Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 22, 2011
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Transcript:
B.E. Before Eve-when Eden was an all-guys paradise. Rolf: *Urp* Nice slice, my man! Whoa...hold up there! Adam: *urp* What is it, dude? Rolf: A dire, cryptically ominous warning sign of impending doom... It says if you go out there, it'll be the end of life as we know it...a fate worse then death, bringing about an agonizing, mind-numbing life of drudgery beyond imagination! Adam: Wait...it says all that on one sign? Rolf: Yeah...see for yourself. Adam: *Gasp* You're right! Rolf: It also says you get a two-stroke penalty for not playing the ball. "Paradise Exit Personal responsibility beyond this point"
Donald Benson Premium Member almost 13 years ago
This is guys’ paradise. They’ve already established that they have televised sports.
Proginoskes almost 13 years ago
@gmartin997: It isn’t. This is a running gag of the cartoonist.
Hugh B. Hayve almost 13 years ago
One word: “mulligan”.
ImaginaryFriend almost 13 years ago
Darkforce – it is the same fantasy world for the Democrats too.
DesultoryPhillipic almost 13 years ago
I have to agree with plus4. The democrats want somebody else to pay for everything and also create “rights” where none exist.
ifelden almost 13 years ago
i thought he’d was gonna put a silouette of a bride and groom
lewisbower almost 13 years ago
If they have invented duct tape in B.E., Eve would not be totally unwanted (dishes, trash, and change the channel). Only problem, no mother-in-law. But what if she served forbidden fruit to my best friend? Everyone knows her disobedience to male authority.Great Rapture to those of you who didn’t make it. Better luck next time.
cleokaya almost 13 years ago
We are faced with the Eve of change. From this moment on the words for each coming day are “Yes dear, whatever you say!”
Wiley creator almost 13 years ago
Please, folks…leave your politics out of this.
Wiley creator almost 13 years ago
This cartoon has absolutely nothing to do with politics.
Lawrence Stetz Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Can I still make fun of danae?
pearlandpeach almost 13 years ago
I love the running “guys only” strips. excellent!
Defective Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Asking people to remove politics from anything is like asking the church to remove religion from itself. Everything people do is politically motivated even if they don’t realize it and know nothing about it.
Habogee almost 13 years ago
Some people, overdosed on Cable News Channels, see politics in everything. Sad, but true.
aerwalt almost 13 years ago
I agree with Wiley.
puddleglum1066 almost 13 years ago
The reference to “personal responsibility” strikes me as more theological than political. Go back and read the story in Genesis: Adam (and Eve) are expelled from paradise because they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Now knowing what they were supposed to do (and not do), and (being human) being unable to live up to that standard of personal responsibility, they could no longer be in the presence of the perfectly holy God. Which fits perfectly with the sign. No politics required, and a nice gag.
Wiley creator almost 13 years ago
No, this cartoon has absolutely nothing to do with politics and there’s twisting of words in the strip that make it so.
Dtroutma almost 13 years ago
At least if you always hook or slice, you don’t have to yell “FORE” as often, well, unless you’re headed for the wrong green or fairway— which seems to be where the “guy thing” has gone for a long time. “Personal Responsibility” also means the “big tough guys” don’t hit from the ladies’ tee, or on them.
Defective Premium Member almost 13 years ago
You know why cave men learned to talk? It wasn’t for sex. They could do fine there with no talking at all. They learned to talk so they could call their leaders idiots for doing everything wrong, if they didn’t like him. Then the other guys, who liked the leaders, learned to talk to call THOSE guys idiots for calling their beloved leader idiots. Tribal wars had everything to do with politics. Land and resources. What are we STILL fighting about today? It’s impossible to separate politics from life.
converses almost 13 years ago
To everyone who has tried to turn this strip into a political one, when even Wiley himself has said that it’s NOT, you all should be glad Wiley doesn’t have your comments removed. Sometimes a cartoonist just wants to put a FUN or interesting strip out there for the public to see.
reynard61 almost 13 years ago
@ mendojoe: That may have been true pre-Tea Party, but now it’s “WE’VE GOT OURS — AND WE WANT YOURS TOO!”
Ernest Lemmingway almost 13 years ago
As I keep saying, IT’S A CARTOON! Don’t read anything into it beyond what is presented. Sheesh, all these political commentors need a good dose of Freud: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
Whoa! Personal responsibility? You mean like stop throwing my garbage around? Eat right? Admit I was wrong!? Certainly avoiding all that is worth two strokes.
Joseph Krois almost 13 years ago
As this strip is about golf my first response is WGAF? Nice 2 have Wiley back in the convo tho. And who is this dog anyway? NOT man’s best friend at this point, to say the least. More of a nagging co-habitant without all that opposite sex attraction getting in the way, hopefully… And now…
Golf’s not a sport…It’s the death of hope…Though it strives to purport….It’s the dominion of dope…So that lies would supply…What’s essential to score…It’s clear to the eye…That the calling of fore…Is a scream for all there…That the ball is in flight…And that hiding one’s head…Could have saved Tiger that night…
vldazzle almost 13 years ago
Love it, Wiley-but also agree with Plus4.
philboydjr almost 13 years ago
Wiley, go back and read Walt Kelly some more.
wittyvegan almost 13 years ago
Taking personal responsibility? That has be the most anti-american demand he could have made.