Pickles by Brian Crane for August 21, 2024

Do you want him to stop talking, because that is how you get him to stop talking.

Yogi: “You sweat less than any fat girl I ever danced with.”

Well, Nelson – these squishy arms are too squishy to be making any more cookies for you.

I always thought the saying was,“If you can’t say anything nice about someone, come over and sit by me.”

He doesn’t know it’s not nice. He probably likes to squish her squishy arms.

“Grandma, is there a squeaky toy in there?”

I’m reminded of this moldy old joke

Mom: “You must say something NICE to our visitor”

Kid: “…”

Kid: “Y’know, for a fat lady, you sure don’t sweat much!”

He’s too young to realize it’s not a good thing to say…

⠄⠄⠄and your butt is nice and big too

Nelson is just making a little boy’s innocent observation!

Get her angry, Nelson. She’ll wave her arms while yelling, and the arm flap breeze will be SO refreshing in this humidity (OK, I grossed myself out)!

Nelson meant well!

Thus sayeth the Queen of mean-spirted quips! Practice what you preach, Opal!

She has a lot of squishy aspects.

I used to think when ladies got older, they grew big arm muscles.

TRY AGAIN

Growing up we had a slightly chubby foster boy. Whenever we would tickle him, he would say “leave my fat alone”.

He may have meant it in a nice way!

Bingo wings. That’s where that loose, floppy skin flaps like wings when you raise your arms when shouting “Bingo!”

Opal obviously believes in, “Do as I say, not as I do.”

My dad once told me I had “nice fat” arms. He meant it as a compliment, it just came out wrong.

Kids say directly what’s on their minds without the sugar coating of social niceties.

He wasn’t trying to be mean, he is just stating an observation. I do agree with her sentiment though!

Nelson should be eligible to skip a grade in school.

I have nice, squishy arms too, Nelson. Opal, nothing to be ashamed of.

We call them Hello Bettys. The bottom sides wave too when she is waving hello.

Kids, they see it, and they say it, just as simple as it appears to them. It is refreshing to hear their plain observations sometimes.

I almost spit out my bite of egg!

“If you can’t say something nice about someone, come and sit by me.”

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

It looks like the kid is wiser than the grandma.

Attaboy Nelson…….atta boy!

Are you part flying squirrel grandma? Can you use those soft flabby arms to glide in the air?

nelson will be “squishy-armed” before he knows what happened.

Nelson, I call them boobs. One-upmanship of Arnold’s Total Recall topless lady.

Aren’t squishy arms a requirement for grandmas?

Granny needs to remember this conversation when the kid is 10 and doesn’t want to go spend time at cranky grandmas house.

This boy takes after his grandpa- just try to make him stop talking!

“If you can’t say somethin’ nice, don’t say nothin’ at all.”