Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 22, 2022

It would help if the river was frozen over

I don’t do well with heights. A one meter board is about all I can take. My apartment is on the tenth floor but I have no balcony !!

If you buy a cheap bungee cord online, will it be a real one or fake? If you are drunk, there is only one way to tell.

At least he was smart enough to test. There have been reports of bungee jumpers, who didn’t even make sure that the unstretched cord didn’t reach the ground below.

Snap.

Fish can whistle?

Before the punchline in the last panel, the “Hold my Beer” T-Shirt had gave me all sorts of thoughts as to where this was going.

Do they still do bungee jumping

And THIS is why you bungee over rivers and not over streets or parking lots from construction cranes.

That seems a bit of a stretch.

They’ve got that one just right.

That’s one way to entertain the fish.

Better doing that with a cord of such a length over a body of water than from a bridge over a busy Highway.

Fun fact number one: a mother giraffe gives birth standing up, and the newborn falls about six feet to the ground. The jolt of landing, like slapping a newborn human baby, is what usually starts them breathing.

Fun fact number two: some believers in reincarnation feel that we retain our memories of the last life in the womb, and they’re wiped clear instantly when we draw our first breath after being born.

Combining these two things: right before a baby giraffe hits the ground, it just has time to formulate one thought when it sees the ground rushing toward it and before the reset button gets hit: “OMG, I’m a giraffe!”

Whoa, how did he manage to nail Ann Talnaes’s Mo (panels 3-5) by drawing a fish?

I thought this was supposed to represent bungee fishing. That’s why he has his mouth open when he hits the water.

Bungee jumping…human yoyo

Worst . Dry . Fly . Ever !

“HEY, Y’ALL…WATCH THIS!!”

He took a fifty foot bungee jump in a sixty foot cord.

The length of a bungee cord depends on who’s jumping.

There’s a lot of science involved in Bungie jumping. No laughing matter, but still lots of fun.

If he comes from Worcestershire, would he be a dipping sauce?

Is that a snowball?

Famous last words, “Hold my beer!”

This ’toon is entitled, “The Scream”

The first jumper is supposed to be a 300 lb bag of weights. The second jumper is supposed to be whoever set the cleats and tied the knots.

Two guys are bungee-jumping one day. The first guy says to the second. “You know, we could make a lot of money running our own bungee-jumping service in Mexico.”

The second guy thinks this is a great idea, so the two pool their money and buy everything they’ll need – a tower, an elastic cord, insurance, etc.

They travel to Mexico and begin to set up on the square. As they are constructing the tower, a crowd begins to assemble. Slowly, more and more people gather to watch them at work.

The first guy jumps. He bounces at the end of the cord, but when he comes back up, the second guy notices that he has a few cuts and scratches. Unfortunately, the second guy isn’t able catch him, he falls again, bounces and comes back up again.

This time, he is bruised and bleeding. Again, the second guy misses him. The first guy falls again and bounces back up. This time, he comes back pretty messed up – he’s got a couple of broken bones and is almost unconscious.

Luckily, the second guy finally catches him this time and says, “What happened? Was the cord too long?”

The first guy says, “No, the cord was fine, but what the heck is a’ pinata’?”

Well done Wiley! Well done! ROFLMAO

Darwin’s principle in action.

“Hey there, cousin Moe. Is that gang of piranhas still around?”

Famous last words: Hold my beer.

Someone is trolling for sharks.

Next time Mr. Carpe at diem, take a bite out of their nether regions and they won’t bother your private world again.

this has to be somebody’s dream job, right?

Wonderfully clever and original gag. Funny!

Detached retinas is all I need

This comic is the result of a very creative mind. I loved it.

Nice.

Have we seen that guy before? He looks a bit like Kate and Danae’s father Joe, but it’s hard to tell with his hair wet and the hydrodynamics of falling upside down. Plus I’d’a’ thought Joe was more sensible than that.

Time for a new internet challenge, complete with musical accompaniment: The Lost Cord.

I’m afraid I have more faith in Murphy’s Law than quality control in “shock cords”. Plus, I’m afraid. :)

Very expressive fish!

If the opportunity arose, it’s something I might just have done. As it is, it’s not something I would go out of my way to do.

Pretty sure the most common reason for failure of the bungees used for bungee jumping is over use of the same bungee. They are only good for so many uses. The bungees used are quite expensive, so some operators will stretch the limits of their use as far as they can.

They could just use a dummy, Oh yeah, they did.

I don’t bungee jump for the same reason I stay off carnival rides. Anything that can be assembled in minutes is probably really, really dangerous.

“What could possibly go wrong?"