Pickles by Brian Crane for March 31, 2012

You are a wicked man, Earl/

Nelson must of watched “The Wizard of Oz”.

Comics have a strange quality of floating in time, since nobody ages… Earl’s past could belong to my Dad, who would be 95 this year had he made it…And we baby boomers are grandparent age, but I don’t identify with Earl’s generation.I’m not complaining — we all know it’s fiction…. but when I stop to think about it…. I can’t.

BTW Essex, from yesterday….right you are…. the Hawk is my dream car… but I may never get one, so I can’t hold out.If a bulletnose falls into my lap, so to speak, I’ll happily drive it while I’m waiting… :)

I’m not as old as Earl by any means, but I remember when “a dollar’s worth of regular” was about a quarter tank of a Plymouth with rear fins and “rocket flame” tail-lights. (It was second hand, and purple, and known as the Purple Bomb.) These days I bet a dollar’s worth of gas is about a quarter-cup. (I don’t live there, and I can’t drive, so I don’t know this stuff.)

Re, the price of gas. Here in Singapore, one Sing dollar’s worth is equal to about half a liter (or a quart for you non-Metrics ;) ). In my car that’ll take you about seven kilometers (roughly four miles).

I don’t think it’s too far fetched. My Dad wore a fedora when he went out – and that was back in the 60’s. But there were no flying monkeys.

We’ve all lived most of our lives in the past.

sometimes I think the Black and White world of the 50’s and 60’s (as far as prices go) was way better then the 4 color process of today. things just seemed simpler then, but I was just a child then too. I am sure it was just as hard on my parents back then as it is on us now.

I wondered why all the men wore hats in the pics in my parents photo album.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who wishes they had the money they make now back then.

Gasolene was 17 cents a US gallon. We bought Royal Crown cola IF we had a nickle because we got 12 ounces instead of the preferred Cokes 6 oz. Nobody knew they were “poor” because nobody told us we were. Then it all changed, a big damn war started and I (we) got to see a big cruel world.

just because you didn’t see any flying monkeys didn’t mean there weren’t there.

Awwwwwww, Cute!

How old is Nelson now?

xxx

I love this strip. Must be because i can relate to so much of it

In the old days $600 was a lot more than it is now, and cars broke down more. Remember dealing with someone with no answering machine? Calling, waiting, calling again? Whereas now you can leave a message.

The Neil Caffrey character in White Collar can pull off a hat. He looks good.

Yes they wore hats, but at least they knew enough to take them off when they entered a building. Either today’s generation is gender confused or we have a LOT of ugly bearded women.

Elsa wore blue, the Germans wore gray – it is in the dialog.