Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

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wndrwrthg said, 2 months ago

Beware the Blue Meanies and Apple Bonkers.
somebodyshort said, 2 months ago

Wait until she finds out about the “one eyed, one horned purple people eater”
yyyguy said, 2 months ago

or guitarzan!
Edcole1961 said, 2 months ago

Unfortunately, I’m too tired right now to come up with something really witty. It’s been a hard day’s night.
John Reiher, Jr said, 2 months ago

Heck, wait until Lucy hears “Lucy in the sky, with diamonds!”

“Picture yourself, on a horse by a river,
with magazine scenes, and martian made skies!
Your father calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with Kalashnikov eyes.”
Jackknife15 said, 2 months ago

Actually, I’d like to be under the sea, in an octopuses garden, in the shade.
Carmy said, 2 months ago

What would you do if I sang out of tune? Aaargh!
BC13 said, 2 months ago

I mentioned “Yellow Submarine” Yesterday. It is the worst Beatles song and one of the stupidest songs in history. I’d go with “Mellow Yellow” by Donovan.

Too bad they weren’t Stones fans. I’m sure Danae would get a kick out of “Paint it Black”
randayn said, 2 months ago

Let’s not disagree. I’m sure we can work it out.

And if we can’t, then just let it be.
BC13 said, 2 months ago

Well I came across a child of God, he was walking along the road
And I asked him tell where are you going, this he told me:
Well, I’m going down to Yasgur’s farm, going to join in a rock and roll band.
Got to get back to the land, set my soul free.
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Well, then can I walk beside you? I have come to lose the smog.
And I feel like I’m a cog in something turning.
And maybe it’s the time of year, yes, and maybe it’s the time of man.
And I don’t know who I am but life is for learning.
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

By the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong,
And everywhere there was song and celebration.
And I dreamed I saw the bombers jet planes riding shotgun in the sky,
Turning into butterflies above our nation.

We are stardust, we are golden, we caught in the devil’s bargain,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Jon Sequitur said, 2 months ago

Carmy asks, plaintively, if not very melodiously, “What would you do if I sang out of tune?”

Well, Carmy luv, first I’d pop round the corner to the earplug shoppe. Then I’d fix a hole where the rain gets in and stops my mind from wandering where it will go. If that didn’t work, I’d stop taking my ADD meds.

And BC13 offers this: I’m sure Danae would get a kick out of “Paint it Black”

Oh, I think that might be a litte too musically unsubtle for her taste, even though “I want to see you paint it…” would be exactly her style – Lucy would wind up doing all the painting a la Tom Sawyer. Perhaps The Byrds “Eight Miles High”… stranger than known and all that … a very eerie song, like our heroine.

Edcole1961 adds with a deep sigh, “Unfortunately, I’m too tired right now to come up with something really witty. It’s been a hard day’s night.”

Sorry to hear that. Can we HELP! in any way?
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Warning: incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige.
Jon Sequitur said, 2 months ago

WaitingMan and Jack75287:

I left replies to your comments on yesterdays strip (ambiguity in absolute truth).
johnnydoc5 said, 2 months ago

wndrwrthg: and the Snapping Turks, and the Dreadful Flying Glove!
BinaryWiener said, 2 months ago

I’m still chuckling over Danae’s pronouncement of “Lennonist theory” :-D
Leonardeuler said, 2 months ago

“Suddenly life seems so stupidly clear.”

Sure, like “Dust in the wind” on a “Lazy sunday afternoon”.
baslim_the_begger said, 2 months ago

Best keep Danae away from any silver hammers!
When I’m 64, I will still be following a day in the life of my favorite comic strip characters, who seem to be getting better…

But don’t tell her about “White Rabbit”!
Ronshua said, 2 months ago

Danae don’t let it be said of you , “She come in through the bathroom window”. Not even with your silver spoon protection .
Richard said, 2 months ago

She could use a bowl of “screaming yellow zonkers”.
shadowwriter said, 2 months ago

flying purple people eater, oh and kalashnikov is an ak or ka 47 and 57
plus4 said, 2 months ago

What’s funniest to me about this is (although I don’t know if it’s something Wiley actually has in mind) is that, in the ’60s, there were hippies & stoners who were really looking for some kind of “answers to life” in Beatles records!
canadaeh said, 2 months ago

wait till she starts finding backward clues that paul is dead.
Avolunteer said, 2 months ago

