Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 21, 2011

santa,have the reindeer fly over.

Capt. Eddie to the rescue!!!

They don’t have a boat?

EDDIE!! WHERE ARE YOU???

Yeah, yeah…but blueskies put it in better verse :-)

Eddie! Eddie!

(WAG) That’s easy. Wiley.

And people keep accusing Cap’n Eddie of having a weak grasp on reality. He’s the only one that has been able to figure out what’s going on all around us. I’ve always had faith in him. Him, and a couple pitchers of Flo’s egg nog.

Christmas is hosed. Chanukah anyone?

Bob seems to know what’s important in an economy that is still unbooming……

Carabou are actually rather good swimmers in even Arctic waters. They have a double pelt, with hollow hair on the outer layer, which insulates, and provides bouyancy. There is no reason why the deer are not swimming back, unless they are on strike, for higher pay, and better benefits.

Doc, come on…NO POLITICS!!……Oh, wait……

LOVE the overstuffed arm chair as the driver’s seat … thanks Wiley !!!! You da man.

Where is Mel Gibson when you need him???

The reindeer can’t fly unless they are attached to Santa’s sleigh – from the first strip in the series

Maybe Danae will get wind of the problem, and get so mad she solves it. Just thinking outside the box, to the least likely person.

Bob? or, bob?

The Elves make billions of toys per annum, but they can’t slap together a boat 30 seconds?

…This has to be Captain Eddie to the rescue

Indeed, Wiley made it clear that the reindeer are Santa’s engines, and just like the engines on an airplane can’t fly by themselves, neither can the reindeer..Which reminds me: it’s Bad Old Christmas Joke Time: Those of you who’ve already heard the one about Santa’s Christmas Eve visit from the FAA inspector may skip what follows….So it’s Christmas Eve, and the FAA inspector arrives for Santa’s annual airworthiness check. He walks around the sleigh and reindeer with his clipboard, checks the sled’s landing gear, the reindeer’s APU exhaust ports, Rudolph’s nose light, and so forth. Then he climbs into the sleigh for the flight test. “What’s that for?” asks Santa, noticing that the inspector has a rifle in his lap..“Well,” says the inspector, “I’m not really supposed to tell you this… but you’re going to lose an engine on takeoff.”

Well, they say fat guys float really well…

Eddie! Eddie! he’s our man! if he can’t do it…

How about the Ekert? One allegedly fictitious character can aide another, can’t they? Or if the eight tiny reindeer all face Santa and simultaneously emit methane, they could jet themselves back PDQ.

Mandatory political comment: whose fault is it that they don’t have a boat: the Democans or the Republicrats?

It’s going to be a flying saucer, very Non-sequitur!

same for reindeer. they swim them island to island in herds. big deal, wiley. can you tell your crowd is getting bored with this thread, already? oh, i know! eckert and capn eddie! no, that was cringingly boring too. oh well.

“How about this to be contrarian—-no Capt. Eddie to the rescue, you heard it here first!”

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Wasn’t I the first to posit someone else, namely Danae? (And, yes, in my mind, I was excluding Capt. Eddie.)

Enough with the global warming nonsense. It’s a hoax. I hate this garbage.

isn’t there an inflatable raft in the bag? i know i asked for one of those once… never got it.. maybe he’s catching up on back orders?

oh yeah, is that Bob from Accountemps? :)

my grandaughter sez Wiley’s story is better than the old one…

at least the deer are fat and hopefully they float … well reindeer jerky is good I hear , so lets not fret , we will just have a beer .

In the first strip of this storyline, it said that the reindeer can only fly when hooked up to the sleigh, so they can’t fly over to Santa.

Yes, but ACC is disbelieved by the GOP who seem to have ADD and won’t STFU. It’s a real PITA. Just my POV.

May be, go to the original Christmas Spirit and ask Jesus to walk over the waters in order to rescue your mith

I dunno, caribou aren’t that smart.

Wiley, knowing that you dislike political meanderings, it cracks me up how often you have to remind commenters. (I’m sorry.) I am very much enjoying your poetry and this arc. Thank you!

May you have a peaceful and welcomed holiday time.

No boat! OH DEAR! Best call on Cap`t Eddie for he will be a deah and rescue the reindeah. .I`m soooo loving the poetry and story. (btw – for all you early posters – its now 9:27 pm Pacific – Happy Solsitice!)

And where are the plants to eat it?…

This storyline would work except for 2 inconvenient truths: 1. Santa’s reindeer fly. 2. Global Warming theory doesn’t.

:-P