Pickles by Brian Crane for May 17, 2022

time to get out the hairspray and the laundry detergent (and a trip to Staples or Office Max for a pocket protector)

Pocket protectors FTW !!

When he found the cap he had an inkling.

Oh, A clue!

Now for the Rorschach test!

Earl you did it again …

Went to Catholic grade school and only had fountain pens, so I can relate. Anyway ballpoints got really cheap, but the Pope hadn’t blessed them or something and the nuns would not let them in the school fearing God’s Wrath. Well they wound up fearing Mothers’ WRATH a whole lot more and we all brought our new ballpoints to school and the splotches were gone.

If you move the right way, Earl…maybe you can add a design for your shirt…

I still use a fountain pen, and I always keep the cap when I lend it to people. Mind you, folks seldom ask twice, as I’m left-handed and the nib is worn to my hand.

Pens have lids?

Aaaah! I remember the day…using ink pens and ink wells to learn cursive writing! Too bad idiots at the higher level decided for us we can’t express ourselves anymore and have people printing like 3rd graders all their lives…PATHETIC!

Laugh at the old guy. Har har.

I have a question about today’s “Big Nate.” I know this is the “Pickles” comment line, but the “Big Nate” comment line is dominated by ADD juveniles.

Nate says he is “Acing” the teacher evaluation. I have always thought that the verb “to Ace” referred to the highest card in the deck. So the gerund should be “Aceing.” But when I type that spelling it is labeled an error and the suggested spelling is the one Nate used. In other words, it is “A – cing.” So how do you spell the verb?

The only time I’ve had a pen leak recently it was black ink, a black shirt and a very dark blue undershirt. Had to toss the pen.

Earl will now ask Opal why she put the pen into his pocket (and without the lid).

Now WHOOOOOOO could have predicted THAT.???!!!!

I’m not buying it, Earl comes from the age of pocket protectors. he likely has one.

Been there done that, in a white dress shirt (no jacket), all day, and no one said anything to me. It might have helped if I’d use a mirror occasionally.

Oh no question Earl is a Pearl!

…and there I am!

I have found that modern ball point and gel pens don’t leak until after you’ve put them through the dryer. :(

“Found it!”

Once again…Pickles provides the first giggle of the day.

Fountain pen?! Are those still legal?

What’s a fountain pen? %

I always carry two click ballpoint pens in my pants pocket for two reasons: 1) Boy Scouts “Be Prepared” and 2) for redundancy, which I learned about working for a computer company. I’ve had occasional leaks ruining pants, but not too often.

Spotted it.

Time to go clothes shopping at some yard sales, Earl.

I was channel surfing decades ago, and came across a comedy centered on some Catholic priests in England. The elderly pastor found out there was a superstition at a local bar: No one would sit on a stool used by a patron who had since died. The pastor sat on the stool, but slipped off. Red appeared on his shirt. He said, quietly to the curate "Help me out of here, Father. I’ve broken something vital to me. " “What is it?”, the curate responded. “My red fountain pen.”

Who even has a fountain pen today. I went to school before Bic pens(or whoever was first) were invented, ruined more than 1 shirt when the bloody things leaked and ruined whatever shirt I was wearing. Of course flying with first generation ink pens in my pocket wasn’t such a good idea either as some of them also leaked

THERE it is!

Real pens suck ink from a bottle