Pickles by Brian Crane for November 26, 2018

Even though it is Nelson speaking in the first panel, the balloon doesn’t make it appear that way.

oh, Opal, now you’re just humiliating Earl

Well, that’s all probably true of most of us.

“Are you sure about that, David?”

“I’m always sure… even when I’m wrong.”

“As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know. " — Donald Rumsfeld

Well if Earl said it …. then it must be true …nod ,nod ,wink ,wink !

Opal is one of the best at dealing out insults.

I may not always be right, but I’m NEVER wrong!

Earl s having a conversation with himself.

And Opal is johnny-on-the-spot to make sure that Nelson doesn’t respect his grandfather.

Earl is often wrong, but never in doubt. That’s why Opal’s middle name is “Sockratease”.

just looking at the dog’s reaction in the final panel….

Opal don’t harsh on my mellow.

It’s that third one that gets you in the most trouble.

‘It ain’t necessarily so.’

Sounds familiar.

“What I learned I have forgotten, what I know I have guessed. -Machivelli

“No one asked you!”

As you get older…

If I knew now… what I knew then… I’d be a lot smarter now.

I think maybe somebody later changed the texts or order and gist of the conversation.

Being older means you lose your brain cells.

If Earl wasn’t retired, I’d suggest he get a job at the white house.

“Quiet in the Peanut Gallery.”

Even a genius doesn’t know everything he doesn’t know and a lot that isn’t necessarily so.