The strangest non-sequitar I've heard in a while

So, I was watching a documentary on the Sci-Fi channel. Hey, stop laughing. It was about snake handling cults in West Virginia/Tennessee. They interviewed one of the guys and his speech was so slurred he needed subtitles.

Two minutes later the serpent strokers were downing strychnine. The voice-over guy says “effects of drinking strychnine are slurred speech (plus death etc…). The members of the congregation are apparently totally unharmed by the poison”.

:confused:

Anyone seen anything more disingenuous ??

Pardon me, but…

Where, exactly, is the non-sequitur in the above?
Also, where’s the supposed insincerity?

One more niggling question:

How can a science fiction channel possibly have documentaries?

Maybe that was the non-sequitur.
It was also a very good cartoon that my Sunday paper used to carry.

I heard that a lot of what used to sell as “acid” in Calif. was just a medicine ball of speed & strychnine. The strychnine was what made you “see colors”.

Not that I would know, or anything.

Maybe I was a little unclear.

The guys were drinking strychnine which normally causes slurred speech. The V/O guys says that they are miraculously unharmed.

Two minutes before this they interviewed one of the imbibers and his speech was so slurred that he needed sub titles.

It struck me as very bizarre. Maybe the SciFi channel has trouble hiring experienced journalists.

But that’s not a non sequitur – the National Miniature Donkey Association has a close working relationship with the American Donkey & Mule Society.

Yeah I’m not seeing a non sequitur here either…:confused:

Ninety: I don’t have the link anymore that debunks your acid/strychnine myth, but trust me–it’s a myth.

Opal: thanks for the de-bunking.
P.S. Surely you have a place in Heaven for bringing us that virtual bubblewrap.

non sequitur

What was in the OP fits. I just didn’t follow it well. (I blame Canada!) Strychnine slurs speech. Man in church who uses strychnine has slurred speech. Narrator says [non-sequitur] “The members of the church who drink strychnine are unaffected.”
Many penguins live in Antartica. Antartica is kind of cold. [non-sequitur] Penguins hate the cold.

I think that for religious snake handlers to drink strychnine to show their holy immunity to snake venom is a big fat non sequitur. I could be wrong, but I believe the only link between snakes and strychnine is their shared peril to rats.

The link comes from the scripture they’re riffing on:

If your marinating your meat on this Labor Day:

Link

non-sequitur

Bruce_Daddy, was that meant as an example of a non sequitur, or am I missing something? [sub]Or did you post to the wrong thread?;)[/sub]

Not sure what you mean, but:

Link

I see

Speaking of frisbees, did you guys know squids have beaks?

No, but hum a few bars and maybe i can take it from there.

Squid have beaks? Wow, I could really go for a pizza now.

I poked a badger with a spoon.