Pickles by Brian Crane for March 13, 2019

When you reach the age where you’ve seen every “Murder, She Wrote” ten times… yet the murderer is always a surprise.

cannot teach an old dog new tricks

I don’t need that fancy-shmancy, la-de-da, e-lec-tronic garbage! Just get me a set of rabbit ears and some tin foil!!!

Come on Earl, stop being an old fuddy-duddy and give it a try. You might like it !

the day you stop learning is the day you start dying

I can’t blame Earl! Enough is enough! What other fandangled contraption will they come out with next….cant keep up….lol

I bet he would love “Father Brown,” or “Hinterland.”

With my Dad, we (meaning my sister who has the best penmanship) just wrote down the instructions and he was able to do it on his own!

I’m so proud of my Dad. At 76 he went out, bought his first computer, and learned to use it on his own.

Nothing more frustrating than to be watching a Netflix movie streaming and the internet signal drops and you have to start over and fast-forward to where you think you were in the story.

Netflix has become a liberal stronghold. I dropped them too.

Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, …is it any wonder old people get confused?

How can I get in touch with Sylvia? I"d like her to show ME.

A day or two ago I mentioned I had a recipe for lasagna made in a slow cooker. Somebody asked me to post it, but I can’t remember who comic or who it was. If you go to Allrecipes.com and search for “Easy Slow Cooker Lasagna” it is there. The only change I made was to use a package of thawed chopped spinach in place of the Swiss chard. Enjoy!

My father was a journalist and a writer. He tapped out forty books on his manual typewriter…with two index fingers, no less. My brother, thinking he’d bring dad into the modern world, bought him a word processor for his eighty something birthday and tried to teach him how to use it. After my brother left, he put it back in the box and hid it in his closet. Same thing happened with the snow blower we bought him for Christmas ( without the box) ( or the closet). An article about him in some rag or another mentioned that the reporter had been served coffee made in an old fashioned percolator. LUDDITES UNITE!

No, but you can pay for some, just ask Kraft and Trump

I’ve had a $60 Netflix gift card for over 2 years that I’ve yet to activate. I keep thinking that when I sit down long enough to watch something, I’ll learn how it works. But I’m too busy DOING things to stop and WATCH things. I just retired and don’t envision sitting anytime soon. Someday I might not have any option but to sit.

I love Netflix!

We tried the Netflix 30-day trial. We couldn’t find anything we really wanted to watch. They sure have changed from the DVD days when you could find practically every movie ever released.

DON’T DO IT! I got Netflix a couple of months ago and can’t stop watching it…I may need to do a stint in rehab soon…

It is liberating to stream programs without commercials. But without them, how would Earl know which medication he needs but isn’t taking.

“I can’t already not do all I intended to not do.”

I am ever so glad I don’t own a television.

The only thing I ever really miss is the newest Doctor Who.

C’mon Earl……are you older than me? I’m 66 and just bought a smart TV…….it’s fantastic!

Earl probably knows he needs account with monthly payments.

Amazon Prime is easier to find good movies on. I use both but Netflix is harder to search.

Does she pay the subscription?

A-literates are that way. More of them than illiterates in this backwards barbaric society we live in.

I didn’t even realize I had a “smart tv” for several months. Then it took more time to learn how to access Netflix! Old age is a bummer sometimes!

Don’t ask him. Just pull up one of his favorite TV shows or movies, and he’ll be hooked on commercial free TV in no time. Then he’ll be begging you to show him how to make it work!

I think he just wants some help getting his rabbit ears hooked up.