Pickles by Brian Crane for February 21, 2014

You’re quite a sucker for grandfather jokes, Nelson.

It looks like Earl’s chair is resting atop kumquats.

Ah yes, Kumquat and Rutabaga. He’s always getting those two mixed up.

A prune is not a vegetable. A cabbage is a vegetable.(if you don’t get this quote you are much younger than me)

Another trip to the greengrocer & rutabaga for dinner!!!

Barnum was right

This kid is dumber than a box of rocks.

You look more like a 1950 Studebaker. But considering that you are extinct, I don’t blame you for trying go vegan.

Two points less IQ and he’d be a peanut… ( after it was shelled ).

Best Grandpa ever !!

Very cute story line lol!

Glad we Cleared that up

Just shows you how much grandchildren trust and believe their grandparents. It’s a heavy responsibility but you have to have some fun with them too.

Thirdguy: 1953.

Actually, the Studebaker and the AMC Hornet were the two best cars ever made. The public prefers sex and sizzle.

I had to look up just what a rutabaga was. We have a different word for the animal.

Love it!

xxx

Large kumquat!

Some days you get peanuts./ Some days you get shells./ Today has been a shell of a day.

I had an uncle who looked like the way Earl is drawn. He lived to be 95 and he could tell some ‘big ones’! He’d tickle you to death! Earl really makes me think about him when I read this strip everyday.

Anybody rember Disney’s “Red Hot Rutabaga Rag?”

Yes a Rutabaga,you have to look out for those things.

what about kiwis? There’s the fruit, the bird and the New Zealanders. :)

Thirdguy: I had use of my parents’ 1950. It had a divided horizontal opening between the hood and grill which was eliminated by the taller grill in the 1953 version. In 1956-7, its sizzle turned to fizzle and it developed a tendency to totally stall out, but she married me anyway, and still are in spite of “Trikephalus”.

When produce shopping, we like to play “what’s the ugliest thing for sale in this store?” For six years straight, the undefeated champion has been celeriac.