Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 23, 2021

We need to save those Wiley bears!!!

That looks just like my brother. He’ll procrastinate starting a project until after the deadline and then go " Oh well, it wasn’t meant to be "

if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.

Pick any two. On time delivery, Best price. Good quality

How much longer? “Two weeks”.

“Sorry if you’re upset about not meeting the schedule in the contract, but this delay is covered by the act of God clause.”

This is obviously the “B” ark.

By the way, Mr Contractor, did I tell you that the bonus for finishing on time and on spec is that the Wiley Bears won’t eat you?

The only ungodly thing is the contractor.

The Republican* health care plan.

And infrastructure plan.

Pretty sure that is godly rain.

That’s why God told Noah to do it himself.

“And we’re running over budget – I’ll pass the costs on to you.”

I see today’s comic is a re-run – a different drawing but the same message. I gave the comic to my construction group five to ten years ago.

In oldest version of the flood we know, story of Atra-Hasis (later borrowed for Gilgamesh), flood was (literally) an over-kill idea of curing overpopulation. Fortunately the gods decide to keep things more in control in their future attempts to limit human reproduction – see Covid-19.

More ‘FACT-based’ than the original story.

From this and a few of his previous strips I would say that Wiley had a very bad experience with a contractor.

I did also. Remodeled the kitchen of our old house in 2012. We lived with a “temporary” kitchen for several months. Even tho all the new cabinets had arrived(we had to pay extra for plywood sides and backs as everyone was using pressed wood) Once we had everything, it still took several months to get everything installed.

Had the same problem with Sears-this was after the company was sold, last appliance we ever bought from them-when it came time to install our new dish washer, the person who had gotten the contract had no idea how to install it. fought with Sears until they refunded the installation fee(which took a couple of months)then hired a master plumber to finally install it. (which took him all of 30 min)

Crowd control in the boarding area must have been a trial.

I suspect Mr bib overalls isn’t on the manifest.

LOL. . .Noh could have saved himself a lot of time and trouble just picking out an amoeba or two, and some of the other “first” life forms. Much smaller boat, and after the flood they could just have evolved. . .also keeping the ark clean would have been much easier. . .i mean, if you’re going to go anachronistic, ya gotta go whole hog. . .

good thing he built it himself

Three ha’pence a foot!

Reminds me of the line that the contractor always uses the first draw to buy a boat. . . .

Since the bears are there, maybe Noah has something in mind for the contractor.

Carpenter’s Union rules

He’s also splitting his time working on two other arks. For some reason, there was a sudden shortage on ark parts.

Good thing Noah built it himself.

some things never change

So, it will be Noah’s Raft until the flood passes.

I had this comic hanging in my office (at a construction company) for years. I think the original language was a little stronger.

How long? Two weeks.

That project is further ahead of ours to deal with the climate crisis.

As I wait for the roofer who was supposed to start already to finally show up, while rainy season in California’s about to start (one hopes, anyway, even if not for my sake.)

Some guy took his two dogs for a boat ride on a pond. The story was embellished through the years.

Not really an accurate characterization of the rain by the contractor, is it? Now that I think of it, I don’t recall that the myth mentions Noah having a contractor . . .

1. Must be a union contractor.

2. possible bases for the Flood:

a. End of Ice Age melting flooded lowlands around the Mediterranean where many neolithic settlements were.

c. The gods were drinking too much beer and couldn’t hold it. (I’d say coffee but that hadn’t been discovered back then.)

“Forty days and forty nights from now, we’ll finish it.”

I thought Noah was his own contractor?

This is why the Unicorns and Dinosaurs got left behind, the Contractor cut a Lot of corners and the boat came out only 10% of the contracted size.

On the other hand, Noah needed to feed those Lions SOMETHING.

Don’t you mean “Godly” rain?

Someone sent me a note, once – "An electrician once asked me ’What’s the time?’ I said, ‘Between 8.00 and 12.00’ ".

Have it done in 2 weeks.

Double the price and triple the time…

Noah de the mistake of bringing two termites onto the ark.

Aaaaaaand, the first government contractor was founded.

Voobah Voobah Voobah