Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 04, 2018

He’s obviously there for one of you, so why not give it a try?

I never thought of Death being a sore loser.

The Grim Reaper, 2 kids beat him at limbo and made his life miserable for a long while.

This is NOT the time to bluff….

Go for it! What have you got to lose?

Just fold but ask him if he’d like to buy the next round of drinks.

This is what happens when you let him cut the cards.

So, HE can take it with him?

Since nobody said it …

No matter what cards he’s dealt, he’ll definitely have a killer hand.

Your three of a kind beat my two pairs (2 aces + 2 aces).

I thought death preferred chess?

http://legomenon.com/symbols-of-death-art-analysis-seventh-seal-meaning.html

Black aces and eights.

Wait a minute, I thought we were supposed to cheat Death, not the other way around. ;)

Eights and Aces – He’d be Wild about that hand.

Let me consult with Ingmar.

FYI: Straights are not allowed in stud poker unless agreed to in advance by the table.Maverick lost for not knowing this in an episode entitled, “According to Hoyle.”

Poker? I always thought Death’s game was chess (see Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film “The Seventh Seal”).

Death generally plays a pat hand and always takes the pot

I wonder if Death will be taxed for his winnings. It seems inevitable.

Go ahead! You-re immortal – you can bet your life on it!

Don’t fear the Reaper, call his bluff!

Where’s his sidekick, Chewbacca?

Coleridge says Death rolls the bones, too. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Death is playing with Life-in-Death, female:

The naked hulk alongside came,/ And the twain were casting dice;/ ‘The game is done! I’ve won! I’ve won!’/ Quoth she, and whistles thrice.

Just duck when he swings that thing!

Hey, what’s he gonna do, kill the messenger?!

One of my favorite metaphors is the idea that life is like, (OK, simile then!) playing a game of chess with death. All you can do is play the best you can and hope he doesn’t beat you in three moves! Even if you do the best you can, death will still win….In this cartoon, even if you play your cards right, death will still win somehow……..

You bet your soul!

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” Hunter S Thompson (Didn’t he kill himself by using a gun to the head?)

“The final reward of the dead – to die no more” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: death, Nietzsche

Any chance one of the other players will tell Death where the White House is?