Pickles by Brian Crane for November 22, 2014

That was tearable.

Wonder how many rolls he goes through in a week?

51 years ago today on my BD all us kids got sent homeearly after the shooting in Dallas.

We got sent home too, but I didn’t know why until I got home and saw my mother in a frenzy.

It was patched through the PA system of our school and then we were all sent home early(not that any of us 6th and 7th graders really knew what was happening even watching the TV later that day & evening).

Well…the only thing worth saving in the paper is the comics… The rest is an insult to toilet paper…

Country folks use Sears catalogues.

I was in Germany and was told by a German. That’s when I learned German has different words for “shot” and “shot to death”.

Yesterday I saw my first paper newspaper in years. I was shocked they had reduced the page size to about 3/4 of what it was.

I wasn’t born until "70, so I have no emotional recall of Kennedy. I should have one for the Challenger. I would have been 13, but I don’t remember it at all. Maybe it happened during one of our 4 moves that year. Even though it shouldn’t have affected me at all, Princess Diana dying made me cry. I was at work, delivering pizzas and heard it on the radio. I went back to the store to do dishes and started crying for no bloody reason. It was weird.

I also remember Elvis dying. I was 7 & didn’t really “get” it, but I was aware that AFN played all Elvis for a while. (We were stationed in Germany at the time)

Earl’s on a roll.

I remember the great corncob shortage of ’52.

Most of these comments have nothing to do with the toon…

That’s about all today’s newspapers are good for!

The Times they are a changing.

J. Short: For the worse. Can you imagine today’s NYT publishing the Pentagon Papers, or WaPo permitting WoodStein? The torture report is still locked up.

At least Earl didn’t have to resort to corn cobs in an outhouse. And I’m not sure how newspapers compare to Sears and Roebuck or Montgomery Wards catalogues. Sign of a privileged life: I never had to find out any of that stuff.

Nowadays it’ll be mobile phones.xxx

Anybody know why there is no cartoon for Sunday, Nov. 23?

Seems this happened a couple weeks ago or so. By Monday, the Sunday strip had shown up. No explanations.

http://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/pickles/s-1586604?print

Where’s Sunday’s Pickles????

THANKS! It worked really well. Never did show up otherwise.