Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 25, 2009

Everyone’s writing, nobody’s reading. And free is free, right? The internet is killing professional organizations. And you can’t give away encyclopedia sets anymore …

[I love these single panel Non Sequiturs. Keep ‘em coming!]

This would be as plentiful as the guys selling newspapers or cleaning the windshields.

I don’t have a blog and I don’t want one…so no I don’t think so.

As Danae found out a Geek plot, to inherit the world.

Funny that it’s not cyber, with an alias PayPal account! We still think in terms of paper dollars, sidewalks and soap boxes …

Give the man $100!!!

I don’t have a blog and I don’t want one

So here you are, posting … for … um, free.

The guy in the strip, is he prostituting his silent dedication to his artistic purity of vision?

—– ”Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.” - Robert Orben

Funny that it’s not cyber, with an alias PayPal account! We still think in terms of paper dollars, sidewalks and soap boxes

I’ll give up my twentieth century when they peel it from my cold dead analog fingers.

I had half my pinky cut off, so I count in base nine-and-a-half.

“I had half my pinky cut off, so I count in base nine-and-a-half.”

So in your own way, you are digital. And “finger on, finger off” is the essence of binary code …

Finger on, oops, finger half off, is definitely analog.

Same as glass half full, glass half empty.

Nice try, no cigar. I was around when they invented the transistor.

Heck, I was around when they invented dirt.

Heck, I helped fill out the patent applications.

“Says here we have to write down what we’re going to use it for”

“Um … … … mud puddles!!”

It was an overnight success. We made millions.

You got a glass?

I’ll throw a prediction out there: Once the internet stops being free and the advertisers and lawyers take it over, people will go back to the old ways of doing things.

Hugh, quick question: do you remember the old ways of doing things? Do any of us? sigh

I wish some people wouldn’t post their thoughts on comic strips (usually not including this one). They’ve obviously never heard that the best ways to kill a joke are to explain it or to tack on your own bad punchline afterward.

Yup … it’s called “rock and stick”

but some of the other punchlines are a hoot! keep typing’

Only the Overboard folks have gone overboard with personal comments not related to the cartoon.

Comix are like any other text: they elicit comment and criticism and co-creativity. That’s how they work; that’s how they connect.

To wish for someone to stymie their response seems to negate the purpose of a comment board. You may not personally enjoy the comments here, or agree with them, but to wish them away seems tantamount to suppression.

So, where is the sign off contest??

I don’t blog, I write in a journal that just happens to be online and open to the public. Sort of an everyman’s time capsule.

kbcds: “So, where is the sign off contest??”

Email to nonseqsignoff@amuniversal.com

Subject line “Sandwich Board” or some such.

Include name–phone–email–source you read

Thanks, Jocko.

Now, to come up with the punch line.

Should be fun! It’s a great exercise in creativity.

To those who don’t like comments or punchlines added to comics: so, why exactly are you reading these comments, and certainly why did you read down this far? It’s your choice…

@Jon Sequitur, I prefer triadic numbers (base three, with +, 0, - digits) anyway…

I don’t blog, I write in a journal that just happens to be online and open to the public. Sort of an everyman’s time capsule.

You read my mind, sir or ma’am! I just wish some people would ask my permission before reading my comments.

“I’ll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours..” - Bob Dylan said that.

“Bob Dylan said that.” - I said that.

“I said that.” - Bob Dylan and I both said that.

old very rare film – Greenwich Village, early 60s, the salad days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpJ0A09djm0

@Jon Sequitur, I prefer triadic numbers (base three, with +, 0, - digits) anyway

Take one: that must explain why you spell my name with a punct-e-ation mark.

Take two: you must have really weird lookin’ fingers.

Cheers, At Jon

I wish Some People wouldn’t post their thoughts on comic strips They’ve obviously never heard that the best ways to kill a joke

I hear Wiley is working up a new concept, about a family of pot heads. Called Ma and Pa Kettle. And here’s the cool part: they’re Black

I’m sure we’ll find a message in there somewhere

Do you know why members of the church of Christ don’t make love standing up?

They are afraid someone would think they are dancing.

Do you know why members of the church of Christ don’t make love standing up?

They are afraid someone would think they are dancing.

No, Jon, I just use three positions (against a surface) for +0-…

Jon - Nothing like vintage Dylan to slap you back to your senses. Thanks!

Oh, the no musical instruments in worship services Church of Christ folks aren’t against dancing. The people with this belie–

Make it stop!!!

Jesus H. Foxtrotting Christ on a dance floor, will someone please take Joe Allen’s gocomics account out and shoot it!

Or me. I don’t much care which any longer.

”Nothing like vintage Dylan To slap you back to your senses” – BrandaStarr said that

I called up the operator of time Just to hear a voice of some kind. When you hear the beep It’ll be three o’clock She said that for over an hour An’ I hung up

Turned on my player It was rock a day Johnny singin Tell your ma tell your pa Our love’s a gonna grow Ooh wah Ooh wah

Flag it, don’t tag it.

Persecution made the Church strong.

“Shut up!” he explained is amusing in a Ring Lardner story, but is inappropriate on a public comment board.

Just ignore opinions you don’t agree with. To enter into a dialogue is to validate.

but some of the other punchlines are a hoot! keep typing’

And an awful lot of them are just plain lame. There’s a reason the artist is paid for his work and they’re not.

Comix are like any other text: they elicit comment and criticism and co-creativity. That’s how they work; that’s how they connect.

Uh, no. Comic strips are a work of the artist. They always have been, for a great many decades before the Internet came along and let everybody and his brother think they could do better. Tell me this: If you go to a stand-up comedy club, would you like it if a heckler decides to tack on a superfluous, bad punchline to every joke?

A good use of the comments section would be to ask questions and give feedback, not to try to make yourself look clever.

I hear Wiley is working up a new concept, about a family of pot heads. Called Ma and Pa Kettle. And here’s the cool part: they’re Black. I’m sure we’ll find a message in there somewhere

I’m sorry, did I miss something and accidentally explain a joke? Boy, I wish I had nothing to do but sit around all day commenting on a comics strip.

“Shut up!” he explained is amusing in a Ring Lardner story, but is inappropriate on a public comment board.

Where did I tell somebody to shut up? I just wrote a wish that some people might one day realize they’re not funny, a wish probably never to be fulfilled. Seems like a couple of you took this to be a personal attack. Nothing I can do about your perceptions of yourself. Good luck having the message removed.

I keep my job, and hence my cash, by not replying to posts about our business on Medallia.