Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 10, 2012

NOW I’ve seen everything.

We’ll check Youtube later for the video.

But will he be a One Hit Wonder ?

“And just think, Your Majesty – this will definitely improve peon-Royalty relations because they’ve been asking for this for years. Er, what I mean, sire, is, um…”

Reverse-hacking that URL is quite enlightening. Don’t have time to read it all at the moment, but it’s been bookmarked.

Q rating?

really. what is a Q rating?

Perhaps if we brought it back here in the U S it would help with violent crimes. And put the executions on primetime tv.

@jack75287Aha! You read Dilbert a couple of days ago!

A timely reminder that no matter how popular the King, the people can turn to another and your Q rating will be decided in the annals of history. When you’re dumped, …..you’re dumped….no matter how popular you have been.

anals of history?

I’ve always thought that the ultimate irony was that Dr. Guillotine, who invented this humane method of murder should meet his own demise on the machine he invented !

Wiley stole this from Baloo: http://balooscartoonblog.blogspot.com/ 3rd comic from the top.

Except, of course, the head remains alive for two minutes after the severing so the victim gets the horror of knowing their end a little longer. Yeah, painless.

Is there some law about artists not drawing a similar subject ? There’s no theft involved !Each illustrator has his/her own take and twist. Vive la diversité !

Old West hangings were public and seldom stopped crime, merely led to organizing it.

A slow run down Wall Street, stopping at every corner to dispense with the financial criminals there…that’s at least two weeks’ busy harvesting…then ‘K’ Street in DC, maybe less than a month. Maybe two different crews harvesting simultaneously…yes, it could be done quickly.

The cutting edge of social media??

(To the tune of “You Came a Long Way From Saint Louie”)You went the wrong way, ole King LouieThat’s what the population cried.You’d just sit and petWith Marie AntionetteIn your place at Versailles.We’re gonna take you and the queenDown to the guillotineIt’s somewhere in the heart of town.And when that fella there gets throughWith what he’s gonna doYou’ll have no place to wear your crown…

During the French Revolution, three professionals were arrested and convicted of having bourgeois values. They were a doctor, a lawyer, and an engineer. They led to the guillotine one by one. The crowd was roaring with anticipated pleasure.

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First up was the doctor. How dare he enrich himself through other people’s illnesses? Access to basic health care is a right, right?

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The doctor was placed in the guillotine, and the lanyard was yanked. The blade started on its massive, implacable way down.

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And lurched to a stop.

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The official in charge declared that it would be inhumane to make the doctor suffer this way more than once, so he set the doctor free. The crowd howled.

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The executioner checked his equipment. All was in order. He put a small tree branch in, and successfully lopped it in half. He re-sharpened the blade.

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Next up was the lawyer. Who needs an excuse to wish such a lying, cheating scoundrel dead? The crowd was thunderous in its applause. The lawyer was placed in the guillotine, and the lanyard was yanked.

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Again, the blade stopped part-way down!

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The presiding official once again said that he would set this prisoner free because of the unusual circumstances. The crowd screamed in frustration.

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Now came the engineer, a man whose innovations and devices were costing jobs. The crowd fell silent. The executioner checked and re-checked his equipment.

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As the engineer was marched up to the guillotine, he looked carefully at it, and said, “Wait. I see your problem….”

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>We also tend to gloss over the thousands of Germans who were ideologically opposed to the Third Reich. These “good” Germans were also “disappeared” , during the rise of Hitler.