Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 18, 2009

Touche! Point to Danae!

A new culture without Danae? Now where would be the fun in that?

The fun would come with it lasting more than three minutes.

Reality. What a Culture!

A culture starts with a group of people, not just one obnoxious, bossy one.

OK..here’s the drill… look Danae, it just so happens you’re living in the culture under my roof. If you want to live in your own culture, please send me your new address when you arrive. Until then, you are living in THIS culture. Which by the way, has food in the fridge, indoor plumbing, running water, electricity, TV, telephone, clean sheets on your bed and a loving father who can ground your snotty nose until you’re 18 if you don’t make a serious attitude adjustment before the sun goes down. Get back to me…..

ejcapulet, I’m not too sure about that! How much ya wanna bet kreole is a father? Anyway, the little dudette asks a good question….

reality = why we read the cartoons on every site we can find.

Hey Pearlandpeach, I thought we read cartoons (comics) to ESCAPE reality.

Isn’t that what I said??

Kreole, VERY NICE! :)

Good point, like I said “make birth control retroactive to 1950”.

reality, what a concept….. he won’t be the only one she drives to drink. hey, ejcaplet, who do you think rounds up the others? the obnoxious bossy one! if it wasn’t, we’d all still be grazing out in a field somewhere..

My mother told me that abortion should be retroactive. What did she mean?

Reality . What people go along with .

Well said, kreole. We might have less bratty kids in the world if others echoed your views on bringing up kids.

But that was funny! Well done, Wiley.

Hey, is that Richard Nixon with an umbrella drink in the last panel? Now THERE’S a non sequitur…..

I have practiced the culture without children all of my life. When I want a little dose of reality, I visit people who have them. Works for me very well. LOL

How about starting a Culture Club! Oh that’s right, Boy George already did that back in the 80’s! What I didn’t know was what their song ”Karma Chameleon” meant. From Wiki:

“In an interview, Culture Club frontman Boy George explained: “The song is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have, the fear of standing up for one thing. It’s about trying to suck up to everybody. Basically, if you aren’t true, if you don’t act like you feel, then you get Karma-justice, that’s nature’s way of paying you back.””

Wiki

We all should be more like Danae and be true to ourselves! Now if I could get that song out of my head….”Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon,,,,” ARG!

Belly laugh. Thanks Wiley.

Hmm, is it me, or would a culture without children die with the first generation?

Vexatron - Good question. Ask the Shakers. Oh, that’s right; they all died out.

One germ does not a culture make.

It’s amazing how much can be learned from this Danæ segment:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1975

In other Universes Danae might be a goddess.

The will, whim and wit of “Danae”, might bring World Peace and Enlightenment.

Who dares to state that this is the ONLY REALITY ???

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Wiley Miller is, after-all, only the scribbler of the Non-Sequitur Chronicles. The reporter of these drug-induced Flights of Fantasy and Cosmic Musings !!!!!

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Reality. What God knows.

Culture starts in a petri dish.

Dad being stumped (panel 4) doesn’t make Danae right.

cleo’s a bare… Wander over to For Better or For Worse for a kindred spirit.

As a grandparent, one of the words I’m most privileged to say is “Goodbye!”

vexatron1984 said, about 5 quests ago

“Hmm, is it me, or would a culture without children die with the first generation?”

Not always: the Shakers lasted some 150 years; Christian monastics have gone about 1750 years. Some sociologists call such cultures parasitic, since they depend on recruiting members born to other cultures…

It seems to me that’s not quite how cultures start. Rather, like most good lies, it’s a half truth.

A culture starts when a group of people form a community with its own rules, and others come to respect it enough to join it or at least allow it to continue. No demands for respect. No one individual, obnoxious and bossy or not. Even if there is a individual founder or visionary, for the culture to exist, others must join that person.

Let’s all stop having children and end this nonsense once and for all!

I’m with BMonk on this one; there’s a consensus factor for a culture to survive the first test (and subsequent ones). If it has survival value, it can get off the ground (how’s that for badly mixed metaphors?)

Don’t give up on the species completely, dad, just because one is a dud. You still have one human child! (Who apparently was sent to her room a long time ago and never came out, since we seldom see her…)

Nose Hit !!!