Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 19, 2017

Well, he warned you!

Human nature can be a bummer. What humans are doing to nature is worse.

He was a failure, not bad enough to work for the corporates. :(

My uncle had a sign in the rafters of his hunting cabin that read, “What the hell are you looking up here for?

In a snowball fight. Hold one in each hand. Throw one snowball high up in the air. When the person you want to hit looks up at it, hit him in the chest with the other one…Works every time..

Republican technique.

Human nature is funny. Trying thinking of something else when someone says, “Don’t think about the pink elephant in the room.”

Before there were flashmobs, a popular stunt to pull on strangers in public was to stand in the middle of a city and look up into the air. After you gather a large enough crowd to make it self-sustaining, step back and enjoy the spectacle of people trying to figure out what’s so interesting up there.

A version of this even works with non-humans. I hear that British pilots during the Falklands war would fly slowly back and forth along a beach and get the local penguins watching them like a slow-motion tennis match. Then the pilot would fly out to sea and return directly over the heads of the flock. As the approached, all the penguins would tilt their heads back, back, back…and as the plane passed overhead the entire flock would fall over on its backs.

Lemmings, right over the cliff.

A sign hung over the exit of a large Chicago department store that read: “Do you have your wallet?” A scam perpetrated by the local pickpockets. When you read the sign, an automatic reflex would cause you to touch the location of your wallet. The nearby pickpocket would see this and use it to his advantage.

The gullible are always handy for a laugh or a lift

Funny and educational!

dadoctah: the smother’s brothers used to do a schtick called ‘the old looking up in the air trick’…

How many obey the sign saying: " Wet Paint – DON’T TOUCH " ?

Worth the time. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3726704/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/08/mike-pence-touches-nasa-equipment-right-next-to-do-not-touch-sign

Mike Pence has jokingly defended himself after being photographed putting his hand on a piece of Nasa space equipment in contradiction of a “do not touch” sign.

Pence was pictured with his left hand resting on part of a spacecraft-in-the-making called the Orion, inches away from a notice with red lettering telling people not to touch the “critical space flight hardware”.

My all-time favorite graffito occurred back in the Vietnam War era. On a prominent billboard on University Avenue here in Madison, someone had spray-painted the ubiquitous counter-cultural sentiment “Question Authority!”.

Right underneath it, someone else had added “Why should I?”.

Seems that either sentiment would have some applicability here.

Interesting – people actually following the directions on a written sign – I had concluded from decades of sociological “research” that most people didn’t bother to or couldn’t read signs.

Quick: Don’t think of an elephant!

Think nice thoughts about a pussycat.

YISDERMORHORSISASSISDENDERISHORSSIS

Hindu remedy for ignorance – a chant

owa pause tajer pause kyam

repeat 7 times going from very slow with pauses to quickly with no pauses

Awareness will slowly dawn and you will see yourself in a new light

The great American voter. This enterprising guy’s just playing to his base.

Bernie must want another house.

Sales people use this trick as well.

Liberal and Conservative used to be adjectives not nouns.

When you’re out driving & there’s aren’t any cars in front of you, but a bunch behind you, make a sudden swerve around an imaginary pothole & watch in the mirror all the cars do the same!

As for the orange one, yesterday he claimed to own an original Renoir, but there’s just one little problem. The original has been in the Art Institute of Chicago since 1933 & their provenance is immaculate, having bought it from the woman, who bought it from the man, who bought it directly from Auguste Renoir!