Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 23, 2010
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Transcript:
Caveman: Um... we don't have any cash. Cavewoman: I thought you said you were going to the bank yesterday. Man: I got busy with stuff and got over there too late. Woman: But it's Saturday! Now we can't go out for dinner or buy groceries until Monday! Man: I'm sorry. Woman: Thanks to you, we're stuck here and can't even afford to go out for a movie! Man: Uh... that hasn't been invented yet. Woman: That's not the point!! Man: Sigh. Woman: Sigh. Danae: ...And that's when the ATM machine came along and changed the world. Lucy: History is much for interesting when you edit it.
Why did the Mayans invent a calendar that goes to 2112, and then died off 500 years ago? If they had given the Conquistadors syphylis, instead of vice vesa, things would be different. Oh, pardon me, that’s revisionist history. That was then, this is now. Or is it?