Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 25, 2021

Why is Penn Jillette their waiter?

Thanksgiving is turkey day, so enjoy.

Was this a Frank Luntz focus group? They’re pretty adept at coming up with innocuous names for awful things and scary names for good ideas.

Camel: A horse designed by committee.

In the spirit of the focus group review, they will be paying with monopoly money

Focus group? Doesn’t he mean Can’t-Focus-Anymore group?

The food channel had a series of chefs talking about the best dish they’d ever eaten. One of them was a smoked turkey leg treated with an Asian style barbecue sauce.

The committee certainly had that bit between the teeth, din’ they?!?

looks more like turkey drum sticks. HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Wiley, others may not respect your art, but I do. look forward to it every day

Best to all from our home and our hearts

and it doubles for a club, for banging over the head those “whiny little people” (who actually DO the work)

if they complain that their lunchroom has rats, a leaky roof

Committees of twenty

Deliberate plenty.

Committees of ten

Act now and then.

Committees of one

Get things done.

A committee is not a focus group. It is a blame group. It is only, and always, a means for an executive to spread out blame if something goes wrong. I avoid using one, or being a member of one, like the plague.

If absolutely necessary to be on one (like participating in some activity in a beneficent organization) I give my opinion when asked and then shut up. I refuse to argue merits if my presentation of my opinion was not clear enough to make its benefits obvious.

It amazes me how often other members of such committees run all around Robin Hood’s barn to find themselves right back where my opinion went to start with. Maybe that is because I start from facts (what is), rather than wishful thinking, and go from there toward a definable and tangible goal. And if the others in the group wander off in their thoughts, I just let them go.

Mr. Miller, thank you for all the good belly laughs, thoughtful pauses for reflection, and opportunities to consider the absurdities of this event we call ‘life’ with which you have blessed us over the years. May your holiday be a happy one.

Because Lobsters are sentient beings as determined by the Brits and “Will Now Receive Welfare Protection”. But not chickens??

My one experience of focus group participation was for Ford’s then upcoming 1974 Mustang (II), that “cheaply-engineered effort of a complacent American auto industry on the cusp of getting its ass kicked by the Japanese …. a boring car if ever there was one.”

Focus Group? Wasn’t that a song by Hocus Pocus Group?

Or was Hocus Pocus Group a song by Focus Group? I always get that mixed up. (He said, tongue firmly in cheek.)

As always, a good strip.

However, I was really hoping to hear from Lenny, the Pilgrim psychic.

I’m thankful for the laughs & ideas from Wiley. But especially Wiley Bears!

Now the president will have to pardon a lobster.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving Y’all.

Make mine, the Weygu steak with 3 Martinis, please.

I’ll take the steak trump-style, well done with lots of ketchup.

Have a blessed and happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The more you give them what they want, the less they want what you are giving them, until you stop.

After three or four martinis you could give them tater tots and call it Russian caviar.

When I lived in Salem, OR, (home of Kettle Chips,) I once got paid twenty dollars to taste-test a new variety. Nice work when you can get it.

A committee is the cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and quietly beaten to death.

Strange looking lobster legs…

What is this? Some kind of non sequitur ? :)

Lobsters got legs! Tell Johnny Hart.

A healthy and abundant Thanksgiving to all.

Looks like turkey legs to me.

Focus group? I one time thought that was someone trying to get a discount on buying the same eye prescription for their club membership. Silly me.

Am I the only person who looked at the central portion of the strip (as it appears in Overview before you switch to Comics) saw the man in the back seat holding something and thought this was going to be a joke about ventriloquists?

Just so you know, Universal Studios and Disneyworld has “lobster thermidor” for about 10 bucks.

Now with the New Improved Claw.

What ever!

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

Wiley does miss when he attempts political humor, but I fail to even understand what the goal post is with this one.