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   Jocko84 said, 3 days ago

   Everyone’s writing, nobody’s reading. And free is free, right? The internet is killing professional organizations. And you can’t give away encyclopedia sets anymore …

   [I love these single panel Non Sequiturs. Keep ‘em coming!]

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   Radical-Knight said, 3 days ago

   This would be as plentiful as the guys selling newspapers or cleaning the windshields.

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   BC13 said, 2 days ago

   I don’t have a blog and I don’t want one…so no I don’t think so.

4. 

   grapfhics said, 2 days ago

   As Danae found out a Geek plot, to inherit the world.

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   Jocko84 said, 2 days ago

   Funny that it’s not cyber, with an alias PayPal account!
   We still think in terms of paper dollars, sidewalks and soap boxes …

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   ejcapulet said, 2 days ago

   Give the man $100!!!

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   Jon Sequitur said, 2 days ago

   I don’t have a blog and I don’t want one

   So here you are, posting … for … um, free.

   The guy in the strip, is he prostituting his silent dedication to his artistic purity of vision?

   —–
   ”Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.” - Robert Orben

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   Jon Sequitur said, 2 days ago

   Funny that it’s not cyber, with an alias PayPal account! We still think in terms of paper dollars, sidewalks and soap boxes

   I’ll give up my twentieth century when they peel it from my cold dead analog fingers.

   I had half my pinky cut off, so I count in base nine-and-a-half.

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   Jocko84 said, 2 days ago

   “I had half my pinky cut off, so I count in base nine-and-a-half.”

   So in your own way, you are digital. And “finger on, finger off” is the essence of binary code …

10. 

    Jon Sequitur said, 2 days ago

    Finger on, oops, finger half off, is definitely analog.

    Same as glass half full, glass half empty.

    Nice try, no cigar. I was around when they invented the transistor.

    Heck, I was around when they invented dirt.

    Heck, I helped fill out the patent applications.

    “Says here we have to write down what we’re going to use it for”

    “Um … … … mud puddles!!”

    It was an overnight success. We made millions.

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    Jocko84 said, 2 days ago

    You got a glass?

12. 

    Hugh B. Hayve said, 2 days ago

    I’ll throw a prediction out there: Once the internet stops being free and the advertisers and lawyers take it over, people will go back to the old ways of doing things.

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    Mitstan said, 2 days ago

    Hugh, quick question: do you remember the old ways of doing things? Do any of us? sigh

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    Gigantor said, 2 days ago

    I wish some people wouldn’t post their thoughts on comic strips (usually not including this one). They’ve obviously never heard that the best ways to kill a joke are to explain it or to tack on your own bad punchline afterward.

15. 

    sylbert said, 2 days ago

    Yup … it’s called “rock and stick”

16. 

    TimeWeaver said, 2 days ago

    Jokes are like frogs. If you dissect them, you see how they work… But they die from the experience.

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    pearlandpeach said, 2 days ago

    but some of the other punchlines are a hoot! keep typing’

    Only the Overboard folks have gone overboard with personal comments not related to the cartoon.

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    Jocko84 said, 2 days ago

    Comix are like any other text: they elicit comment and criticism and co-creativity. That’s how they work; that’s how they connect.

    To wish for someone to stymie their response seems to negate the purpose of a comment board. You may not personally enjoy the comments here, or agree with them, but to wish them away seems tantamount to suppression.

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    kbcds said, 2 days ago

    So, where is the sign off contest??

20. 

    the GhostPony said, 2 days ago

    I don’t blog, I write in a journal that just happens to be online and open to the public. Sort of an everyman’s time capsule.

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    Jocko84 said, 2 days ago

    kbcds: “So, where is the sign off contest??”

    Email to nonseqsignoff@amuniversal.com

    Subject line “Sandwich Board” or some such.

    Include name–phone–email–source you read

22. 

    kbcds said, 2 days ago

    Thanks, Jocko.

    Now, to come up with the punch line.

23. 

    Jocko84 said, 2 days ago

    Should be fun! It’s a great exercise in creativity.

24. 

    bmonk said, 2 days ago

    To those who don’t like comments or punchlines added to comics: so, why exactly are you reading these comments, and certainly why did you read down this far? It’s your choice…

25. 

    bmonk said, 2 days ago

    @Jon Sequitur, I prefer triadic numbers (base three, with +, 0, - digits) anyway…

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    Thinginthebasement said, 2 days ago

    I didn’t read this far, I just dropped to the bottom to put in my own inane comment…

27. 

    Joe Allen Doty said, 2 days ago

    There was a guy who was a regular on the Classmates dot com forums.

    He had a lot of different websites which he used to promote lies about himself.

    But, the real truth was that other people actually owned the websites and some were owned by “Church of Christ” churches (the no music kind).

    He knew how to design webpages and when he worked for an individual or a church, he would secretly create additional web pages which he hoped they didn’t find out about.

    While he claimed to be Church of Christ and friends with those chuches’ pastors, none those men even liked him and when contacted, they said so.

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    Jon Sequitur said, 2 days ago

    I don’t blog, I write in a journal that just happens to be online and open to the public. Sort of an everyman’s time capsule.

