Pickles by Brian Crane for October 22, 2024

well, Earl⠄⠄⠄answer the sea hag

Earl: Could you alter my surroundings to make them more nutritious? – Opal: Not without making a mess that you’ll clean up.

No wonder marriages are on the decline

Or like a sponge or fungi.

Nope. The recliner chair is your barnacle

No, not at all. Just at mostly.

It must not be a very appetizing dinner!

If you only feed him at the table you will limit his sedentary lifestyle. Unless he stays at the table in which case you may have to move the feeding spot.

Earl’s progressing from sedentary to parasitical?

Sea worm.

He saves nutrients in his mustache. Alas, I’m follicaly poor and must consume food orally.

it all depends on whether there are zucchini for dinner…

Since plants, which don’t move, eventually turn into coal, are they sedentary or sedimentary?

Opal has a good sense of humor!

Considering all the crumbs he generates eating snacks while in that chair, he probably could absorb nutrients from his surroundings.

Considering her weight, Opal is pretty sedimentary too.