Pickles by Brian Crane for January 22, 2022

Maybe, but at least not bitter and cantankerous like grandma

We bought some really nice Gorgonzola at the deli today. Yum. For some cheeses, the older the better.

Whoa.

And that’s what attracted you by him in the 1st place

Sounds like the butter is slipping off Earl’s noodles.

Sheesh the way these 2 talk about each other (especially Opal who seems to actually find Earl disgusting!) and avoid each other, god knows why they’re still together, habit i guess. Well I get caught up in their story and forget about them just being cartoons lol however I’ve heard that Brian based them on a real life couple he knew, I wonder if they stayed together?!

Okay, where’s the Pickles Extras page, where we can read the cartoons about the melody and the bicycle? I want to see those two as well!

“I didn’t say your skin has a delicate essence, I said your skin smells like a delicatessen.” -Redd Foxx

For some reason I’m hungry.

And like Swiss cheese his stories are full of holes!

“Not you too, Gramma.”

You didn’t help Nelson’s feeling of cluelessness there, Opal!

Nelson take notes ! …. For the Pop- Quiz Later :-)

Is Brian Crane now doing new Pickles strips Mondays thru Wednesdays and showcasing rerun Pickles strips Thursdays thru Saturdays? I guess the Pickles strip is in its last legs.

Great line! I have to remember this one!

As we age, it’s just banter back and forth….frick n frack barbs…means nothing in actuality. They still love each other……and as we get older, it’s easier to speak our minds!

You can be sick and tired of your spouses habits (and hygiene) and after decades of that, love them dearly.

To cheat on your significant other takes too much time and running around and once you are over 60, you rather just take a nap.

This arc reminded me of an old Red Wing Boot ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-1TgVU4PJ4

He has said he based them on a couple he knew (I think his in-laws). What impressed him was their obvious affection for each other which they expressed through the kind of habitual insults he portrays.

Grandma getting a smack mouth

My husband and I were of the badge-wearing persuasion before we retired. One day last year we had to have Rescue and MTs here for a medical issue. I guess we were talking so morbidly when he was being assessed that the female Ambulance Paramedic finally asked him what we did. He told her, and she responded, “I knew it! I KNEW it!”

“Life is a minestrone

“Served up with parmesan cheese

“Death is a cold Lasagne

“Suspended in deep freeze”

Grandma ain’t no bunch of posies either.

And, Grampa has a super critical spouse!

Sage commentary for Nelson!

And Grandma’s lay the smelliest farts imaginable.

How do I love thee. Let me count the ways.

Ohwee, not nice!

Sounds good! The older the cheese, the better. Just scrape off the mold, get fine red wine …. life couldn’t be better.

You can still be in love with somebody even when they’re full of baloney and smell like old cheese lol

Life is like … ineffable, man. Completely living ineffable.

“…all good things.”

WOW – OUCH..!!!!!!!

I could say Earl doesn’t know what he is talking about either, but then he is a grandpa and I am also, so he is full of it….wisdom.

Poor Nelson, Grandpa overloaded him with metaphors (well similes actually), and then Grandma piled on some more.

Be Nice Now! — BE NICE!

like my in laws