Pickles by Brian Crane for April 19, 2012

Otherwise Nelson would be stuck on the couchwith Earl all day.

And it took 63 days.

Reviving trains would solve the problems with air travel, road rage and gridlock. The tracks are already there. But perhaps that would make sense, so I don’t think it will happen.

An enemy needn’t bother attempting to disrupt our infrastructure. The state DOTs do a fine job all by themselves.The horror of interstate travel: Road Construction Next 23 miles. Merge Left. etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum.

Nelson, too.

Earl – the human answer to Wikipedia.

I’d feel the same way about Opal. Oddly enough, Earl usually stays and takes the punishment.

I have heard that Hitler developed the autobahn and that is where many of our ideas for the interstate system came from such as the cloverleaf exit.

@Sportymonk: Per Wikipedia: The first cloverleaf interchange patented in the US was by Arthur Hale, a civil engineer in Maryland, on February 29, 1916.23 Several cloverleafs were built in the late 1920s; however, it is unclear which was first.

Obviously, slightly before Hitler came to power.

The New York State thruway was only suppose to have a toll till paid for… That was over 50 years ago.

When built, the inside lane of the Autobahn was reserved for high Nazi officials (Gauleiter or above); during WW-II, they let the SS (but not Wehrmacht) use it too. After the war, that lane had no speed limit and any car being overtakien had to move over. This effectively meant that only war profiteers could afford cars fast enough to use it. The same was done three years ago in Texas as part of Perry’s Nazification project in that cars can only use the inside lane for passing. Technically, the speed limit still applies there, but I never see it enforced except on the other lanes. Sieg heil, y’all.

Good for you Nelson, I hate when people brattle on About brain numbing topics…

" Hey!! trains make way too much sense to be considered……" Okay. Reality check time..Like most of the great infrastructure systems in this country, the rail system was built mostly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And like them, it could never be built now from scratch — it would cost too much for labor, environmental mitigation, and the like. (Please: this is NOT a slam at fair wages or environmental protection. They simply ignored those costs in the past; now we don’t. That’s all.).So why can’t the existing rail system be used now? Because it’s fallen into such a state of disrepair (again, like so much of our infrastructure generally) that the cost of refurbishing it to make rail travel safe and economically competitive would be staggering. Since we’re staggering already, it’s hard to make a good case for it…..It’s fun to pick on unimaginative politicians and bureaucrats, but let’s be real. If something isn’t being done, more often than not it’s for a reason. Not always, it’s true, and not always for a really good reason, but more than you like to think.

Hahahaha!

Well said Nelson.

xxx

Some of the posters here have a little of grandpa in them. :’-)

Love this comic because it hits home. Sorry for those who cannot just enjoy these sweet folks. You will be there some day!!

mysticturner: Oops, valid point. How time passes when you are trying to survive! However they are both puppets of the same master, so what is the practical difference? I haven’t seen Perry trying to change that law. Indeed, more and more variations of the Nürmberg Edicts are passed every two years – which is how often “the only lege we’ve got” meets. Now we have a state rape law – if a woman is raped, the doctor must rape her again with the “wand of shame” to see if the rapist managed to make the rape last nine months. At least they didn’t have the wand in 1930s Germany, but abortion was outlawed.

I think Granpa just wanted to lie down.

who is eisenhower?

umm…’scuze me, my dog needs to go out…….

Amen, Essex!

“Wake up Roscoe, you need to go out, don’t you boy? I said, *DON”T* you!

Good boy.

“Wake up Roscoe, you need to go out, don’t you boy? I said, DON’T you?Good boy.