    You read my mind, sir or ma’am! I just wish some people would ask my permission before reading my comments.

    “I’ll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours..” - Bob Dylan said that.

    “Bob Dylan said that.” - I said that.

    “I said that.” - Bob Dylan and I both said that.

    old very rare film – Greenwich Village, early 60s, the salad days

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpJ0A09djm0

    @Jon Sequitur, I prefer triadic numbers (base three, with +, 0, - digits) anyway

    Take one: that must explain why you spell my name with a punct-e-ation mark.

    Take two: you must have really weird lookin’ fingers.

    Cheers,
    At Jon

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    Jon Sequitur said, 2 days ago

    I wish Some People wouldn’t post their thoughts on comic strips They’ve obviously never heard that the best ways to kill a joke

    I hear Wiley is working up a new concept, about a family of pot heads. Called Ma and Pa Kettle. And here’s the cool part: they’re Black

    I’m sure we’ll find a message in there somewhere

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    Burgundy2 said, 2 days ago

    Pearlandpeach said: Only the Overboard folks have gone overboard with personal comments not related to the cartoon.

    Apparently, you haven’t dropped in on Pibgorn…

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    JohnHerbison said, 2 days ago

    Do you know why members of the church of Christ don’t make love standing up?

    They are afraid someone would think they are dancing.

32. 

    JohnHerbison said, 2 days ago

    Do you know why members of the church of Christ don’t make love standing up?

    They are afraid someone would think they are dancing.

33. 

    bmonk said, 2 days ago

    No, Jon, I just use three positions (against a surface) for +0-…

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 2 days ago

    Oh, the no musical instruments in worship services Church of Christ folks aren’t against dancing. The people with this believe try to claim they are NOT a denomination. But, they have colleges and universities which teach their doctrines.

    When I was teaching NE Missouri, the school district superintendent’s daughter attended a C of C college in Arkansas and she was in the choral group.

    Well, the college’s choral group and its orchestra came one day to give a day time concert for the Jr.-Sr. high and a night concert where admission was charged.

    I found it hypocritical for them to play church songs (no vocals) with their instruments during the 1st half of the program and then the Chorus sang hymns and gospel songs with the orchestra playing, too for the 2nd half of it.

    In my opinion, if it’s a sin to play musical instruments in church, it should be a sin to play them elsewhere, especially if the music is gospel songs and hymns.

    There are other Churches of Christ which have music in their churches.

    It is other churches that are against dancing.

35. 

    BrandaStarr said, 2 days ago

    Jon - Nothing like vintage Dylan to slap you back to your senses. Thanks!

36. 

    Jon Sequitur said, 2 days ago

    Oh, the no musical instruments in worship services Church of Christ folks aren’t against dancing. The people with this belie–

    Make it stop!!!

    Jesus H. Foxtrotting Christ on a dance floor, will someone please take Joe Allen’s gocomics account out and shoot it!

    Or me. I don’t much care which any longer.

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    Jon Sequitur said, 2 days ago

    ”Nothing like vintage Dylan
    To slap you back to your senses”
    – BrandaStarr said that

    I called up the operator of time
    Just to hear a voice of some kind.
    When you hear the beep
    It’ll be three o’clock
    She said that for over an hour
    An’ I hung up

    Turned on my player
    It was rock a day Johnny singin
    Tell your ma tell your pa
    Our love’s a gonna grow
    Ooh wah
    Ooh wah

38. 

    OldHipster said, 2 days ago

    Jon - I’m with YOU!

    Take that account out and string it up on the hangin’ tree!

    Anybody heard me?

39. 

    Jocko84 said, 2 days ago

    Flag it, don’t tag it.

    Persecution made the Church strong.

    “Shut up!” he explained is amusing in a Ring Lardner story, but is inappropriate on a public comment board.

    Just ignore opinions you don’t agree with. To enter into a dialogue is to validate.

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    Gigantor said, 1 day ago

    but some of the other punchlines are a hoot! keep typing’

    And an awful lot of them are just plain lame. There’s a reason the artist is paid for his work and they’re not.

    Comix are like any other text: they elicit comment and criticism and co-creativity. That’s how they work; that’s how they connect.

    Uh, no. Comic strips are a work of the artist. They always have been, for a great many decades before the Internet came along and let everybody and his brother think they could do better. Tell me this: If you go to a stand-up comedy club, would you like it if a heckler decides to tack on a superfluous, bad punchline to every joke?

    A good use of the comments section would be to ask questions and give feedback, not to try to make yourself look clever.

    I hear Wiley is working up a new concept, about a family of pot heads. Called Ma and Pa Kettle. And here’s the cool part: they’re Black. I’m sure we’ll find a message in there somewhere

    I’m sorry, did I miss something and accidentally explain a joke? Boy, I wish I had nothing to do but sit around all day commenting on a comics strip.

    “Shut up!” he explained is amusing in a Ring Lardner story, but is inappropriate on a public comment board.

    Where did I tell somebody to shut up? I just wrote a wish that some people might one day realize they’re not funny, a wish probably never to be fulfilled. Seems like a couple of you took this to be a personal attack. Nothing I can do about your perceptions of yourself. Good luck having the message removed.