Pickles by Brian Crane for July 16, 2024

My mother and my uncle mailed each other the same chewed wad of gum for decades.

She will still send it, keeps her busy

I love this one. Thank you

She read yesterday’s comments!!

“Now cut that out!” Jack Benny

Oh brother

Maybe should you better take a chair, Earl… that could take some time.

All this giving thanks and it isn’t even close to Thanksgiving!

I’m sorry I thanked you.

Note to follow.

And….here we go again!!

Here we go ….

This, as the price of first-class stamps just increased (again), this time to 73¢ .

Earl figured that out himself, no thanks to Opal.

Chip and Dale!

my in-laws and our family all phone each other regularly. my sister’s family hasn’t so much. she hasn’t spoken to me, not even xmas cards, in years, and i haven’t a clue why. i even accidentally learned her daughter married—new years, 2023. count your blessings.

Shades of Alphonse and Gaston.

Thank yous are important!

Hey!! “Thank you” is a Canadian thing!! We say it all the time even for the idiot who cut us off in traffic. Better to say that than pull a gun and shoot the guy like one moron at the border told me he would do.

Please…….. STOP..!!!!!!!!!!! (thank you)

Anyone remember the old cartoon of the two rodents that were overly polite?

Pickles: Canadian Edition

Coincidentally, I was watching an episode of Everyone loves Raymond, yesterday. Marie keeps reminding newly wed Amy to send out thank you notes. More MIL abuse.

In Japan, a thank you gift should be one half the cost of the gift you originally received.

This is called okaeshi (お返し) which translates as ‘return gift.’

Interestingly, okaeshi can also be translated as ‘revenge.’

..passive aggressive one-upmanship..

As someone who spent most of his working life programming computers, this arc makes me very uncomfortable. Anything to do with endless loops gives me the heebie-jeebies.

The old Groucho routine…..thank you….no thank you…….etc!

You’re welcome.

By golly! He was right!

Only if you want constant communication with some one you don’t care about. Cousins are marginal.

She’s attempting the original motive for internet messaging.

When they were kids, my dad and a friend passed a valentine back and forth for a few years.

than’gew⠄⠄⠄ than’gew, vurry much

— ⭒Elvis ⭒

Here we go ’round the mulberry bush, so early in the morning.

You hear it all the time on radio interviews (and probably TV and elsewhere), dueling “thank you”s. The host thanks the guest for appearing. The guest says “no, thank you.” I find this incredibly rude,and so common. The guest is not accepting the thanks of the host for appearing on their show. My mother taught me the proper response to “thank you” was “you’re welcome.”