Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 09, 2020

Cool. I’m suddenly thinking Maine looks like a better place to live…

Can’t call her ‘Stupid’!

And why didn’t I think of that!? I grew up in the desert. Because the annual precipitation was about 9 inches… snow was near to impossible! So a report on a local Blizzard… would have been very short!

Unless… the report was on DQ Blizzards… then I would have written a small book! (Grin!)

Lucy is impressive. Not too many pygmy horses know about snake demographics.

No venomous snakes…? …Have you checked the nearest used car dealership? Hey-oooo!

At least choose a fun subject to research if living in Maine, like which restaurant serves the best New England clam chowder.

c’mon, rattlesnakes?

Love the turtle.

Then find some non-venomous snakes and teach them to be venomous! (Although that does change it from a research assignment to a experiment.)

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. A visit to the local pet shop would provide endless opportunities to ‘introduce’ some evidence

What happened to Charlie?

Try doing one on the South eastern Australian varieties. Plenty to write about – but then it’s already been written.

Thanks again Wiley, love your storied cartoons. Don’t ever go away!

My neighbor’s kid’s project was to summarize all the stupid things Trump has said while in office. He’s up to 500+ pages so far. He’s afraid he won’t finish before school starts because new stuff comes out every day. His favorite was that children are immune to covid-19.

We had to tell the teacher what our topic would be and he/she did have the right of refusal.

She picked up a really good topic for a paper.

Wrong there is one called the king pine snake very, very rare , not known to bite humans .

A fact I learned in survival school. In the Philippines, there are 132 species of snake. 131 of them are venomous. The other swallows you whole.

St Patrick also went to Maine? Who knew?!

Wait just one minute. No venomous snakes in the state of Maine?! What about Paul LePage?

You trying to tell me there are no Copperheads in Maine??

Timber Rattlesnakes

Now I have to go look that up. . .Thanks, Wiley! (And I wanted one day off from fact-checking. . .)

They have a law school, so I sure they have venemous snakes

What, Maine doesn’t have politicians?

This is what happens when you give some people the “freedom” to do whatever they want. They "want’ to do nothing and still get full credit for it. I mean an A+ for hard work is indistinguishable from an A+ for just showing up when looked at and not questioned.

She could write about talking horses of Maine – but maybe she did that last year.

According to several websites, the only snake species in Maine are: northern black racer (aka eastern racer), ribbon snake (eastern ribbon , northern ribbon , and northern brown ribbon), garter snakes (eastern and maritime garter snake), eastern milk snake, northern red belly snake, northern water snake, northern ring-necked snake, brown snake and smooth green snake. The milk snake is a mottled grayish-tannish thing with brown-is red blotches that shakes its tail when threatened so is often mistaken for a timber rattlesnake.

I went to camp in Maine at the foot of Rattlesnake Mountain

Little known fact that St. Patrick vacationed there in the 5th century….

There’s always a loophole…and Danae will find it!

That’s what I like about northern Minnesota. Sure, there are mosquito squadrons, savage ticks, and black flies that can bite off an ear. But no rattlesnakes.

She could seek out private collectors of venomous snakes…or continue to skive off all summer.

There are Venomous snakes in Maine. Do not forget the Timber rattler.

Wonder how many other things Lucy knows that I don’t. Guess that’s why they call it horse sense.

Grew up in FL. We had all of them! Four varieties of venomous. Didn’t stop us from playing and camping in the woods. In fact, as a kid, we had a word for people who acted strange. We called them “snake bit”.

No, but we have ticks, and blackflies, and no-see-ums. Wanna trade?

thank you for making it big enough to read!!!

It’s good to have the cartoons back. Not a fan of those Sunday Stories.

I thought Western Washington was unique in not having venomous snakes. Two days ago I was walking and saw what looked like a drawstring with a braided pattern on the back and a plastic blob at the end. I got closer, and it came alive as a baby garter snake! Then it slithered away, raising its head like a cobra to gain speed. When it got to the other side of the trail, it coiled up and tried to strike my foot. It’s so cute!

But seriously, now Danae will have to show her research that there are no venomous snakes in Maine.

Yeah, they said there were no alligators in Maine, too, and look how that turned out for Oliver Platt.

You do realize this is a cartoon, Right?

I recall reading about a science teacher in Kansas who offered his kids a dollar for every stone they found. Turns out that Kansas was never glaciated and so has essentially zero stones. (And if you think that’s just crap cluttering up my brain, you should see the rest of the attic.)

I am just glad that Homer series is done. I can enjoy the Sunday strip again!

As a big snake fan and keeper, I am disappointed with myself for not knowing there were no venomous snakes in Maine. However, I now know that if I ever go to Maine, it is safe to pick up any snake I see there!

Matter closed THERE. 2020+ years of “Apple” explaining Biblical Terms can have a HACK at Odinism if one needs to learn.Bottom Line: Our Priest is expecting the AUDIENCE to turn in their paper to him if any wish to be granted inn through the GATE of Our King’s honorable ceremony (unless already Native American beating their hearts out on Our Sacred Drums for Little Sweetheart to make it to the ❤️ of Our Sacred Mother. The Lakota were absolutely perfectly TAUGHT. However, Reading all these KNOWLEDGEABLE commits about what is going on, it’s obvious it will be a very small ceremony. For REAL!!

Excepting the Senator

then write about the turtle you just picked up…..it’s too cute!

At least she knows the difference between venomous and poisonous.

Danae will become the Greatest Lawyer in History.

Or at least the Richest.

Well, you could probably create a fairly good report on why and how there are no longer any venomous snakes in Maine.

After all, timber rattlesnakes used to be there, and they are no longer there – so what happened to them?

I remember a story, told to me by one of the students involved, of a mathematics professor, whose final exam was:

Propose an unsolved problem, then solve it. If you succeed, it was too simple, and you get no credit. If you fail to solve it, you get no credit. There is no partial credit.

The students complained to the administration. When confronted, the professor claimed to see nothing wrong with the reasoning. He lost his job

sea urchins?