Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

Non Sequitur

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  1. win

    win said, 4 months ago

    Not! Completely missed North America!

  2. mjm313

    mjm313 said, 4 months ago

    Pointed word play about northern India would place him in the Punjab.

  3. Superfrog

    Superfrog said, 4 months ago

    ’e knew it.

  4. Linguist

    Linguist said, 4 months ago

    Nanook of the North meets Nudnick of the South !

  5. Varnes

    Varnes said, 4 months ago

    Hey, one of those French explorers back in the 1600’ hundreds, when he got to Lake Michigan,dressed up in Chinese clothes, because….He thought China was just on the other side…Somebody help me out here, I’ve got a mental block, I don’t think is was La Salle….

  6. Richard S. Russell

    Richard S. Russell said, 4 months ago

    @Varnes

    Nicolet, or possibly his brother Nickelby. (Apologies to Peter Berryman, who first punned that in Wisconsin: The Genesis.)

  7. Alexikakos

    Alexikakos said, 4 months ago

    @Varnes

    It’s Jacques Cartier you’re thinking of.


    Here’s an excerpt from the Wikipedia article about him.

    The expedition could proceed no further, as the river was blocked by rapids. So certain was Cartier that the river was the Northwest Passage and that the rapids were all that was preventing him from sailing to China, that the rapids and the town that eventually grew up near them came to be named after the French word for China, La Chine: the Lachine Rapids and the town of Lachine, Quebec.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier

  8. bluskies

    bluskies said, 4 months ago

    @Superfrog

    great!

  9. Dogsniff

    Dogsniff said, 4 months ago

    Oh, Canada, eh?

  10. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

    The Norse had been there for 450 years before they had to leave.

  11. Bruno Zeigerts

    Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago

    I thought Bugs Bunny discovered America … but let Columbus have the credit.
    H’mmm, would there have been a Bugs Bunny, Ohio?

  12. Alexikakos

    Alexikakos said, 4 months ago

    I thought of Stan Freberg’s “Columbus” series, and decided that instead of reposting the URL for thatl I’d post the URL for this one:
    .
    Stan Freberg “Little Blue Riding Hood”
    .
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWunj7Yw3PQ
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    3 minutes 29 seconds
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    I know it doesn’t fit. Enjoy it anyway.

  13. Amar7605

    Amar7605 said, 4 months ago

    Considering how many Punjabi Indians reside in Canada, I could see Columbus saying this.

  14. Varnes

    Varnes said, 4 months ago

    Alexikakos, thanks. Tough one to Google….

  15. Varnes

    Varnes said, 4 months ago

    Dogsmith, “Oh, Canada, eh?”, eh?

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