Pickles by Brian Crane for December 23, 2020

I never thought of Earl as such a Scrooge.

I went Christmas caroling with some neighbors once when we were young teenagers. We went through town, ringing doorbells, then doing a couple songs, wishing the people a merry Christmas and then we went on to the next house. At one house, a girl said, “Let’s not stop t this house. I heard the lady who lives here is mean”. But we decided to stop anyway and we sang and wished her a merry Christmas and she was so happy and pleased – not mean at all. It made us all feel so good that we made her so happy. We were not the greatest of singers, but people all seemed happy that we stopped by.

Simple minds, Earl, are easily amused!

At least you didn’t do the Eno Camino solution

Atta Boy Earl !

Glad that the other reason why there may not have been carolers wasn’t brought up…

He’s obviously jealous because he can’t carry a tune.

No Christmas Carolers at your door this Christmas 2020 thanks to the COVID pandemic, you will have to listen to Christmas Carolers via virtural ZOOM video or something like that.

Me, too, Earl!

“WHAT DID Y’ALL DO WITH THE MONEY YOUR MOMS’ GAVE YOU FOR SINGING LESSONS?!?”

Earl time to watch “A Christmas Carol”

Turning the garden hose on them works too.

I must have had a sheltered youth…I never had a Geezer yell at me about his lawn.

Earl’s just doing his favorite Stones song;

“Hey! You! Get offa my lawn!”

Earl is a curmudgeon it seems!

I know that I would not want to visit Earl.

Grumpy old man

Now we know that Earl’s selective hearing is tuned into the key of the song being sung.

He’s really getting to be a bonafide CRAB!

He sounds like my Grandpa

He treats carolers like a “Groucho Marx!”

HMmm I used to look forward to this strip but not for long with this line of thinking. Don’t think this is really funny. Enough gloom and negitive in this world laltey with out having in the funny papers.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERY ONE AND SOME JOY TO THE WORLD

it’s curmudgeon’s holiday

The DO get off the lawn then!

He deserves that.

Even things you don’t really like can be missed when they are gone.

Plus, they flat-out refuse to do requests. Like ‘Smoke On The Water’.

Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song, I will try not to sing out of key…

If you squint you can see them coming with their high school marching band playing mariachi music.

Good times, good times!!