Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 26, 2010

YUP, that’s how it all happened.

Very concise summery, Wiley.

The worst that could happen? you will get bitten!

Joe & Danae and Kate’s mom, the early days!

So THAT’s how Discover Card got its name!

Eden will be foreclosed upon and you will be kicked out into the cruel world without a place to live while the devil collects unrealistic profits and lives in your garden.

I think I’ll have the mangoes instead.

Just Eat. :)

a subprime fruit? oh, yeah like most fruit at the supermarket.

“So what’s the worst that could happen?”

Foreclosure and eviction. (And it was such a prime piece of real estate too…)

Creepy… she kind of looks like Victoria. “Run Joe, run…”

that’s how i was run off my garden. subprime my a**!

Sneaky snake… lol

Radish, you are right, she does look like victoria…thanks for the curve ball Wiley.

@Joe Doty: Where in the strip does it say that the fruit is an apple? And if you say that it looks like one, then I’ll have to ask how you know what the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil looks like.

Of course, the problem wasn’t the fruit in the tree, it was the pair on the ground.

I (half-jokingly) resent that it’s the woman who says what she does. It’s been my experience that it’s the man who thinks that way! I’ve been a “fixed rate” woman all my life! Haha! P.S. And have absolutely no credit card debt!

Careful Eve, you could lose your shirt - metaphorically speaking.

Fer Lefer:

What’s a Chihuahua grade apple?

Barbaratoo: I have no credit card debt either or any other debt actually… it’s a wonderful feeling! Took me 14 years though to get out of its thumb though… :)

I too, think she bears a striking resemblance to Victoria.

does the snake go by the name Goldman-sachs?

Thank goodness for color. The B&W version doesn’t really show her hair at all.

@CA_QUERCUS

Poor snakes have been getting a bad rap ever since. Snakes are awesome animals and aren’t slimy at all. Feel your fingernail, that’s about how a snake feels. Cold-blooded is an outdated term, ectothermic is now correct.

Okay, zoology lesson over!

I always thought it was crummy that everyone blamed Eve for our downfall. She didn’t MAKE Adam eat the bleeep thing. Ah well, guess one shouldn’t gripe over the outcome of a fairy tale.

I love the snake’s expression. Great one, Wiley!

@Wiley, my quixote senses tell me that ObviousMan might have a comment soon

The same might be said about your strip.

The Bible cannot possibly be perfect. People are not perfect and they wrote the Bible.

(I will try not to bash men in particular, they did not know better at the time. I tried to restrain myself from mentioning that if many of the the stories in the Bible were told today, there would be a lot more people on medication.)

Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty said, about 9 hours ago

This is a funny Non Sequitur all right. No real connection with the bible story at all.

No apple in the Genesis story.

The word “apple” didn’t say anything in the Bible, two words God used to tell in the Bible was “forbidden fruit.” I think but not sure if I am right or not.

Usually the newer model is supposed to be improved also. In this case God went a step backward.

i’ll stick with tomatoes as the “forbidden fruit”, but then that puts eden somewhere in south america……….

Using the “apple” to depict the “forbidden fruit” first came about as a silly guess from the childish minds of the early religious hierarchy.

Poor apple.

Odd, we don’t see the bets the snake is taking on the side

Though I know it wasn’t necessarily an apple, Flip Wilson once said it wasn’t the apple in the tree that made Man sin, it was the pair on the ground.

grazer - You are so right. Most of the people translating the scrolls were almost illiterate. The translations were best guess and the monks/priests writing down the translations were copying someone else’s notes.

Great one Wiley. Super smirk on the snake.

“…so what’s the worst that can happen?” another candidate for famous last words… Good One Wiley!!!!!

This one is way, WAY too close to the truth!

I would agree with Mr Doty and add for Wiley’s benefit, that the Bible section in discussion that is attributed to Moses does not put the blame on the woman, but states she was deceived. It puts the blame squarely on man because he ate without deception and of his free will.

And It was eve that succumbed first, also she had a low credit rating…ergo no credit card balances.

joefish25: I can’t really congratulate you on the accuracy of your prediction, as it was a given he would be thumping away…

Great strip today (and every day), Wiley!

Just another banker at work.

And on the 8th day, the Lord said, “STOP ANALYZING CARTOONS!’

But feel free to question a belief.

Gotcha.

Since when is d@rn a swear word?

Belief’s should be questioned Siberman, how else could we learn and move forward? Besides, analyzing and questioning are two different things!

Arg! Wiley, you’ve stirred up such a rat’s nest that now I feel like I have to go back and review the Genesis story to confirm my belief that many of the commenters here are just pulling stuff out of their backsides. The best argument against the “truth” of the Bible is the Bible itself…

Anyone who purports to know what the proper context of the Bible is and feels the need to correct others can be considered a Bible thumper.

And yes, question belief. For it is through questioning beliefs that new knowledge is gained.

Ji2m - same can be said of Republicans, or any other political party in a system based on a short election cycle.

Re; the apple. In the middle ages miracle plays were presented in the church, The common one on Christmas Eve was Adam & Eve, the stage prop was a fir tree with apples on it because of preservation in winter. Hence the non-biblical apple and our modern Christmas tree. BTW the snakes name is Barney. Great strip.

vexatron 1984 said:

“Belief’s should be questioned Siberman, how else could we learn and move forward? Besides, analyzing and questioning are two different things!”

Feel free to question any belief you do or do not have . Just don’t take a stand against political analyzing and then support religious analyzing without expecting negative feedback.

“Foreclosure and eviction. (And it was such a prime piece of real estate too…)”

VERY GOOD, REYNARD61!!!