Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 09, 2009

Maybe it’s the mouse that’s causing my computer doesn’t work.

Make a school report of this, too:)

Anyone remember drooling over Annette Funicello on the Mouseketeers?

Annette who? You mean pre-lunacy Britney Spears, right?

rayannina - you are clearly much younger than I am.

That was just a bit before my time, but I do remember seeing film clips of Annette back then.

Who knew mice liked watching the Disney channel.

MurphyHerself Sure, and it will be taken just as seriously as the Mars 3.5 adventure.

I guess if you are old enough to remember, you are probably too old to remember anything :-)

Annette was cute but Darlene was the one to drool over ^_^

Darla Hood was my first heart throb , Darlene then Annette after that . Those where the days of my youth .

I knew them both… Annette and Brittiney. Only Disney (when he was alive) did allow her to be in all those campy beach movies, but forbid her to show her navel. With Brittiney Spears however, Disney (the company) could care less about what she did, especially that kiss she did with Madonna.

I wonder if that TV is a iPhone with a TV viewer app. Don’t know where else they’d find a screen that small!

(Hey Lucy, you’d better go get the magnifying glass…)

Sissy and Bobby on th the Lawernce Welk Show.

Whatever! Anyways, at the end of the day, it is what it is, y’know?

I remember Annette … boy, she had a great set of ears.

I still buy Skippy peanut butter!

Rodents chewing through cables. After a 40-year career in telecom, I have two funny stories about that. One is almost – ALMOST – as funny as Wiley’s. But NOTHING is really as funny as Wiley’s.

The really funny one involved repeated failures (every 2-3 weeks) of a lab test model due to mice chewing through the wires. These failures were alternated with cable repairs AND visits by the exterminator – obviously ineffective. In the meantime… There was a stray cat that hung out in the parking lot begging for scraps. As winter approached, the cat looked more and more straggly. Eventually one of our techs took pity, smuggled it into the building and fed it. Pets were not allowed in the building, so we hid it in the lab (where the test model was), because that room stayed locked and even building security didn’t go in there. Once we had the lab cat, no more test model failures. I wonder why.

what are Jonas and Ellie doin’ in New York/New Jersey? They are supposed to be on the ship w/ Louie and Nate!!!

Great strip Wiley. I love panel three with the look of disbelief and amazement on Danae’s face.

I watched the Annette - Frankie movies for the other girls that actually wore bikinis.

Maybe there’s a union?

I remember when Annette was given a part in Zorro as a birthday gift from Walt Disney. It was a two-part story arc where she was a young lady who had been raised in boarding schools in Spain and came to California to find her father. He turned out to be a peasant who had managed to send all of his money to Spain for her, but who was penniless and, in his own eyes, a disgrace to her. But then, of course, this was a Disney production and everything ended happily. I used to swoon and sigh over Guy Williams as Zorro. So dashing and handsome…..

Ronshua, oh, yes, I remember Darla. First love of many a baby boomer. And yes, Mouseketeer Annette had really nice (and large!) um, ears…

in Monday’s last panel, Dad should have got the last word with “sigh, whatever”, then you’d have “whatever” in every panel. and how did you know that “whatever” is currently the most annoying word when it was just announced this week? Wiley is clearvoyant!

Do you guys mean Darla from The Little Rascals? I watched Mickey Mouse Club for the Hardy Boys adventures.

Those mice look like the ones from the cartoon where they were always so polite “after you, Clive?”….can’t remember their names I’m afraid. I expect Danae to figure out a way to share with the little blighters.

JanCinVV - I couldn’t agree more. At the same time we had Edd Byrnes as Kookie. Lend me your comb, anytime.

I’m sure the nice mice would be happy to let you watch TV with them. Just bring the Cheez-Its and try make yourselves comfortable.

@dtut, I had a similar experience, only with cockroaches in a place I was staying in DC. The kitchen was lousy with cockroaches, and no exterminator could get rid of them. They got a feisty kitten, and in a week the kitchen was roach free.

Of course, if the Health Department knew about the cat in the kitchen, they’d have had kittens! But–I’d still rather wash down the counters in the morning than put up with the roaches.

O.K. mice, let’s cut out the clowning !!

They are not mice, they are pan-dimensional beings.

Whatever.

( Joe Allen Doty said, 7 minutes ago

Satellite TV service and cable TV service are two different kinds of TV services……. )

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grazer said, 2 minutes ago

Whatever

Beautiful interaction I love reading these comments just for ones likes these.

i watched Mickey Mouse Club for Spin and Marty…

Some times you find yourself wondering, don’t ya!

cleo: Yeah, like “How To Stuff A Wild Bikini”, lol. We really, actually, seriously went to see those movies, didn’t we?

Disney was a bit of a closet dirty old man, and a savvy marketer. He once let slip in an interview that the original MMC show included a couple of well-endowed young ladies, so the Dads that got home from work early wouldn’t make the kids change the channel.

farfle 1954 - I loved Spin & Marty and had forgotten them until you brought them up. Thank you for the memory.

Squirrels have also been known to do a number on the pole cable (of a client; we have fiber-to-the-curb, not the right flavor).

Left him just enough to get sorta connected, but not enough to do anything useful, until a savvy senior cable tech figured it out. Now he has a watch out for those rascals.

Wasn’t allowed to watch unless my homework was finished. Really made me fast in arithmatic.

And I started playing little league because of Mookie.

@pbarnrob “Squirrels have also been known to do a number on the pole cable”

Actually, that was the subject of my other story. Seriously.

DaveT

Oh no, first Overboard, now Non Sequitur! I hates mices to pieces!