Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 24, 2024

Horse play

Danae is just upset that somebody else came up with a better tall tale than hers.

Zinnnggggg …

I wish we were all nice like Horses!

Also, I like their version better.

Kind of reminds me a bit of that part of Gulliver’s Travels.

Yeah. Revisionist history. There’s going to be a lot more of that coming real soon.

That is rich from Danae and her comment on Revisionist history, considering how much of it already has been to make groups of people feel better about themselves.

ALL history is revisionist. Even when it’s movies or photographs, the one pointing the camera is choosing what to tell… and how to tell it.

Revisionist history is a boilerplate principle for Fox.

That’s all unbridled nonsense!

Horses originated in North America and went extinct there. Later the colonizers brought horses with them. Many of those horses escaped and roamed free.

Equine step-up on humans: Horses are so herd/community-conscious that in the wild a one would never put itself out of eyesight of another.

Even when corralled, one would keep itself awake while others slept.

The Native Americans didn’t have horses. The only horses were those that came from Europe. The Native Americans in the Southwest might’ve gotten some from the Spanish, but there weren’t any already in New England.

Road apples

In panel 3 they should each be asking: “why did YOU teach horses to write?”

Love those two.

If they met after sunset were they nightmares?

Everybody has a version depending on how much attention they gave to the history courses in school and how much they have come to believe the garbage that has inundated the airwaves in recent decades.

But, I like this version as a fairy tale with a much better outcome than reality.

1680 is when the Navajo revolted against the Spanish and started the spread of the horse across north America.But this is a good story anyway!

The truth: The pilgrims exterminated the Wampanoag and then had a celebratory feast.

You should hear the Turkey’s version.

Dispelling the revisionist history and accepting the truth and facts of history are what WOKE is all about.

Horse was a big contributor to the 1619 Project.

I like the story better in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, maybe we’ll get our own version…

The part about the reservations was a little depressing

The First Thanksgiving was a feast declared to celebrate the slaughter of 700+ Penobscot Indian new, women , and children with no loss to the murderers.

I may be wrong, it happened once before, but I thought horses didn’t come here until much later and I don’t think the first settler’s brought horses. I’m sure someone will edgumakate me on that.

I did not gnu that.

It must be true, it is straight from the horses mouth.

Horses are NOT nice. One of the adults killed the foal of a new horse introduced to the pasture. They can be quite nasty and dangerous.

Can’t blame the horses!

Thank you Wiley for all your delightful comics! They make us think about stuff and see the humor in life.

Horse Hockey!!!

Horses were first introduced to North America in 1519 by the Spanish explorers. They quickly spread over the grassy plains and were acquired by Native Americans by the mid-1600s.

In the Chinese horoscope I was born in the Year of the Horse, so there.

Horses, unlike humans, don’t have the luxury of pretense. If they act like there isn’t a predator there when there plainly is, they find themselves on the menu.

Cowpoke lore, unvarnished: “No, no naming. You mighta hadda eat the critter.”

Europeans brought horses to the Americas. The indigenes never developed the wheel beyond kids’ toys because they had no beasts of burden. Well there were llamas.

i was looking forward to a nice luscious baked ham. i haven’t even tried one since a plane wreck with a full load of fuel and 44 souls burned on the up-wind end of the NAS i was at. 1976. and i don’t like turkey, or white meat of any bird. MacD’s fixation on chicken breast puzzles me.

Revising history is one thing, but considering there weren’t any horses among either group of people, this is taking it to a whole new level!

Wileyhorses!

Alternative facts, or a figment of imagination – or perhaps both …

Lucy is a lot of fun.

Lysistrata would be proud.

It’s really crazy to see so many stories about the “4B” movement without any reference to “Lysistrata”.

Horse sense beats social media any day !

The colonists were supposed to mix fertilizer with their crops to make them grow. Guess where they got the fertilizer?