Pickles by Brian Crane for September 28, 2022

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    allen@home  about 2 years ago

    Roscoe around, Earl you got to be quick.

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    MichaelAxelFleming  about 2 years ago

    Does the five second rule apply when I drop my sandwich in the cat box?

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    Ratkin Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Now I’m hungry.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 2 years ago

    so close, eh, Roscoe?

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    yoey1957  about 2 years ago

    Due to supply chain issues some parts of the country are increasing the 5 second rule to 10 seconds.

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    C  about 2 years ago

    That’s how the cookie crumbles

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    enigmamz  about 2 years ago

    Opal, why? Don’t you mop the floor?

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    PraiseofFolly  about 2 years ago

    Dog thought: ((Once again I have to be satisfied with crumbs!))

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    akiprev04  about 2 years ago

    The rule which has been proved wrong.

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    iggyman  about 2 years ago

    Roscoe, you sometimes kill me! Funny!

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    iggyman  about 2 years ago

    Here it’s the 3 second rule!

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    iggyman  about 2 years ago

    Check out Roscoe’s anticipation! Aw the letdown!

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    Acworthless  about 2 years ago

    Any dog I’ve ever owned would have been on top of it as it hit the floor — or grabbed it on its way down!

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    JoeStoppinghem Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Around our house, “Once on the floor. It is no more.”

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    Ichabod Ferguson  about 2 years ago

    As kids we used to “Kiss it up to god” to ‘cleanse’ candy we’d dropped on the floor and wanted to eat —but not in front of our parents.

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    patricev70  about 2 years ago

    Better not leave it to Roscoe if it was a chocolat chips cookie! Or raisins!

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    ANIMAL  about 2 years ago

    I subscribe to the ZERO second rule……. floors are NASTY..!!!!!!!!

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    rhpii  about 2 years ago

    Scientific analysis of the 5 second rule. One important conclusion, cookies are more likely to be picked up off the floor and eaten as compared to broccoli. I could have told them that without a Phd. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-does-science-say-about-five-second-rule-its-complicated-180960434/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20five%2Dsecond%20rule%20is,and%20gummy%20candy%20the%20least.

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    Redd Panda  about 2 years ago

    Pup must have arthritis, my old boy would have gobbled that, before it stopped moving.

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    rickmac1937 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Too slow Roscoe

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    walstib Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Crane is a master at depicting Roscoe’s facial expressions.

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    Comics are the first thing to read  about 2 years ago

    With our dogs, nothing lasted 5 seconds on the floor.

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    assrdood  about 2 years ago

    In certain rooms, the rules do not apply. And, in certain rooms, they are strictly enforced. Sorta like our government.

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    kaycstamper  about 2 years ago

    Looks like chocolate chip cookies, best NOT to let the dog have it!

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    CharlesBaker  about 2 years ago

    I doubt it would have even hit the floor at my house!

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    Ed The Red Premium Member about 2 years ago

    No chocolate chip cookies for dogs. Sorry, Roscoe.

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    IWannaBeLerxst  about 2 years ago

    Roscoe REWLS. Best character in the strip.

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    Detroit Dan  about 2 years ago

    Our beast can’t count to five, so it would be gone by three or less…

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    Bookworm  about 2 years ago

    If my dog Max was still around, the 5-Second rule wouldn’t matter. A dropped cookie would never hit the floor.

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    JudithStocker Premium Member about 2 years ago

    As long as they’re not chocolate chip cookies then Roscoe could have them.

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    Zebrastripes  about 2 years ago

    Awwww, at least give him a bite. LOL

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    goboboyd  about 2 years ago

    Earl and Rosco can both be “Good Boys” by sharing and kissing the cook. Only Rosco get to use tongue. Pucker up Earl. Snuggles on the couch for all.

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    brian  about 2 years ago

    I love the 5 second rule. :-) You go, Earl!!!

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Yeah Roscoe….it’s a poor dogs life?

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    daleandkristen  about 2 years ago

    Wait. If said cookie fell onto, say, a cat vomit, would Earl still be munching it down even if he grabbed it up within the 5 seconds? Rosco has enough sense not to. I think, maybe he would though…

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    ComicsBinger Premium Member about 2 years ago

    No five second rule in homes with sheddy cats.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  about 2 years ago

    Takes me more than five seconds to get down there

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    Mary Sullivan Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I’m surprised he had time to get it before Roscoe did. Most dogs I know are quicker than that.

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    zeexenon  about 2 years ago

    A young dog would have grabbed it in mid air and been gone.

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    dlaemmerhirt999  about 2 years ago

    “WHAT A jerk!” – Roscoe

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    Bill Hand  about 2 years ago

    With my dog, that cookie wouldn’t have had a chance to bounce, much less survive five seconds

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    heathcliff2  about 2 years ago

    Assuming Earl has a healthy immune system.

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    coffeeturtle  about 2 years ago

    There are only three types of people in the world….

    The Quick

    The Dead

    The cookie-less

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    Nobody_Important  about 2 years ago

    Hard to have a five second rule here when we have a two second dog!

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    kab2rb  about 2 years ago

    I assume not chocolate, for our dogs they be faster, unless mom is around then she reacts.

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    ramonmister28  about 2 years ago

    An old man who can beat a dog to food on a floor?

    Either call Guinness to get Earl in the book or take Roscoe to the Vet for a check-up.

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    w16521  about 2 years ago

    That’s an angry looking Roscoe in the last panel.

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    StevePappas  about 2 years ago

    Mythbusters busted that myth.

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    montylc2001  about 2 years ago

    With a dog and a cat in the house…the 5 second rule does not apply…unless you really like eating hair.

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    einarbt  about 2 years ago

    Common dog, you need to be quicker than that.

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