Earl reading the labels – good one. I still do the same, and it’s very – ahem – enlightening. For example, there’s a furniture polish out there that proclaims to the world, “made with real lemon juice.” But the lemonade mixes and so on proclaim just as loudly, “artificially flavored.” So we’re drinking the Gilbert’s chemistry set and spraying the good stuff on the coffee table?
She won’t touch the paper after Earl has had it in the bathroom?!? How dirty is that bathroom?!? Or… just exactly WHAT is Earl using the newspaper for?!? Nevermind! I don’t want to know!
I used to turn all the bottles on the counter upside down. Having 2 younger sisters, there were always LOTS of bottles. One day, Mom said, “I fixed you!” All the bottles in the bathroom had round tops.
When they do invent a time machine, I’m betting it will be a lot like a bathroom. Time inside that room is different than time outside.
I pictured the famous thought experiment with a pair of twins. One is inside the bathroom for fifty years. The other is outside it. You can bet the outside one is going to look a lot older after fifty years.
Why the heck do people need to take stuff into the bathroom to read, anyway? Why can’t they just go in, sit, shit, and pee and then get out? OK, maybe if you’re constipated you’ll be in there a while. Maybe then you’ll want to have something to read. I’ve never taken anything in there to read.
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
final panel must be Earl reading shampoo or 409 multi-purpose cleaner
laughingkitty over 5 years ago
My dad always read the “Reader’s Digest” in the bathroom.
GuntherGrass over 5 years ago
That’s what smartphones are for!
Casey Jones over 5 years ago
Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers. Great books to read anywhere.
Jack Bell Premium Member over 5 years ago
Her choice. In that case she wasn’t going to read it.
Zebrastripes over 5 years ago
Trigger words, yeah, that’s the ticket……
donwalter over 5 years ago
Just take the crossword, Earl…
walstib Premium Member over 5 years ago
Or Sudoku!
Breadboard over 5 years ago
This is the first time she ever saw him going to the reading room with the paper ? Take Opal’s laptop next time ;-)
V45mikky over 5 years ago
What does Earl do with that newspaper in the Bathroom?
cmo2495 Premium Member over 5 years ago
We keep a handheld solitaire game in the bathroom.
iggyman over 5 years ago
That is what the old Sears catalogs were for! Miss them.
jimmeh over 5 years ago
I say just do your business and get out. That ain’t no easy chair!
Al Nala over 5 years ago
Books and magazines, EARL!!!
Bookworm over 5 years ago
Earl reading the labels – good one. I still do the same, and it’s very – ahem – enlightening. For example, there’s a furniture polish out there that proclaims to the world, “made with real lemon juice.” But the lemonade mixes and so on proclaim just as loudly, “artificially flavored.” So we’re drinking the Gilbert’s chemistry set and spraying the good stuff on the coffee table?
harry49 over 5 years ago
Is that why they call them "bathroom books?:
ForrestOverin over 5 years ago
She won’t touch the paper after Earl has had it in the bathroom?!? How dirty is that bathroom?!? Or… just exactly WHAT is Earl using the newspaper for?!? Nevermind! I don’t want to know!
Tentoes over 5 years ago
I used to turn all the bottles on the counter upside down. Having 2 younger sisters, there were always LOTS of bottles. One day, Mom said, “I fixed you!” All the bottles in the bathroom had round tops.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 5 years ago
Cell phone
MichaelHelwig over 5 years ago
Earl take the paper. She can make her choice later.
Bonita Voigt over 5 years ago
The mobile phone like the rest of us.
lagoulou over 5 years ago
She must have taken a nasty pill this morning…she’s meaner than usual..
jless over 5 years ago
Reading in the can, may bring you the gift of the rhoids.
https://nypost.com/2016/08/25/sorry-to-ruin-your-day-but-reading-on-the-toilet-is-bad-for-you/
rlaker22j over 5 years ago
Go comics
Texanna Premium Member over 5 years ago
Finally someone else finds this habit disgusting. No I am not touching that paper when you come out of the bathroom!
Linguist over 5 years ago
My Dad’s favorite expression, as he headed to the bathroom, the newspaper in hand, was: " Anyone wants me, I’ll be in the library. "
leopoldenoch over 5 years ago
Buy a cell phone, you can stay there forever.
leopoldenoch over 5 years ago
With the Internet connection, of course
Joy B Adams Custer over 5 years ago
I’ve actually done this!
Kip W over 5 years ago
When they do invent a time machine, I’m betting it will be a lot like a bathroom. Time inside that room is different than time outside.
I pictured the famous thought experiment with a pair of twins. One is inside the bathroom for fifty years. The other is outside it. You can bet the outside one is going to look a lot older after fifty years.
bookworm0812 over 5 years ago
Why the heck do people need to take stuff into the bathroom to read, anyway? Why can’t they just go in, sit, shit, and pee and then get out? OK, maybe if you’re constipated you’ll be in there a while. Maybe then you’ll want to have something to read. I’ve never taken anything in there to read.
Mayor Snorkum over 5 years ago
If I were Earl, I’d take Opal’s recipe file box to the bathroom the next time and leave it on the toilet lid.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
I read a little more of whatever I have.
Dgwphotos over 5 years ago
I agree with her. I want nothing to do with anything that’s been read in the bathroom.
Charlie Fogwhistle over 5 years ago
Shampoo bottle#