Happy St. Patrick's Day!
I'm Italian, but today I have the luck of the Irish. This blog post magically appeared in the list of comics to which I subscribe and practically wrote itself.
Enjoy!
1. Now THAT's A Non-Sequitur!
Wiley Miller didn't pull the title for his Non Sequitur comic strip out of a magic hat, nor did a leprechaun give it to him. The name is rooted in one of the best sources of comedy, the juxtaposition of well-chosen incongruities to create irony.
non sequitur |ˌnän ˈsekwitər|nouna conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.
ORIGIN Latin, literally ‘it does not follow.’
Keep it up, Wiley, one of these days biblical literalists might see just how fun-damentally incongruous, silly, and dangerous a preference for mythology over science can be when one has to live in and interact with people in the real world.
2. Pursuing the point made in the previous comic...
Pearls Before Swine is another aptly named strip. Like Wiley Miller, Stephen Pastis creates comic irony rooted in non-sequiturs. Today's strip brims with satirical irony if one recognizes that the fun-damental essence of being a lemming means taking a leap of faith.
3. Faith and Begorrah! It's a trifecta on St. Paddy's Day.
A leprechaun sitting next to the pot of gold at the end of today's comic strip rainbow knew I was not after his lucky charms. When I reached in to get today's Dilbert Classics, he said, "Silly Blogger, strips are fun-damentally for intelligent people who have learned to question the myths they were told as kids."
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