Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 11, 2024

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    wallylm  about 2 months ago

    So it wasn’t the Stoned Age?

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    wallylm  about 2 months ago

    Maybe also because, as shown in the Far Side awhile ago, the field experiments kept killing test subjects.

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    Bilan  about 2 months ago

    Don’t forget having people dance to a kitschy tune.

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    sirbadger  about 2 months ago

    Does this mean that primitive tribes have really advanced marketing?

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    sandpiper  about 2 months ago

    S-o-o-o-o-o Market testing comes before road testing?

    H-m-m-m-m, sounds familiar.

    Brings back the old advertising saw from early days, i.e., sell the sizzle, not the steak.

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    Zykoic  about 2 months ago

    Next; How can we make it a subscription service?

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    Aussie65  about 2 months ago

    They were looking to market to that demographic. Given life expectancy, that’s the middle aged market. Should be going for the 12-18 range

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    SmallMeadow  about 2 months ago

    Oh, heavens. Just roll with it.

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    AnnChovie  about 2 months ago

    The most important invention was the axel. It’s what made the wheel worth something.

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    Walter Kocker  about 2 months ago

    Maybe it’s not what you think.

    A man from Mars landed on Second Avenue and looked into a store window, fascinated.

    Finally, he entered the shop and asked the owner:

    “What are those little wheels in the window?”

    “Wheels? What wheels?”

    The Martian pointed.

    “Those aren’t wheels.” The owner smiled.

    “They’re called bagels . . . we eat them . . . Here, try one.”

    The Martian bit into the bagel and smacked his lips,

    “Man, these would go great with lox and a schmear.”

    - Leo Rosten The New Joys Of Yiddish

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    PaulGriffin  about 2 months ago

    In the Paleolithic era approximately 75% of deaths were caused by infection, including diarrheal diseases that resulted in dehydration and starvation. Life expectancy was approximately 33 years of age. This explains why the marketing department has always been traditionally useless.

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member about 2 months ago

    That demographic drastically reduced the size of the wheel and placed them on skateboards!

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    Imagine  about 2 months ago

    That they were stoned didn’t help either…

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    PraiseofFolly  about 2 months ago

    There’s always an Over-Thinker, ahead of his Time: “It’s called ‘a letter’. It will be used to describe our speech, and used in ‘writing’. All we need to do is come up with other appropriate letter shapes. Just because we’re Stone Age folks, we’re not necessarily stupid.”

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    LawrenceS  about 2 months ago

    It takes tech to make newer tech. And when the only tools you have are rocks progress comes slowly.

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member about 2 months ago

    The Flintstones made it work!

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    Prey  about 2 months ago

    Appeal to the 18 – 34 demographic – tell them their parents are trying to get it banned.

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 2 months ago

    I’m surprised nobody mentioned Hitchhiker’s Guide, where the Fire Development Sub-Committee holds off on inventing fire because they aren’t sure how to market it, and won’t invent the wheel till they figure out what color it should be.

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    cdnalor  about 2 months ago

    Flame decals or racing stripes might work best for that demographic.

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    mindjob  about 2 months ago

    And you can forget about quality control

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    baskate_2000  about 2 months ago

    If you think about it, we’re still there, given our potential leadership.

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    DaBump Premium Member about 2 months ago

    The real reason is that our methods of estimating the age of things without historical records don’t work very well without historical records to calibrate them.

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    David_the_CAD  about 2 months ago

    We don’t have any roads yet, and the wheel needs roads, so we will stop working on the wheel until other people build all of the roads.

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    Wiley creator about 2 months ago

    Only 2 days left in the Cartoonists for Kamala comic art auction. Click the link to see all the great pieces available.

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    christelisbetty  about 2 months ago

    Advertising insurance (for wheel accidents) is the 2nd step.

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    Drbarb71 Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Um most humans didnt live past 20 back then so….

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  about 2 months ago

    They thought they’d invented Life Savers until t hey tried sucking on the stone…..

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    Smeagol  about 2 months ago

    Don’t forget to come up with the idea of the extended warranty, lots of fools fall for it. Just give your stone mail and you will be forever in their warranty program.

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    mistercatworks  about 2 months ago

    For those unfamiliar with very early human history, 18 years was pretty good run.

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    lnrokr55  about 2 months ago

    What makes you think the Stone age ever ended, most media and government is still running on mid to late twentieth century ideas, stupid continues to rule, regardless of party ! ;-)

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    walter Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Okay. Stone Age seniors campaign.

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    willie_mctell  about 2 months ago

    Like the marketing people from the Golga Frinchum B Ark discussing fire.

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    Buoy  about 2 months ago

    Make it able to take selfies and it will sell itself.

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    eddi-TBH  about 2 months ago

    Eventually they gave up and sold the patent rights to Johnny Hart for an undisclosed number of clams.

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    toolmaker  about 2 months ago

    Does anyone else have an annoying AT&T ad popping up over the middle of the comic you are trying to read?

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    keenanthelibrarian  about 2 months ago

    Sounds like a great idea – don’t want to have a good idea go to waste.

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    jimelmo  about 2 months ago

    kamala is a cartoon

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    fbkarl  about 2 months ago

    I only saw the link for cartoonists for commies.

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