Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

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LordDogmore said, 5 months ago

In oklahoma we say that Spring isn’t official, until we’ve had our first tornado, but then again last year it was on Feb 10, so well nevermind.
Josh 1360 said, 5 months ago

A friend who lived in New England told me that Winter doesn’t really end until the last snow has melted.
cdward said, 5 months ago

^re: tornados. I was visiting my parents in Illinois last Christmas, and we had tornados on December 26.
Varnes said, 5 months ago

Tornados suck…
Varnes said, 5 months ago

Or is it like tomatoes, with an e?
LuvH8 said, 5 months ago

Okay this is still a bit obscure to me. But I am fairly sure this occasion calls for:

Beer!

(Please drink responsibly, and use a designated typer.)
Colt9033 said, 5 months ago

I’m from New England, I’ve never head of truck day being the celibration of ending of Winter….
ronaldmundy said, 5 months ago

did you mean celebration, colt?
luvh8…don’t know if we need less beer or more beer.
i’ll go with more beer and get a designated typist.
Dogsniff said, 5 months ago

Wow you guys above me get up early.
jsprat said, 5 months ago

‘till the last snow melts!!??! June? I’m just glad today has 2 min 46 sec more daylight then yesterday! The days are getting longer. Spring.
Tanya said, 5 months ago

Wouldn’t anyone love to be in Vancouver right now? High of 7 celsius today (44 fahrenheit), and 9 (48) tomorrow… It’s -16 (3) here in Ottawa this morning… Ugh… Spring can’t come fast enough for me…
Wiley said, 5 months ago

@Colt9033 -

You do know this is a cartoon, right?
puddleglum1066 said, 5 months ago

Tanya: see this one:
http://cagle.msnbc.com/working/100211/stahler.jpg

The Vancouver Olympics are starting to sound a lot like the Calgary Olympics of some years back, when they had problems with dust blowing over the ski runs. I think temperatures made it up to something like 60 F that year… while we in Chicago were having cold and snow (just like this year)…
jackmatt said, 5 months ago

Old joke common to cold country, but there’s a place I frequent in Wyoming where they say they have only two seasons - winter and the 4th of July.
Grog said, 5 months ago

I knew a guy in Edmonton who started wearing shorts on the 1 day of April and didn’t stop until November 1 - no mater what the weather was like.

For me the spring kick-off as I liked to call began with the home opener of the Expos season (when they were in Montreal) - no matter what the weather was like.
charlesconnard said, 5 months ago

i read non sequitur every day and right now it reminds me of ohio
MRMcDermott said, 5 months ago

Sounded to me like the tradition of hauling an old junker truck out to the middle of a frozen lake, and marking the time it falls through the ice as the first day of spring. There’s usually a betting pool to pick the day that happens. Or was it all just made up by Garrison Keillor?
skipping said, 5 months ago

Non Sequitur has become my favorite! By the way, I’m in Oklahoma and I’ve been saying it’s spring for the last two weeks. I agree with Capt Eddie….it’s a state of mind.
Ji2m said, 5 months ago

Hey, Truck you all!!
wilburgarrod said, 5 months ago

@charlesconna-I Look out the window… almost 2 ft. of snow on the ground and spring is right around the corner.
g6793 said, 5 months ago

jackmatt: I’m from Montana, and the joke here goes we have 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction! I wish I could send some of our snow to Vancouver! :)
Badgerbanshee said, 5 months ago

We sort of have “Truck Day” here in Milwaukee as well. Every year, the local paper and TV stations run photos and stories on the Brewers packing up equipment and heading for spring training. During bad years, we used to kind of hope maybe they’d STAY in Arizona.
Wiley said, 5 months ago

For the edification of those who don’t understand…

http://www.boston.com/sports/

Click on the item of “Truck Day” in the headlines section on the right side of the page.
Garey Mckee said, 5 months ago

Wiley there’s about 50 inches of snow piled everywhere here in Philadelphia. If the hope of spring is maintained by steadfastedly holding onto Truck Day then I’m all for it!
Bender_Sastre said, 5 months ago

It ain’t spring in Utah until I can put my plants outside without fear of it snowing, which can be as late as mid April.
palos said, 5 months ago

Wiley – Interesting that you use the word “cartoon” rather than a “comic strip”. I associate cartoons with animation, though the dictionary offers a “comic strip” as another definition. Is “cartoon” used in the trade?
somebodyshort said, 5 months ago

Thanks for the link Wiley. They should hold a contest ( hint hint ) for the right to ride shotgun in the rig and some passes to spring training.

LuvH8 It’s still early here, but I’ve craked a cold one in your honour. Sorry I don’t have a Disignated Typist, just fat fingers.
Nelly55 said, 5 months ago

fun!

Truck Day!

here in California we just wait for the sun to stay out for more than 2 weeks and then declare winter over…………even in December

;)
Wiley said, 5 months ago

@ palos-

“Comic strip” is the term for one particular area in the artform of cartooning. An individual edition of a comic strip is a cartoon.

