Pickles by Brian Crane for April 13, 2024

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    Pluto  7 months ago

    So, the one time Earl is helping out, and Opal is complaining?

    Oh, what a world

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member 7 months ago

    Agree, I think almost every service made us do that in basic training, you only get so much space! (Army, Navy, AF etc)

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    oldthang  7 months ago

    I’ve never heard that before—is Earl ahead of the internet?

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    yoey1957  7 months ago

    Being in a long term marriage allows you to find what annoys your spouse, then using it strategically.

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    maureenmck Premium Member 7 months ago

    I never imagined I’d be getting useful household tips from Earl!

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  7 months ago

    Tradition versus forward thinking.

    Forward thinking is a traditional thing.

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    Zykoic  7 months ago

    When I was a bachelor I had two piles of clothes and towels. One dirty, one washed.

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    Cornelius Noodleman  7 months ago

    I just wad everything up and throw it in a drawer.

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    californiamonty  7 months ago

    Argh! I have never liked “tradition” as the answer to why people do something. My response is: “It used to be traditional to kill the first-born; you were the first-born, right?” To date, only two people to whom I’ve said that have gotten the joke.

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    SteveHL  7 months ago

    Well, now that Opal has started singing the score of Fiddler on the Roof, will Earl follow with “If I Were a Rich Man”?

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    Kwen  7 months ago

    I’ve been told this but can’t get my mind around this.. (as long as you fold according to your closet dimensions like Earl was reminded yesterday). How could volume vary? Could a mathematician help me?

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    DavidWilliams1  7 months ago

    if I were a high-net-worth individual . . .

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    iggyman  7 months ago

    I do mine the traditional way!

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    iggyman  7 months ago

    You’re on a roll, Earl!

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    sandpiper  7 months ago

    She’s just viewed Fiddler on the Roof. That’s Tevye’s key song

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    MY DOG IS MY CO PILOT  7 months ago

    Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.

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    basspro  7 months ago
    “Fiddler.”
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    WaitingMan  7 months ago

    “It’s tradition.” What people say when they’re getting ready to do something terrible.

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    [Traveler] Premium Member 7 months ago

    I remember a story where a woman always cut off the end of a roast before cooking it. Her husband asked her why she did that and the answer was because her mom had always did it. He asked why she did it. The woman didn’t know so she called her mom. Mom replied “because it wouldn’t fit in her pan without cutting.”

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    Ol' me  7 months ago

    That doesn’t really make sense. Think of it this way. If you place cubic-shaped items together, like boxes, they fit together tightly so there are no spaces, If you place cylinders together, there are spaces. Wasted space. But I’m only an engineer, so what do I know?

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    ThreeDogDad Premium Member 7 months ago

    My wife rolls the towels now. I asked her why, and she replied, “ME — SEE — ON — TIKTOK! MUST — ROLL — TOWELS!”

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    dac2404  7 months ago

    If towels are a metaphor, Pearl just put her finger on the basis of religion.

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    [Unnamed Reader - b66f38]  7 months ago

    Impossible, cubes fit mutually, rolls don’t.

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    jango  7 months ago

    Think I’m gonna roll another one. Just like the other one….Don’t bogart that joint, my friend…

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    xyzwriter48  7 months ago

    Earl’s right. I roll our towels. It’s a Navy thing. More stuff into a small space.

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    royq27  7 months ago

    …and now we have a musical…

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    magicwalnut Premium Member 7 months ago

    Wow, Earl! I’m going to have to try that!

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    Grace's Border Security & Duct Tape  7 months ago

    A hundred years of tradition, unhampered by progress.

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    tremaine53  7 months ago

    Tradition = Peer Pressure from Dead People

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member 7 months ago

    Evidently, Earl is not a fiddler on the roof?

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    zeexenon  7 months ago

    Sorry, The Mama, the Mama! Tradition! The Mama, the Mama! Tradition,! but Tevye already has the copyright.

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    ladykat  7 months ago

    It’s a good way to store towels if you have a lot of them. I only have a few, so they live on my towel rack.

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    MichaelD Premium Member 7 months ago

    Hand that woman a fiddle and a shawl.

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    IndyW  7 months ago

    We always roll our clothes that way when packing for the motorcycle trips. You can pack a lot in then saddle bags that way.

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    ArtShapiro.  7 months ago

    So is there an alternate solution for fitted bottom sheets, which I find absolutely impossible to neatly fold or store?

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    oish  7 months ago

    And now that Opal’s here

    And so I roll my final towel

    My friend I’ll make it clear

    I’ll state my case, which brought a scowl

    The hamper basket’s full

    I folded each and every which-way

    But still she’ll just get pissed

    And do it HER way

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    Joan Tinnin Premium Member 7 months ago

    Opal, shut up! Quit nitpicking

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    wildlandwaters  7 months ago

    “do you love meee??”…“I suppose I dooo!”……

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    carlsonbob  7 months ago

    We roll ours as well. It does save space.

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    Elder Lee Fox  7 months ago

    Was Opal singing a song from ‘Fiddler on the Roof’?

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    ANIMAL  7 months ago

    He’s JUST trying to be HELPful….. (sure)

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    cemunsey Premium Member 7 months ago

    Tradition….peer pressure from dead people….

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    Saurischia  7 months ago

    I roll my towel, handtowel, washcloth sets and store them in an old-fashioned steamer trunk. They are easier to store and pull out that way.

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    Mike Baldwin creator 7 months ago

    Hard to believe Opal didn’t know Earl was a card carrying member of The Society of Towel Rollers.

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    eced52  7 months ago

    We used to roll our t-shirts, socks, and towels in the Army.

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    zarilla  7 months ago

    I think Earl is still trying to ensure she doesn’t ask him to do anything around the house anymore.

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    Teto85 Premium Member 7 months ago

    Rolling saves space allowing the cats to have another place to sleep.

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    Quentin1992  7 months ago

    I’ve read that.

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    cafed00d Premium Member 7 months ago

    Ah, if I were a rich man…

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    tammyspeakslife Premium Member 7 months ago

    ..torments my heart.

    tradition

    Keeps us apart..

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    mistercatworks  7 months ago

    You find all kinds of really marginally useful ideas on the Internet. No one is going to mention how all the towels will roll off the shelf when you open the cabinet. Oh, no.

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    kathleenhicks62  7 months ago

    Mother & grandmother could never agree so I do things how I want!

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    cracker65  7 months ago

    Not only can you roll towels. When you pack your bags to go on vacation, if you roll your clothes, they fit better in the suitcase.

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    daleandkristen  7 months ago

    Oy. Let’s dance…….

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    KEA  7 months ago

    okay… now I have Fiddler on the Roof playing in my head

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    jmcguire  7 months ago

    Aunty Acid said it best aunty-acid 2024/03/23

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    Kidon Ha-Shomer  7 months ago

    And now I can’t get Topol out of my ear, Fiddler on the Roof, oy vey

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    Michael McKown Premium Member 7 months ago

    Straight out of Fiddler on the Roof!

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    j.painterjones  7 months ago

    My daughter taught ME to roll towels,and rolling clothes, too, when packing your suitcase! Keeps them neater.

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    mac04416  7 months ago

    Tradition! Now I have ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ song in my head. Oy vay!

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