Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 07, 2011

Clam sauce always makes me giggle.

Is that possible?

And she can root for Marcel next time, too.

It’s a pork fat thing….I think.

Sushi’s a word that’s just dying to be repeated……but not actually eaten - not by me at least.

Just keep her away from Emeril!!

au Jus, that means funny, right?

Take any word and repeat it like a mantra, over and over and over, and before long, it will become funny - or profound, I forget which…

Bieber Bieber Bieber Bieber Bieber… Yep, funny. Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck… Nope, not profound.

Wiley, getting ideas from Zippy? Oh, well. You’re more original more often than most. We all have off days.

Kneed the breast. Need the breast. Kneed the breast.

As a young man, I cooked along with Graham Kerr and Julia. I was great with a cork screw.

Why is there breast of chicken or turkey, but not of beef or lamb?

evoo, yum-o, joy of the mountain: thank you, Rachel Ray

How about “optical”. When said consecutively out loud, it sounds like a horse gallop.

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, upon a slitted sheet I sit

One of Zippys shticks is to get stuck on a word or phrase that takes his fancy and repeat it over and over like he’s caught in a loop. I’m just chalking it up as a coincidence unless you also have Danea take a sudden interest in watching laundry in tumble dryers.

Coyoty said, about 5 hours ago

Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck…

Stop, you’re making me thirsty.

Although truth be told, I prefer Zlaty Bazant.

Originally, I thought she meant using “butterfly” as a verb was funny. “Butterfly the pork loin.”

Anybody remember the Animaniacs:

Lake Titicaca, Lake Titicaca It’s between Bolivia and Peru. Lake Titicaca, Lake Titicaca, With waters tranquil and blue. Lake Titicaca, Lake Titicaca, Why do we sing of its fame? Lake Titicaca, Lake Titicaca, We really like saying its name! Titicaca!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJxdL0pH9pw

I’ve found that if repeated a sufficient number of times, any word loses all meaning.

Rutabaga!

how about the Geographical Fugue?

Re: Breast of Beef or Lamb. There are such, they are just not as ubiquitous as those of fowl. Breast of Beef is usually called Brisket and is widely used in Corned Beef and Pastrami. Breast of Lamb is readily available from butchers and can make mighty fine eating. See the following sites for information and recipes.

www.foodsubs.com/MeatBeefB&F.html www.ehow.com/how5117441cook-breast-lamb.html

Who the H is Zippy? Never heard of that one!!!!

odeliasimone said: ” Who the H is Zippy?”

Now THAT’S funny, repeated or not!

I recall (but can’t find) something similar in Bloom County and the word ‘quonset hut’ quonset hut quonset hut quonset hut quonset hut .

I wonder if the word “mantra” does this?

The very idea of a butterflied pork loin is troubling; sort of like a cross between Tinkerbell and a pig with wings.

I’m with WILEY on this – he’s had way too many ‘I read that in Calvin & Hobbes’, and now Zippy. Zippy, for crying out loud!

Accusing an award-winning cartoonist of palagarism is serious stuff. And pretty bleeep unlikely.

Hey, I’ve been bleeped! And it wasn’t even a dirty word!

(Geez, they even mispelled ‘bleep.’ Can’t recognize a clean expletive and can’t spell either. So much for artificial intelligences.)

Abondanza…(what’s even funnier is when you plug that in here: http://www.freetranslation.com/)

breast of beef would be udderly icky

Try repeating “toy boat.”

Hey, Wiley, you can find “Zippy the Pinhead” in the comics section of the Washington Post. It is an acquired taste.

Please don’t insult Wiley! Just chalk this up as a ‘The Simpson’s Did It!’ South Park coincidence. It’s still funny.

Given enough time, monkeys will type Shakespeare. Not that either writer is a monkey. I’m not throwing around insults, either, just references.

This just goes back to my other thought that there are no original thoughts any more, and that all things will be reused, eventually.

who said “there is nothing new under the sun”? it may be true, but I still want to see what Danae does next!

mmmmm pork loin…….

Russel, how udderly true about cows not having breast meat.

Read Clarke’s “The Longest Science Fiction Story Ever Told” fro a take on stuff being repeated.

I suspect Wiley doesn’t need a plagerism suit so the implications are why he’s been “touchy.”

@ Coyoty: It simply amazes me how someone can take the words of a pre-pubescent comic character concerning a cooking show and turn them into a political commentary.

Then again , what can you expect from someone who can’t even spell their avatar’s name properly ?

It’s “coyote” in American English and Spanish. “Coyotl” in Nahuatl (from whence the modern name derives).

Here I’ve been called and all I got is, apparently I missed Zippy.

Didn’t “Zippy the Pinhead” get its start as an underground comic for acid-heads? Weren’t LSD-users often referred to as “pinheads?”

If Danae were watching chef Gordon Ramsay she could learn a lot of really funny f*ing words!!

Yes, I LOVE all the cooking shows (competitive) and enjoy all the recipies - not the sushi or other things that normal people find disgusting. I love to cook good healthy foods that are yummy.

Wiley, I did not mean to imply plagiarism, the part about “more original more often than most” was sincere & I love your work. I’ve tried to write, originality is hard. I guess I’m the one with the “off day.”

For those asking; “Who’s Zippy?” from Wiki, “Zippy made his first appearance in Real Pulp Comix #1 in March 1971. The strip began in The Berkeley Barb in 1976 and was syndicated nationally soon after, originally as a weekly strip. It has been a daily feature since 1985, distributed by King Features Syndicate.

It’s often unintelligible, on rare occasions profound, & this strip is a recurring theme.