Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 01, 2011

The second half was influenced by Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch.

What’s another word for “orange”?

He certainly got the last word in.

He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed him to the perch he’d be pushing up the daisies! He’s kicked the bucket, shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

(well, somebody had to be first with the quote).

And now for something completely different…

The Monty Python Parrot Shop Sketch was influenced by Roget’s Thesaurus, so it all comes around…

To Be – 1914Not To Be – 1994

Wiley’s been doing an unusual number of “epitaph” cartoons lately.

Yes, but…..

Any relation to GoComics editor John Glynn?

He has passed on!He has ceased to be!He is an EX-PEDANT!

I hope he’s not married. There’s no room on there for anyone else!

A biological certianty——-A biological certianty.

#6, What is a mortal coil?

And the others are at a loss for words.

… “of being alive”

I once dug up a fossilized Thesaurus.

What’s another word for thesaurus?

IMO – best epitaph ever … -Here lies Lester Moore.

Four slugs

From a forty-four.

No Les

No More.

FYI 1991…

Today’s comic has a very New Yorker-ish character. I like it.

it says 1991, not 1994, so it’s 4 score minus 3

Guess they ran out of room for “kaput”…

Supposedly, a young girl once saw a tombstone reading “Here lies an honest man and a good lawyer,” she ashed her mother, “Why did they bury two people in the same place?” :-)

@three steps over JapanThe original word for that color was ġeolurēad (yellow-red).

Why haven’t they posted today’s comic?

The entire site is stuck on yesterday, one can only assume that they are doing an update on there servers, or some other activity, that keeps it from being current.