Pickles by Brian Crane for September 21, 2021

But which brother got which leg?

Good practice for the old men’s sack race I guess.

They were so poor that they had to unplug the clocks when they weren’t using them. They were so poor they couldn’t pay attention. They were so poor that he was in school before he found out that a Jam sandwich wasn’t just two pieces of bread jammed together…

Ha ha! Roscoe pops 1 eye open…

Now Earl can share “pants” with the dog. So can Nelson. All they have to do is stick their tongues out and breath quickly and deeply.

This brought to mind immediately one of Monty Python’s great sketches, “The Four Yorkshire Men,” in which each tried to outdo the others in describing how poor they were when they were kids. Of course, in true Python fashion, it went to ridiculous extremes in the end, but it was hilarious.

Did you have to share the hole in the pocket?

Just like Earl walking to school for ten miles up hill in the snow both ways.

… or are you two just happy to see me?

Who got to use the belt Earl ? Did you cut the belt in half ?

I bet the brother on the ‘left’ was a nutjob with irresponsible ideas of idealistic nonsense.

That would be stretching the truth and the pants.

We were so poor, our shoes had cardboard soles and when it snowed we would have to walk barefoot so they would not fall apart!

You here about the snake? He was so poor it did not have a pit to hiss in!

I think Roscoe’s reaction speaks for a lot of us!

I aspire to being Earl when I have grandchildren..

Did you have to walk up a hill in the snow, carrying you books and lunch, and chew gum at the same time too?

Ah, but they did get a change of underwear every week. Earl, you change with Leon. Leon, you change with Earl. (Very old joke.)

Uh, right. grandpa. . .Roscoe’s gotchyer number. . .

Money can’t buy happiness. Poverty can’t either.

In all this confusion…. has anyone else noticed that the dog has three eyes.??? (1 open & 2 closed)

I was thinking that an Am/PM arrangement would work better. Mmmm, still warm.

Real poor boys wore their sister’s dresses.

Earl not only kissed the Blarney Stone, he gave it a hickey.

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Nelson will believe almost anything. Opal sets him straight.

And you hopped to school barefoot in the snow uphill both ways!

Ha.. we were so poor we couldn’t dream in color.

Walk this way.

doesn’t that make them crossed-dressers?

When Earl was little, his family was so poor that they had nothing – Earl didn’t even have a mustache then

That got the pooch to open one eye?

I’LL BET THEY NEVER WENT ANYWHERE

But who got the waist?

Joined at the hip, they were.

I think he’s pulling your leg!

My dad liked to say he was so poor he couldn’t afford a middle name.

As we used to say at my house, when I was a kid, “First up is the best dressed!”

In the morning they each put on their pant and walked to school… very close together…

We were so poor my parents couldn’t afford to get us toys and clothes for Christmas – so every year I got a new pair of Levi’s, with the pockets cut out.

The old my family was so poor joke. Another version for when kids complained about walking to school was “I had to walk 5 miles to school uphill both ways”

I hope Nelson figures out his grandpa is full it, before he become too confused.

When my daddy was in grade school, he had one pair of overalls to wear to school every day, and his step-mother would wash them in the bathtub at night and hang them up to dry so he could wear them again in the morning. That would have been in the 1930s in the South of the US.

We know whose leg is being pulled, at least.

Uphill both ways, in the snow!

We we so poor that we couldn’t pay attention!

Even Roscoe is like “WTF”?

Ooh that gives me an uncomfortable mental picture.

Why didn’t monty python use this? It’s brilliant