Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 03, 2011

DOH!

That’s so unrealistic! A man asking for advice?!?

Some times it does help to read the instructions first.

Yes! A proper information booth! When I see that sign on a booth I like to go up to it and ask stuff like “What’s the population of Albania?” At the local farmer’s market, the booth actually says “Lost and Found Information”….. and if you knew me you’d know I can’t always leave that alone.

On an entirely unrelated note, I’m not all that popular, for some reason….

Before the invention of the light bulb, you could see wheels turning in someone’s mind.

Thanks all. I love information. :) I have to use that one, Binary.Forgot to mention that I’m amazed, X_tech — you read the directions?But au contraire, gmartin — I have always been very very polite. Very. Polite does not rule out insane.Um… I mean inane. Er…..And Coyoty — doesn’t the light bulb HELP you see them, especially when someone has an extra bright idea?

There’s one in a similar vein (and even funnier IMHO) — an old ‘BC’ cartoon. Caveman at the patent office. He has a triangular wheel. He’s explaining to the patent examiner, “It’s an improvement on the square wheel. One less corner.”

Just as I thought, women were always the great inventors.

Hope he has his laptop with him!

Wouldn’t a triangular wheel have one less bump than a square one? Dang, they never should have stolen my “genius”

Shouldn’t it be “Complaints” not “Information”?

Guess my square peg won’t fit here. -http://about.me/booksatthebeach

@BinaryIs that a European swallow or an African swallow?

If it helps, walrus, i hear that Ethopians swallow food much less than Europeans.

she only knows cause her husband has one in the garage that he invented. ;-)

I get the feeling that Susan, like me, made those phone calls long before caller ID had even been thought of. The “old days” did have a few advantages.

But her wheel is only theoretical — it exists only on paper. At least he actually built his!

…and…“Heeere’s yer Sign!”

@somebodyshort: I resent the suggestion that I’m not capable of asking for advice of my own free will. Your comment is a perfect example of the anti-male mindset that prevails wthin “Non Sequitur” and the majority of its fans.

Obviously Congress at work… Especially the TEA Pot section…

But what if he was trying to make a brick?

Okay. She has an advantage. She’s obviously from the future where there are wooden structures, door handles, paper, writing utensils, etc. etc. etc. And she’s probably thinking that men are such neanderthals… Is that a pyramid on the top of her booth?

Now I’ve got “Good Advice” in my head…

“Oogah Malook was a Neanderthal man,A very poorly educated soul.He had a block of marble—the edges were square,And in the center was a hole.One day he had to get from his cave in NatchezTo his uncle’s cave in Mobile.I said ‘Round off those edges, and buy a set of tires,And Oogie, baby—that’s a wheel!”

Once he marries, spouse will wear off a “few rough edges”, and it will do just fine?

See http://style.org/unladenswallow/ which actually does answer the swallow question, including for the African version. A wonderful page.

TexTech (any relation to X_tech? — sounds like good names for twins!)I wasn’t going to mention it but you are quite right. I’m flattered that anyone might think there was caller ID when I was a kid!They didn’t even have mobile phones yet when I got old enough to drive a dinosaur.

Hi SusanSunshine, Are the people who work at the booth for your local farmers’ market singers? I’ll bet they’d do a stellar rendition of “Amazing Grace” if you asked them. (Or they’d just sigh and roll their eyes at you.)

seems to me she is more likely the receiving clerk…

I, too, had a light-bulb moment recently.Unfortunately the bulb was a CFL bulb, and by the time it was fully lit I had forgotten the idea.I really gotta get some LEDs for those moments!++++++What was I just saying?

Funny!

Goody! An information booth that really works! Wonder if she knows how to handle Windows 7 and Office 2010

@Susan Sunshine- love your sense of humor and attitude. It’s almost as wierd as the one I’ve been honing for 66 years.@BMonk- perhaps you’ve been misLED.@Hunter 7- it’s an information booth, not a miracle kiosk (and I have NEVER owned an Apple product, so I’m not biased.)

The nanny state at work. The Tea Party should close the information booth down as fast as possible before they create even more damage.