Astro-lung…..
thepeoplesmushroom said, 2 months ago

John Reiher, Jr - not even close, but funny antway.
Anthony said, 2 months ago

What I find funniest is that her example of “Lennonist theory” is a song sung by Ringo.
Lurah said, 2 months ago

Perfect!
Lewreader said, 2 months ago

Yellow Submarine was written because of a contract that said the Beatles would make a third movie. They got out of it with a cartoon they didn’t even do the voices for.
grazer said, 2 months ago

Funny how yesterday’s wildest songs are totally tame when compared to today’s gang-banging (c)rap.
Joe Minotaur said, 2 months ago

I can’t comment today. I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in and stops my mind from wandering.
Nick V said, 2 months ago

SHE THINKS THE BEATLES ARE LITERAL? Whoa… trippy.
spiwsu said, 2 months ago

The hills are alive,
With the sound of meanies…
dianecliff said, 2 months ago

It’s getting better all the time”…..
yyyguy said, 2 months ago

can’t get no worse!
Chikuku said, 2 months ago

I have to admit it’s getting better - getting So Much Better all the time!
Tigger said, 2 months ago

Inagine: http://www.lyrics007.com/John%20Lennon%20Lyrics/Imagine%20Lyrics.html
kfaatz925 said, 2 months ago

Loving the story arc this week. “Strawberry flavored malt liquor.” Cheers!
Jmarkoff said, 2 months ago

What about the part about Flo and Captain Eddie getting freaky? That cut away too soon. I hope we get back to that.
bmonk said, 2 months ago

One two three four
Can I have a little more?
Five six seven eight nine ten
I love you!

A B C D
Can I bring a friend to tea?
E F G H I J
I love you!

Sounds a pretty good philosophy of life to me…
openminded said, 2 months ago

Comments are funnier than usual today.
And NO POLITICS!!! Wheee
LVJeff said, 2 months ago

How can Yellow Submarine be one of their worst songs? It was always ever meant to be just an easy-to-sing children’s song.
Ushindi said, 2 months ago

BC13…I sure wish you would stop that - I just had to listen to the Joni Mitchell version and then the CSN&Y next. I have the two-disc Woodstock DVD set and I suppose I’ll have to get it out tonight and watch it again, and it’s your fault. Oh well, at least it has gratuitous nudity so that helps….
Joe Allen Doty said, 2 months ago

The song, “The Purple People Eater,” came out in 1958 and that was several years before the Beatles came to the USA. It was written and sung by Sheb Wooley. Wooley had an alter-ego as a drunken song writer and singer, Ben Colder.

Wooley was also an actor in the “Rawhide” TV series.
halavana said, 2 months ago

Winnie the Pooh doesn’t know what to do,
Got a honey jar stuck on his nose.
He came to me asking help and advice,
And from there no one knows where he goes…
Trebor39 said, 2 months ago

I wish Mary Travers was still here to sing for us.
AKHenderson said, 2 months ago

I wonder what “goo goo g’joob” means? Maybe Lars knows.

“I Am The Walrus” isn’t too much stranger than Cap’n Eddie’s adventures.
Ira Nayman said, 2 months ago

Anybody here hear that somebody is planning to remake The Yellow Submarine? So pointless. So Hollywood.

PS: I think it’s kaleidoscope eyes, not Kalashnikov (although that’s interesting in its own way, too…).
ChukLitl said, 2 months ago

♫Life goes on within you & without you♫
MatureCanadian said, 2 months ago

Yes, definitely Kaleidoscope eyes. I was a goonie, so my remember-er works pretty well.
mizcraig said, 2 months ago

He MEANT Kalishnikov eyes. It’s a take-off, doncha know.
Reynard61 said, 2 months ago

BinaryWiener said: “I’m still chuckling over Danae’s pronouncement of ‘Lennonist theory’ :-D”

I’ve always been partial to Marx (as in Groucho) myself…
NoBrandName said, 2 months ago

Avast, I was thrown by the Kalashnikov eyes too, seein’ as how I knew it was bein’ kaleidoscope. Then I realized what he did there, and it are quite cromulent. Arrgh, an’ I was lookin’ forward to a plank walkin’!