Pickles by Brian Crane for November 30, 2019

Earl looks like he annoyed the skunk.

never again of going to the zoo with your grandson, Earl?

Now Opal wishes she had been there too.

Grandpa: “I only asked how the debates went on TV last week and it did that!”

Almost as bad as what the monkees do!

So Earl sort of fulfilled Nelson’s wish to go to the zoo (see yesterday’s “Pickles”)?

Nelson can practice for the return trip by petting Opal’s bunny slippers.

This actually happened to me at a petting zoo. Nasty. And painful!

Earl rues the day he took Nelson to the petting zoo.

I’d walk a mile for a camel. To spit on me.

Watch the ears. When they lay back you need to get out of the way.

Wash those hands Nelson! petting zoos have some nasty germs.

I remember keeping my distance from llamas at the zoo. they’re sharpshooters with quite a range.

Most llamas will not spit if they are treated well. It’s all in the training. Also you shouldn’t stare them directly in the eye. It makes them feel threatened. It’s lovely to hear them humming and talking together. It sounds sort of like chanting.

Was it’s name Fernando?I have the keys to your Cordoba ;)

Serves him right for delaying the zoo trip!

When I was about ten, I went to a petting zoo where you could buy food bars to feed the animals. I was mobbed by goats grabbing for the bar I was holding and didn’t notice that one of them decided to eat my shirt half off. I thought it was funnier than my parents.

You can’t buy memories like that…

That made the trip worth it.

They have a similar trait with their relatives the came.

Better than getting shat on by a brahma.

I’ve never seen a llama spit on anybody. But I do know this bit of verse (or worse):

A one-L lama, he’s a priest

A two-L llama, he’s a beast

And I will bet a silk pajama

There’s no such thing as a three-L lllama!

- Ogden Nash

A new verse for “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”?