Pickles by Brian Crane for June 11, 2024

Forty nine years ago a female friend told me I needed a mustache to look older. It’s probably no longer necessary, but I haven’t shaved it since!

What is Nelson going to say?

What is Roscoe going to think?

I thought this looked like a repeat. Panel says copyright 2002.

She was a bare-faced liar.

Years? I seem to recall a relatively recent arc not that long ago where Earl shaved off his mustache on purpose.

I have had a mustache since college but I shaved my off once and my wife made me grow it back and said she wouldn’t kiss a naked lip.

I grew a beard in 1976 because I had no chin.

I shaved it off in 1981 and I had two no chins.

I grew it back and have it still . . .

Thumbhead! Thumbhead in the way he moves…

Some years ago, cut off my pony tail and donated it to Locks of Love. Then I had my head shaved. I asked Spouse if I should also shave off my beard and mustache, and she said, “No! You’d look like an egg!”

When I shaved my beard off, my son’s dog came around the corner and stopped. He stared and stared. Then he sniffed and was wagging his tail.

One afternoon I went to a barber out of town. I had entered the shop with two eye brows. When I left I had one and a half!

You look younger when you smile. And you just might (mentally) feel younger as well. I do.

Good one Opal!

So now how is he going to ‘dust cookies’.

He looks YOUNGER.

There ya go! It’s a repeat, but many of us have never seen this. Please, NO SPOILERS!!

Opal is a beach.

Simple solution … trim his old hairpiece to fit and dye it grey.

What about the spider that made Opal scream ?

Now 70, I had a mustache since high school. Just once, I shaved it off in my fifties and my own mother didn’t recognized me.

It’ll grow back, vuys!

Years ago, I had a mustache but I worked and attended meetings with guys and almost all of them smoked, I was a non- smoker. My mustache frequently reeked so I shaved it off.

Both my father and my husband have had mustaches as long as I have known them. Hubby has grown a beard, but he is part Cherokee, so the beard is SO scrawny. I’ve suggested several times that he shave it off, but all I get is funny looks.

I knew someone that had a beard for most of his adult life. He decided one day that he’d shave it off. He hadn’t thought it through fully as his face was tanned, but his beard line wasn’t. It looked so funny. Fortunately he grew it back quite quickly.

I cannot imagine being married to such a mean wife.

I’ve had a beard/mustache for over 50 years. I shaved it off once just to show my wife what I looked like without it. She told me it felt like she was having an affair. I grew it back – immediately.

I find that most men look nicer with some facial hair. There are, however, a select few that do best with a clean shave. Never know til you see both!

Not nice, Opal!

“….and THAT’S through the eyes of love.”

She should like his look, since he looks like a bald version of her…

I stand corrected…. (actually, I’m sitting down)

Does that mean we match?

I had a mustache when my wife and we met and started dating. She made a comment “I wonder how you would look without the mustache?”. I offered to shave it and she said “after the wedding”. So…. the next morning (after the wedding), I shaved it off while she was still in bed. She came in as I was washing off the shaving cream and started yelling at me. Apparently I wasn’t supposed to ACTUALLY shave it off. I might have shaved it off only 2 other times in the last 30 years and that was only for one shaving.

Earl needs his moustache back.

I haven’t seen my upper lip since the Carter administration.

Whereas Opal looks like a used Q-Tip.

Don’t always go with (or even express) your immediate feelings.

Sometimes it takes time to get used to change.

Great thing about comix is that he can have the ’stach back tomorrow.

Wonder what these two ever saw in each other way back when?

My partner shaved his beard/stash off when he was out of town visiting his mother. Almost didn’t unlock the driveway gate. Only thing that let him in was I recognized his dog.

Which you married, “Dorkess”. sheesh Opal!

That’s hilarious! Whenever I shave off my facial hair my family doesn’t want to come near me.

I had a mustache for 30 years because my wife wouldn’t let me get rid of it. I finally shaved it when we learned to scuba dive so my mask wouldn’t leak.

She was the reason this whole mustache thing happened and now she doesn’t like it. Face it, the old man will never get a break.

I was once asked to shave mine, so I did. She didn’t like the look so I grew it back

Tom Selleck did the same thing years before he was Thomas Magnum, and he still gives me a thrill with his on! I love mustaches.

Why cultivate on your face what grows wild on your a $$?

At least he’s got the fringe. I’ve got nothing, and I always say I look like a thumb with ears.

I grew a mustache to make me look younger, because I have skimpy facial hair.

I don’t critique my spouse’s facial hair. In return, he doesn’t comment about how he prefers my hair long. Every couple has to find what works for them.

I didn’t even recognize him at first. Makes him look younger.

Earl she yanked your chain….again!

Without the facial hair he resembles actor Wallace Shawn. Both have weak chins.

He looks like an older Adam from Adam@Home.

Dave Barry says black men can carry off the shaved-head look.

White men just look like thumbs.

Would he ever divorce her? He could do so much better.

He looks like Paul Giamatti on Billions after he shaved his goatee for some reason.

As a certifiable geezer, I am always amazed and flattered that so many attractive young women love my handlebar mustache. Fifty years ago, it might have led to a closer relationship. Now it is just a bit of momentary joy as I plod on toward senility.

A big thumb with a big wart

funny…a friend of mine was shaving one day and got to day dreaming. next thing you know, half his moustache was gone! so he shaved the rest off and started all over from scratch!!

My Father-in-Law was a Training Instructor in the Air Force. One day, he was instructing his troops on the importance of being aware of what they were doing, at all times. Apparently, that night, he didn’t sleep well, and when shaving, the next morning, accidentally shaved off half his mustache, but wasn’t aware of it, until one of the Airmen pointed it out.As sharp-witted has he was, he said he did it as an example, to see if anyone was paying attention.

Friend at work got a rash and had to shave his beard. Turns out he had no chin.

Last time I shaved with no mustache was 22 May 1985.