Pickles by Brian Crane for March 04, 2024

You can’t be arrested for shoplifting unless you live in a nice neighborhood.

There was an academic who lived near me with the same name. When I got an article published in a technical journal, it got credited to him in many reference sites. Most of the other name hit notifications I get are obituaries. One of these days they’ll get that kind right.

I googled my unusual name, found a recently retired race car driver in the Toronto area. Can’t go wrong with that.

I guess Earl’s never heard the expression, “Vanity Search”.

I googled my name, I got a former Telenovela actor who was married to a Latin pop singer.

and this earl pickles is commenting on a gocomics comic

One time a couple of years back, a young couple in the grocery store asked if I was a professor of theirs from college days. I’ve never taught, so said they must be mistaken, but they said I looked just like the guy.

All I could say was… “Poor fellow.”

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you.

Your name appears on many bottles at the grocery store, Earl, your last name anyway!

My daughter had exactly the same name as an older girl she went to school with, slightly confusing !

Shoutout to the softball coach in America who shares my name.

One day my wife saw my name in the obituaries so she came over to check my pulse.

I finally know his name is Pickle, not Pickles.

Earl just needs two guys with a ball, and then they could play a game of “Pickle in the middle”.

Earl’s telling us he got arrested for stealing from a University Math department.

I wonder if Mr. Crane got the inspiration for this by Googling his name…

There’s three people in the US with my name. One is often in the paralympics.

Math majors know the cost of that textbook, so naturally, they steal it!

Middle is good

once googled my name. Some guy was being sued for several counts of sexual harassment. He was also about the same age as me. luckily he lived in a different state

Be careful Earl. I hear a lot of commercials that talk about eliminating the middleman.

Earl, just don’t get in a pickle…

I went to a web site called something like into which you could put your name and it would check the electoral register to see how many people had the same name. When I did it for mine, it came back with “no other matches – you are as rare as unicorn droppings”

I share my name with a German-born UK motivational speaker – and his e-mail is mine with the first initial last instead of first. It has caused some confusion.

I’m lucky; I’m friends with Jimmy Johnson, James Taylor’s bass player; he says that yes, it does confuse people who equate the name with a cartoonist, a football coach, a racy-car driver, or a Muscle Shoals studio guitarist – and promoters have noted him in promo literature with bio of the Chicago blues guitarist.

I’ve been dead for two years.

So I had never googled my name. Did so. I am dead. We only show up in obituaries.

So… in the middle is someone being arrested for being the head of a university math department…?

They must live in Florida….

Sometimes it best not to know everything….

I share my name with a former porn star (OK, maybe just a personality, I don’t know how well known she was) and a congress woman.

So much to live up to or live down.

I guess an imaginary cartoon character is in the middle.

Well, I heard of one down at the vegetable factory who wanted to put his willy in the Pickle Slicer.

When I google my name, there are no other people with my last name except family.It’s a rather unique last name.

I searched Google for people with my name (not a common one), and found several obituaries. However, like Mark Twain, rumors of my death were greatly exaggerated.

Just googled my name. Most of the results are about me plus a lawyer in New Hampshire and one obituary. Luckily, the deceased “me” spelled her first name the other way.

I googled “Earl Picke,” and Wikipedia corrected me to “Earl Pickles.” In that article, it shows an old comic that explains Earl and Opal’s first date. They went to Brigham Young University together.

My word for them is doppelnyms!

I just googled my name. There are a surprising number of us. It is not a common name. Someone with my name (that I had never heard of) died nearby in 2019.