Here’s a link to the National Cartoonists Society web page for the upcoming Reuben Awards division categories.

http://www.reuben.org/news/

As you can see, there’s a wide variety of disciplines under the umbrella of cartooning.
GuntotingLiberal said, 5 months ago

Here in mother soviet canuckistan, winter doesn’t end, the winter ends YOU.

Seriously. You think I might get a head start on spring if I break out the hair dryer and the extention cord?
MrDichotomies said, 5 months ago

Here in the Colorado Rockies, spring begins the day after the ski lifts shut down, which will be April 12 this year. Coincidentally, the same day I will get on a plane to Kauai to avoid 2 weeks of mud season (a.k.a. “Spring”).
somebodyshort said, 5 months ago

who ever came up with the term canuckistan, I keep using it too. everybody going to watch the opening ceremony in lotusland? here in the banana belt it’s still cold, just had a deer look in my window.
joefish25 said, 5 months ago

wiley, as usual, another funny cartoon….

thank you
thebird55 said, 5 months ago

Listen carefully. You can hear people in Hawaii laughing at us.
johndh123 said, 5 months ago

Josh
I am from Portland, Maine and remember snow (in the shade) on the ground in the first part of June.
Then again, that was one year only. ;)
Varnes said, 5 months ago

In Da U P they claim to have 10 months of winter and two months of bad sledding…
whitecarabao said, 5 months ago

Wiley knows New England.

Around Bahston the restaurants stop serving iced tea on the day after Labor Day because it’s “winter” (even if it’s 85 F outside), and they stop serving hot apple cider the day after Memorial Day because it’s “summer”.

Poor Vancouver! When you want cold and snow, it ain’t there. This year it looks like the Winter Olympics should have been at Baltimore.
Amy Yanni said, 5 months ago

WIley, you have made my little corner of Red Sox Nation out here on the cold, windy plains very happy today. I love Truck Day! Happy Spring! I’ve tickets to some spring training games in March; can’t wait.

Hope you have something grand for Marathon Monday. I manage to qualifiy every year and go back to run, see the Sawx, and gorge on whole bellied clams!

grins,
A
grazer said, 5 months ago

Yes, I’m laughing at all this from Kauai, Hawaii….where I’m still thawing out after being born and raised in a ND snowbank.
LuvH8 said, 5 months ago

Wiley thank you for the links. I didn’t know what Truck Day was and just thought they looked like they needed to celebrate.
I’ll look at the one on cartooning soon. I am interested in learning more about it (not an aspiring cartoonist, my 3 year old niece draws better than me).

Oh, it was about 3am in the morning here when I suggested beer. I’m glad it is appropriate to the occasion if perhaps a little early in the day.

BTW - Is now a good time to mention that I think beer is yucky?
(runs quickly off to another comment section)
Mythreesons said, 5 months ago

I’m in Oklahoma, too, along with JAD, Lordgdogmore, and Skipping. Maybe we should all meet in OKC and get to know each other. The last couple of days have been really cold with no old snow melting at all, but today will be better-40s. Lived here all my life and have never seen or been near a tornado. Even though my jonquils are above ground, Spring has NOT arrived. No one ever reads my posts because I read comics around noon when housework/chores are all done.
freeholder1 said, 5 months ago

Note: Sports columnist said she had green graas in her lawn in Bahston yesterday on “round the horn.” Meanwhile, my cat keeps complaining that the snow is too cold for his outside adventures and demanding I drag out the lawn furniture. The neighbor’s cat has it gigged, walking in my bootprints after i clear the walks. Luv: If you had as much beer as you preach, the running wouldn’t have to do with comments sections.
jaiel said, 5 months ago

Happy truck Day to all the red sox nations!
somebodyshort said, 5 months ago

@ mythreesons I go back and read the day before, so your posts do get read.

LuvH8 Any time is beer time, I just put mine out the back door for a couple of minutes and it’s great. I’m not a great fan of beer, but any beer is better than no beer
Bany39 said, 5 months ago

Hey Happy Truck Day for all baseball. Yesterday was truck day for the Brewers. We will join them is a couple weeks
POPPA1956 said, 5 months ago

Here in western Oregon, Spring is when the rain gets a little warmer. Forget global warming, I want some “global-wringing-out-and-hanging-in-the-sun-to-dry.”
bmonk said, 5 months ago

@grazer, perhaps you remember the seasons in Dakota then: sometimes, if we are lucky, spring falls on a weekend.
LuvH8 said, 5 months ago

freeholder1 and somebodyshort - I actually prefer rootbeer but on special occasions I will drink it from a bottle so I can pretend to be an adult.

POPPA1956 - I know how you feel, I keep having the words:
Rain, rain go away. Come again some other day. — stuck in my head.
LuvH8 said, 5 months ago

Somebody, I think rac0308 (sorry if I got that wrong), said the best way to get a male’s attention was to say beer. Right now it’s just still funny to me. Thank you for that information rac0308 or whoever it was.
treered said, 5 months ago

someone’s take on Truck Day:

http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/gasper/2010/02/nothing_moving.html

interesting… I think I’ll wait for the pitchers and catchers to report…. PUT ME IN COACH!

and another thing, one of the first things to come to mind when reading this was the running of the bulls in Cicely, AK, re tv Northern Exposure :) .