Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 26, 2021

Sit in your designated areas, please.

Because he is a nerd, ma’am.

Is there also a preferred pronoun desk?

This is what happens when the school bullies grow up. They never stop being bullies.

Too bad Kurtwood Smith’s Red Forman character isn’t sitting at the registration table.

Reminds me of the sign that says “Blind? For assistance call 888-OMG-WHAT” … because getting folks with low self esteem to attend a seminar? Good luck (even if they hadn’t blown the welcome sign)!

This reminds me of that IQ test question.

If all Bloops are Razzies and all Razzies are Lazzies, all Bloops are definitely Lazzies?

If all Geeks are Dorks and all Dorks are Losers, all Geeks are definitely Losers?

But so called geeks & dorks are some of our brightest minds & definitely not losers. So in the second example we have a fallacy; it’s generalizing.

Just tell each of them that they speak truth about the signs in front of them!

Then leave and get a good cappuccino Coffee!

Shuffle the signs after each registration.

So which sign would YOU sign in under? Hmm?

The opening paragraphs of more and more op-eds sport a kind of proud confession of being a geek of one sort or another.

My kids used to fiddle around with the orch dorks.

No lines for nerds. Nerds are proud of it. They’re the ones producing the programming the rest of us need, and they’re damn proud of the fact (and well paid for it). Want a job done right? Hire a nerd!

A geek is a dork who is so technically qualified that (s)he gets paid well to do “geek stuff.”

It appears that assigning negative values and attributes to people we don’t know is the most widely practised and the most useless activity of modern times. It is equivalent to a super fast race car pulling a trailer full of lead. Lots of revving and burning rubber, but not much progress. Si tragique.

No one said it’s purpose was to increase self esteem.

There’s a Venn diagram that’s been going around the Web for ages. The three circles are labeled “Intelligence”, “Obsession” and “Social Ineptitude”. The intersection of Intelligence and Obsession is “geek”, of Intelligence and Social Ineptitude is “dweeb”, and of Obsession and Social Ineptitude is “dork”.

At the center of the diagram where all three circles meet is labeled “nerd”.

No line for nerds?

They forgot dweebs

Preoccupation and obsession with self esteem is a requirement of… well, you know who you are, Lefty.

Seems a lot like boot camp to me. Where do the nerds sign in?

Obviously NOT in need of the seminar.

They must be graduates who over-compensated.

So they self sorted? They probably didn’t need the labels for themselves.

Not off to a good start.

“Do I have to sign in all 3 times?”

As I live with one, trust me, Geeks know that they are Geeks.

Reminds me of an anecdote of a politician touring a local seniors residence. He gently asked an elderly lady if she knew who he was. She replied: “No, but if you ask the person over at the desk there, she will tell you.”

Soooooo, Doc, just what is your classification?

After the seminar they talk only in the language used in the seminar. We called them ‘estholes’.

Never allow someone with an overdose of Arrogance and Entitlement to organize a Self Esteem building seminar.

“Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you!” — Ambassador Londo Mollari:

That is uncharacteristically meanspirited from this particular author.

D. All of the above. I’m a three time “winner”.