Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 05, 2012

So now the french are giving up to golf too?

He’s from Quebec, right? It’s how Canadians kill time during the summer between fights.

Where is the golf cart???

Kudos for the Quatre.Poomf, and Foomp. And no Super Bowl references! Amazing restraint, or extreme cowardice. Either way it’s all good.

I thought Yukon was in Storrs, Connecticut. Only kidding. That’s UConn, the University of Connecticut.

After this guy’s done with golf, he can watch tele and drink beers with the Mackenzie Brothers.

There are strange things done in the [lands of the] midnight sun…

Some people are stupid enough to golf in snow. I know I met a few of them in Edmonton, AB.

It just doesn’t get any better.

Winter golfers and golfettes have fluorescent balls.

@dukedog – I agree. He should have shouted, “Attention!”

Why are you so defensive? Do you SEE any holes in with all that snow?

@Grog!…“Some people are stupid enough to golf in snow. "

I heard they paint their balls black. Something about being able to find them. I can’t make the connection.

Sounds a bit more like Calvingolf.

considering the snow in the UK the acronym should be UMIST(University of Manchester Institute of Science and technology

Ah, a prime candidate for Private Eye’s “Pedants Corner”

“I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.” —General George S. Patton

Looking at the flags he does have a straight drive.

I thought in winter golfers played with blue balls, what they hit with their clubs is a totally different affair.

It does mean “Four” in French … L

Meant to just be a funny play on words…that’s all.

Takes balls to play in snow that deep!

Please… it’s Sunday… what else could I have meant!?

Ahhhh, yes. Winter golf. My husband has played golf in Michigan at least once per month for 204 consecutive months. Only he uses orange balls so he can find them. Makes me proud!! ;-)

In our company bowling league, there was a guy we called “Blue Balls” because he had a pair of blue duck pin bowling balls.

Wiley Miller – You’ve created one of the best, maybe even the best, contemporary comic strips. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Unless the word “mini” precedes it, golf is not a true test of skill. According to the late, great George Carlin whose wisdom I have modeled my life around.

Are you supposed to yell fore before or after you hit the ball?

Yay for Pierre of the North! I’ve missed him :)

That’s how guys like George W. Bush keep score in golf. They get a mulligan on every hole!

Rire à haute voix! LOL! Santé!

The warning “fore” is actually short for “beware forward.” The call of “‘ware fore’d” is from cannoneers warning their own people of the coming blast.

It’d be even funnier if he’d done a Jeb Clampett… (Beverly Hillbillies reference…)

In Kodiak, Alaska, there’s one golf course that is played in winter, in the snow, going up a mountain just above the town. Where there are golfers, there will be a golf course. Weather has nothing to do with it.

It took much work for my prognostication – but for today as the coin toss is made I predict the winner of today’s SuperBowl 46 will be…........Your Team!

Technically, French does not have an ‘h’ sound, so he would pronounce it ‘ole’ and not ‘hole’.

Twelve years of Wiley Miller, has been a joy. First in the Dispatch and now in the Post-Gazette. Personally meeting him in 2007 (I was embarrassingly gushy about it) is waay up there on my list. Next, two commenters quoting from R.W. Service adds to the fun.

My first culture shock in Canada was seeing golfers playing in that Vancouver drizzle they call rain.

(Yogi again)Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore, it’s too crowded!!!!!!!

i’ve even driven by the EOV course in norfolk, with the tees and greens busy in a crashing thunderstorm.

Whaaaaat? Canadians wouldn’t cheat like that! They’d say “oh, sorry I missed the whole, eh?” ;-)