Pickles by Brian Crane for June 10, 2024

Close shave

If you are lucky, it is a spider that can’t crawl out of the bathtub, because those are easy to kill or capture.

Oh, Earl!

Earl’s expression in panel four is hilarious! I can’t stop laughing!

Sorta looks like Burt Reynolds, only different.

I bet the spider screamed too if he saw her naked.

now there’s a caterpillar in the sink

40ish years ago I shaved off 1/2 my mustache. I had to tell the wife before she noticed. Still married after 42 years.

Earl might just as well get rid of the other spider or rest of that spider under his nose.

How rude. Opal, wait until the spider finishes ITS shower. It was there first!

OOPS!

Who thinks Opal would look good with a ‘mohawk’? Seems like fair recompense.

Scream like that when Earl is dragging a razor across his face, and you might also see blood in the sink.

If what she saw was gray, it was probably some of Earl’s hair. And if it was some other color, it was probably just one of Muffin’s hairballs.

I saw a wolf spider in the bathtub the other day. Those things are huge!

Did that once many years ago with an electric shaver. Shaved it all off and it grew back.

Now he has a choice, Either shave the rest or go ‘half-stashed’ until it evens out again.

Can’t wait to see tomorrow’s episode.

Well, Earl, now you’ve done it. YIKES! Now Opal is going to put up a fuss. Bet she won’t make him go to the fabric store for a while. Hahaha!

And, I bet tomorrow it’ll be back to normal…… Ahhhhhhh the magic of cartoons.

Will Earl’s moustache grow back by tomorrow?

Spiders. Meh. In my family, it’s mainly the men who are afraid of them! The women just scoop the critters up in a jar & carry them outside where they belong.

He might as well just shave off the rest of it.

I played for an outdoor wedding a few years ago. After the wedding, as the guests were eating, the woman behind me let out a huge SCREAM and tossed her plate of food up in the air. She’d seen a daddy-long-legs . . . .

Opal: Hey! What happened to your mustache?

at least he’s not bleeding

I opened the shower curtain and found a giant spider in the tub. She pulled the curtain back shut.

It took me a second to see that Earl had shaved off the left side of his moustache.

Looks like someone’s going to need a little moustache toupée for a couple of weeks.

Well, at least he doesn’t have a cheek flap hanging

If she’d taken the bathrobe off, we would have heard the spider scream. Can they?

Half mustaches, a new trend begins!!

Ha! It suits you, Earl!

Something similar happened to me. About 6AM, I heard this blood curdling scream from the bathroom “There’s a HUGE spider in here”. Got up 1/2 asleep and killed it with a toilet brush. It wasn’t a spider, but a big cricket. Turns out, it was Jiminy Cricket. Now I can’t do anything Disney anymore.

That shrieking trait of SOME women is a learned one from their shrieking mothers. My wife is not afraid of spiders or other insects or snakes. She respects them and takes them outside. With the snakes she has me identify them first, as in Florida we do have some poisonous ones. We allow all the Wolf spiders to remain in the houses, as they do a great job of taking care of other insects.

Glad that only Earl was shown.

Well, will it grow back tomorrow? News at 10.

Oh no! LOL, His face! LOL!!

One the size of a Buick? (like in “Annie Hall”)

HA! Earl SHOULD go without his mustache for awhile to see everyone’s reaction! Cool arc!

that’s why I always close the bathroom door when shaving. years ago while shaving a cat was in the bathroom and jumped up on the sink, bleeding followed (mine) and everyone and everything is now locked out when shaving

I bobbled my trimmer and cut a nice parallel across mustache and figured I’d shave it off and start again. Freaked my wife out and she wouldn’t kiss me until it grew back in.

I absolutely do not understand the concept of finding a little spider, screeching for attention, and expecting someone to respond to the hysterics and come to save you. My state really doesn’t have many venomous spiders. I know them if I see them. If one did show up, I would deal with it. Generally, I just ignore spiders. They eat other insects.

My son came home from school one day and said, “Dad, I learned in school today that a person is never more that 8 foot from a spider.” That’s one bit of info I wished he’d kept to himself.

What’s more useless than half a mustache?

That is some razor!

I appreciate having separate bathrooms.