Pickles by Brian Crane for June 18, 2023

Well done Earl

Earl your song is better. I like KitKat candy.

If you put a KitKat bar and mittens in a warm copper kettle, you’ll have hard to clean mittens and candy with fiber.

I don’t mind people going around singing/humming/whistling especially bc it usually means they’re in a good mood but my mother in law does it and I have to agree with Earl bc she sings SO loud!

My husband’s family & mine went to the same church growing up & it was a large congregation (around 120-150 usually) but you could always hear her singing above everyone else & the music! & bring earplugs if you’re gonna be trapped in the car with her lol in the confined space she’ll have your ears ringing singing Celine Dion at the top of her lungs!

Earl certainly isn’t cultured with Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Now I want Kit Kat bar

Whenever I’d get so frustrated at work that I was ready to snap, I’d whistle. Patients would comment on how nice it was to have such a cheerful nurse, and I’d think, “if only you knew!”

Thanks, Earl. Now that song is stuck in my head…

I like the my favorite things song.

When the Earl sings … This was not one of her favorite things

It could be worse, Earl. She could sing like Edith of All In the Family.

ROFL!

Does Nestle give $ for product placement?

I like to sing, but I can’t carry a tune in a bucket!

To each his own.

I’m the worst singer in the world. I even have the trophy. It’s a statue of 2 deaf children. One is covering it’s ears and the other is signing “Please make it stop. It hurts”

Earl should have gone with, “99 bottles of beer on the wall ….”

Doubly funny, as the Missus & I watched “The Sound of Music” last night ;)

Commercial Christmas, Brian!! Stop!!

Earl, you’re in your golden years, and silence is golden…well, you can see where I’m going here…

LOL!!!! Earl!!!!

I can’t believe Opal to be this silly in this comic strip. Maybe after living with Earl all those years drove her to it.

( ◜⁠⯋⁠◝ ) funniest Pickles in quite a while

Ya got a volume knob on that hearing aid right…….. USE IT.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Walking my baby back home” is my song- – sometimes “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”

I like that Earl’s not always a wimpy pushover…

Opal kind of made a wish. She kind of got her wish – just not the way she wished for it. This is a reminder to be careful what you wish for.

I think I remember this. It’s some kind of obscure “round”, right? :)

Almost as much fun as singing the same song, but to different tunes like they do with the Hogwarts Anthem.

Bleah! The Snickers bar beats all….

In the fourth panel you can sure see the huge Pickles’ noses.

I was just thinking about this song when I woke up this morning:

*Nobody can tell ya;

There’s only one song worth singin’,

They may try and sell ya,

’Cause it hangs them up to see someone like you.

But you’ve gotta make your own music

Sing your own special song,

Make your own kind of music even if nobody else sings along.

You’re gonna be knowing

The loneliest kind of lonely,

It may be rough goin’,

Just to do your thing’s the hardest thing to do.

But you’ve gotta make your own music

Sing your own special song,

Make your own kind of music even if nobody else sings along.

So if you cannot take my hand,

And if you must be goin’,I will understand.

But you’ve gotta make your own music

Sing your own special song,

Make your own kind of music even if nobody else sings along."

The Kit Kat song isn’t right for me but it’s right for Earl.

Earl marches to the beat of a different drum.

Julie Andrews nailed that tune, Opal. If you must, sing it quietly in you own mind.

“When the Dog Bites, When the Bee Stings, These are Some of my Favorite Things”

For some, singing is self soothing, a very necessary method to heal and comfort from CPTSD and people tend to shut us down. People say that I have a lovely voice and ask me to sing for them but when I’m self soothing I get; “Why did you choose that song?” “Sing something we all know!” "Who says that that is a Christmas song? or the ever narcissistic “You’re doing it wrong!” I was actually told I wasn’t aloud to sing as a child so my brother would wait outside of my bedroom door, the other side of the house, downstairs from his room, and tattle if I tried to sing.

LOLOL — I can definitely hear my grandparents in this …

What amount was he paid for this ad?

huh

https://www.gocomics.com/pickles/2008/05/27

Not exactly the same but pretty close.

Andy from The Office liked this comic.

EARL!