starters the ruby slippers were originally silver. (One can only assume they were changed to something that would show up in color.)

Many don’t realize there were a number of “OZ” books - I read them all as a kid (thank God for public libraries, and Andrew Carnegie). Ozma, Tik Tok, Tip, Mombi,Scraps - all were important in other Oz books, but, of course, what people remember is Judy Garland and the Wizard of Oz. In “The Emerald City of Oz”, Dorothy, Uncle Henry and Aunt Em come to live in Oz permanently. Yes, I’m digressing. I’ll stop.

The whole OZ story was just a bad (Good) acid trip by the author.

It is true that the movie’s ending was talked about a lot. In the original books by L Frank Baum, Oz was definitely supposed to be a real place. Dorothy even takes her aunt there in one of his sequels.

Aaaaand Stephen King following that group with an ax…You have just crossed over from the land of Oz to the land of Oz The Gweat and Twwible,,,,from Pet Sematary

I agree with Harlan Ellison. Dorothy was an idiot for wanting to go back to Kansas.

That scarecrow looks an awful lot like Batman’s nemesis.

Scarecrow?

I thought it was Michael Jackson.