Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 19, 2013

Yay! Bears!

They shouldd put out a caldron with water in it. Always ready soup to be had!!!

clever.

Once again man feeding the bears disrupts the natural process.

@JohnnyDiegeo good one I live in MA

Glad I never took up skiing.

Me and two friends had an encounter with a black bear as a kid. All I remember of it is two gigantic yellow eyes. I wasn’t hurt just scared &*$%#&-less. As my mom described it we were all asses and elbows when we got back to camp.

Do bears eat ski bunnies?

Not the average bear.

Native Americans used to run herds of bison over cliffs. I wonder if, when humans are finally extinct, what species will take their place. Could it be bears? Would they pose their cubs on human-skin rugs?

It seems to me there are businesses that operate on exactly this model.

OK, that was a dark one there!

Reminds me of another classic bear drawing. Showed two bears sitting around an igloo. One bear says to the other; I love these, crunchy on the outside and chewy in the middle.

This remind me of a Farside cartoon. And it would almost certainly work.

Actually in real life, bears do not eat ppl unless provoked. They don’t go around hunting for them,…ppl hunt for bears to eat, tho!

roctor, no, but I do.. I love Wiley’s bears…so cute!

And if they’re into home renovation, they can panel the cave with those skis.

Those are gonna be two FAT bears!

Cute Wiley; now what is Danae and company doing?

Give a bear a skier, you feed him for a day.Set up a trick ski slope, and you feed him for the whole season.

Sometimes the comments are better than the comic!

Darn! This isn’t going to work for roadrunners :-(

At our mountainous radar site back in the ’50’s, bears were everywhere, and would tear apart anything they thought food was within. Some damfool left a box of steaks outside to thaw and a bear was busy at it. Said damfool thought it smart to run up behind said bear and whack its behind.He found that bears can run faster than humans and that crash-bar doors open outward only when they feel like it. Said fool slept on his stomach for quite a while after that.

Doesn’t the second amendment say we have the right to arm bears?

LOLOLOLOLOL

No freezers, sun. The muscle was dried into jerky, the hides into brain-tanned buckskin, sinew into thread, bowstrings, and glue, the bones and horns into tools. Jerky could be pounded into almost a powder, mixed its weight (not volume) of fat, with berries added, and you have pemmican, which provides calories and vitamins to carry through the winter without deficiency diseases. Kept dry in stomach or intestine bags, jerky and pemmican can last a year or more without refrigeration.

When I was a kid I wished I was an Indian, and actually made jerky and pemmican. I also learned forest lore and animal tracks and tried to eat edible herbs from the woods. Nice enough for a city kid, but I never would have survived that way..In line with your mention of the sharpshooters that slaughtered the herds, there is extended portrayal of that era in the Michener novel, CENTENNIAL. The bison tongues were often the only thing taken from a carcass, the rest left to decay, useless, while tribes on reservations were malnourished. .Interesting, too, that some of the same sharpshooters later went back to scenes of their slaughters to harvest the bones..CENTENNIAL is a great novel, and well worth the time it takes to read. The television mini-series is also greatly worthwhile.

If I HAD KNOWN it’d be this easy…