Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 30, 2015

Wiley is really getting even with the posters who accused him of sermonizing about vegetarianism…

Heck,I’d read it for the title alone!

Grade it as a creative writing submission.

Prepare Now For An Exciting Career In

Fiction!

And you’d be right, Danae.

Sounds like an awesome read to me!

Would work if the rest of the title was … on the planet Zircon55.

I saw a man eating elephant once…it was too big for him to finish!

Request: A Sunday strip depicting just how “sermonizing” got its negative connotation.

She should make her read it – or better yet, get Micheal Moore to make a movie. I’m sure it will have computer models and all sorts of ‘consensus’ that will prove reality wrong.

That’s how Al and gang would do it.

Hey, I saw that on SyFy channel…..

Off the topic, anyone have a Non Sequitur strip of the Pope parting the Red Sea?

The teacher doesn’t support diversity of facts.

Actually Danae was just taking advantage of a little writer’s license. Besides it creates a little curiosity for the reader; even a rather skeptical teacher. Without her student, the day may just be monotonous.

Sounds like the plot of a SyFy movie

Everybody’s preachin’, but she ain’t listenin’.

Teacher split an infinitive! Oh, the shame! Oh, the horror! I don’t believe I can read NS again, at least until tomorrow.

From: http://www.livescience.com/4180-sahara-desert-lush-populated.html

In the more southern Sudanese Sahara, lush vegetation, hearty trees, and permanent freshwater lakes persisted over millennia. There were even large rivers, such as the Wadi Howar, once the largest tributary to the Nile from the Sahara.

Wildlife included very demanding species such as elephants,

How dare you impose reality on my delusions!

Hey, if Danae can write a report without bothering to research the subject, the teacher can give the report a grade without bothering to read it.

what’s that old Groucho line? I saw an elephant in my pajamas, what he was doing in my pajamas, I have no idea.

In Danae’s defense, she HAS traveled through time. Maybe Jeffrey landed her in a time when the Sahara was a swamp, filled with carnivorous ancestors of today’s herbivore elephants…

Not being one to miss an opportunity to have the last word, I added a reply to your comment on yesterday’s Non Sequitur.

Those elephants are a GMO that escaped and went feral. Wait until they hook up with the Jurassic gang. That would be a tale to hear.

I’m of two minds about it…..The ability to speak and write English well must be cherished, and I pride myself doing it the best I can…But I discovered the concept of “Artistic License” in fourth grade. Me: " Um….Let me get this straight…There are very strict rules about how to write proper English, but, then, if I say I’m a writer, I can write anything I want, anyway I want to?"….Talk about a loop hole…

Danae’s paper will be entertaining reading in the teachers’ lounge.

It sounds like it would make a good musical.

Are those Man-eating Elephants of the Sahara Swamp any relation to the Car-Flattening Elephants of the Thailand Desert?

Danae’s been hanging out with Calvin!!!

She finally managed to get it completely wrong — congrats, Danae!!

Hey, if Puccini can write an opera set in the desert outside New Orleans, why shouldn’t Danae write about the Sahara Swamp?