Pickles by Brian Crane for February 09, 2019

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    enigmamz  over 5 years ago

    “And we walked 20 miles to school each day, uphill both ways, through 10 feet of snow!!!!”

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    jagedlo  over 5 years ago

    Was going to suggest a cape, but then I remembered Edna Mode’s advice from “The Incredibles”…

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 5 years ago

    The wall-mounted telephone — from which you couldn’t text, surf the Web, or play games — also had a cord and actual, non-touchscreen buttons! (nice knowing you, Nelson’s granduncle Leon)

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    hariseldon59  over 5 years ago

    Reminds me of Dana Carvey’s Grumpy Old Man character from Saturday Night Live.

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    Martin I  over 5 years ago

    All you could do is interact with other humans and keep up a conversation.

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    sirbadger  over 5 years ago

    Older old people will remember a time before answering machines. There were a lot fewer spam calls then and the person on the other end of the line was human.

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    wiatr  over 5 years ago

    We had a black phone on the wall only once. The others were still black but they sat on a table.

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    bobbyray526  over 5 years ago

    and it was a Party line !

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    iggyman  over 5 years ago

    And it had a rotary dial!

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    cdward  over 5 years ago

    So, essentially, this new superhero is about Earl — and half the readers of this strip.

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    Duster Freebottom Premium Member over 5 years ago

    It didn’t have a dial at all.

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    Breadboard  over 5 years ago

    Milk ,Bread , and Eggs were delivered to your door …..

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    jpayne4040  over 5 years ago

    Actually (and surprisingly), I like it!

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    cubswin2016  over 5 years ago

    Earl is also Captain Blunderman.

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    t jacobs  over 5 years ago

    …but we never lost that phone.

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    peytie Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Too much like the other one, “Pluggers”

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    charleysdad57  over 5 years ago

    Leon i.e. Brian, you still got it!

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    smgray  over 5 years ago

    The phone did not have to be replaced every 2 years and almost never broke no matter how many times it was dropped.

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    well-i-never  over 5 years ago

    This is exciting! “Back in my day we didn’t have toilet paper, we had the Sears catalog!”

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    cmo2495 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    We had two phones when I was growing up. If I was really stealthy, I could use one to eaves drop on my big brother when he was talking to one of his girlfriends.

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    Linguist  over 5 years ago

    When I was a kid, we had one of the first “portable” phones. Our old black bakelite, rotary dial phone had an extremely long, cloth-wrapped cord attached, that allowed my mother to talk on the phone in any room, upstairs or down, in our little Cape Cod house – even in the basement.

    We had a ‘telephone stand’ in the dining room where the phone usually resided and the cord was hung like a lasso. The stand sported a seat (or my mother’s “throne”, as we used to call it) and a little table that the phone rested on. Very stylish and practical in the late 1940s !

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    Grutzi  over 5 years ago

    Oh, dear. Captain Underpants?? Hasn’t that been done already as a book series? Poor Earl. At least he’ll b famous!

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    racpilot  over 5 years ago

    And you had to try to get the phone to a closet to have a private conversation

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    assrdood  over 5 years ago

    My Grandparents lived in a home built in the 1920’s . It had a built-in nook for the new-fangled telephones. It was conveniently located in the Hallway between bedrooms and main living area. It was considered very modern for the day,

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    assrdood  over 5 years ago

    At least in the old days, we learned the art of verbal conversation. I don’t understand why kids would rather text. It’s so much simpler just to talk. If not a convenient time for the “callee”, there’s the option of a voice message.

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    ms-ss  over 5 years ago

    All through our teen years the phone was attached to the kitchen wall. How were we supposed to talk to our girlfriends?

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    library_dean  over 5 years ago

    The black wall mounted or desk phones were property of the phone company. You never had to go shopping for a phone. The phones did not require batteries and never had to be charged. School classes and church services were never interrupted by ringing phones. And we didn’t spend hours trying to select a ringtone. Text messages were telegrams and very few were sent. Life was much simpler back then.

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    TheBigPickle  over 5 years ago

    I love it…

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    SunflowerGirl100  over 5 years ago

    Googling Pickles and Brian Crane, I discovered that Earl and Opal are inspired by his in-laws! He was inspired by how devoted to each other they were while bickering constantly. He saw something universal that people would recognize and thus the comic was born. So these last few strips are autobiographical.

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    Perkycat  over 5 years ago

    I love it, too! ☺☺☺

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    jfr Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Oooh, rotary dial – or talk to an operator on a party line. The B should be on his BACK.

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    nosirrom  over 5 years ago

    How long before his sidekick Sergeant “When I Was A Boy” is introduced?

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    Coopergirl Premium Member over 5 years ago

    And the wall phone had a 20’ cord. My father was forever fixing it so it hung correctly!

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    Bookworm  over 5 years ago

    Oh, have some fun with your kids and grandkids. Play the game of “When we only had one ____________ in the house.” One telephone, one TV, one family car, are the obvious ones, of course. But if you’re over 60, how many things did you live without that you didn’t know you could live without?

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 5 years ago

    Ours wasn’t mounted, it just sat there.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 5 years ago

    My super-hero days lie ahead of me

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    Scaramouche  over 5 years ago

    No, it didn’t have any buttons, it had a crank! But it was on the wall.

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 5 years ago

    And it was a ‘party line’, with seven other users!

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  over 5 years ago

    Back in the day there were fewer warning labels, that kept the gene pool a little cleaner.

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    Alien-X  over 5 years ago

    I would like to see a real Captain “Back In My Day” strip.

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