Pickles by Brian Crane for August 21, 2013

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    just sayin  about 11 years ago

    Wake up! Opal your dreaming again…;)

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    junemmoffatt  about 11 years ago

    Is that Mark Trail?

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    Llewellenbruce  about 11 years ago

    Or is that Steve Canyon?

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    Linguist  about 11 years ago

    I’m going with Mark Trail. And if Earl were daydreaming back, maybe Opal would look like Brenda Starr ? Is that strip still in existence ?

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    pcolli  about 11 years ago

    Well it’s not Chas Sexington. (Simpsons)

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    jnik23260  about 11 years ago

    It’s Mark Trail, and Opal would be spending a lot of time alone in the woods while he went around punching out guys with facial hair!

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    El Ctrosan  about 11 years ago

    That is Leopold’s dad.

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    edclectic  about 11 years ago

    Life with Earl is like an unmarked trail.

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    pelican47  about 11 years ago

    This reminds me of an eyeglasses commercial that I used to see a year or two ago.

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    PuckerbrushCity  about 11 years ago

    I’m going with Mark Trail…and I agree with jnik23260, that Mr. Trail doesn’t spend a heck of a lot of time with Cherry in Lost Forest…OTOH, maybe that appeals to Opal.

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    orinoco womble  about 11 years ago

    I spent a long train journey yesterday playing this game. Unless you’re reasonably happy with your life as it is, don’t try this at home. Fortunately I am.

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    ewalnut  about 11 years ago

    I would not have expected Opal to be hot for Mark Trail.

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    cvdemers  about 11 years ago

    Mark Trail represents Opal’s “Road Not Taken.” She chose Earl, “…and that has made all the difference.” Thank you, Robert Frost.

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    OldTimer62  about 11 years ago

    I’d definitely say Mark Trail. I know what Gil Thorp looks like (lol).

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    Darryl Heine  about 11 years ago

    In this 2009 rerun, Earl turns into Mark Trail.

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    sbchamp  about 11 years ago

    It’s my life. I’ll remember it any way I want…

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    GROG Premium Member about 11 years ago

    If I were Earl, I’d probably be seeing Brrom Hilda. And that’s no fantasy.

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    frightenup Premium Member about 11 years ago

    LOL!! Love it!! You can mark my trail anytime, sir.

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    Mopman  about 11 years ago

    I know Gil Thorp. I work for Gil Thorp. That daydream is no Gil Thorp.

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    jtviper7  about 11 years ago

    That Superman guy sure gets round.

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    Willow Mt Lyon  about 11 years ago

    Now he is 60 pounds heavier, dyes his gray hair to try looking younger, wears Coke bottle glasses, and never spent time with his three wives who have divorced him. Count your blessings, Opal. Earl’s not as bad as him.

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    Perkycat  about 11 years ago

    This was my husband when we got married – now he is Earl. I, of course, look the same as the day we got married.

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    coz69  about 11 years ago

    Perhaps that was Earl way back when they got married.

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    Number Three  about 11 years ago

    “Huh? Did you say something?”

    LOL xxx

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    mackenzie0158  about 11 years ago

    Dream on Opal. Look in a mirror, then think again.

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    rhonda Premium Member about 11 years ago

    Different. Not necessarily better. Very sweet!

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    jimguess  about 11 years ago

    How about Rex Morgan, MD … ?

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    Mopman  about 11 years ago

    Now that I think about it, it’s supposed to be Bob Barker.

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    unca jim  about 11 years ago

    If it goes into the stew pot, it’s ‘game’. The later TV hunting shows now refer to it as ‘harvest’. All in the interest of caving to the citified sorts that are deeply concerned about just about everything hurtful to those cute things that aren’t harming anyone, and we should just let them run, jump and play…. Just ONCE, I’d like to see a random sample of these sorts tossed into the Maine woods like their ancestors, to see them survive (not with 3 million bucks worth of TV cameras, helicopters, and young ‘idea-men’ just off-frame) and see howthey come out of the affair after six months of Real “Survival!”

    Sheesh….

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    TIMH  about 11 years ago

    Absolutely the modern, pc, pipe-less Mark Trail.

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    JP Steve Premium Member about 11 years ago

    I remember Mark Trail from the 1950’s. He could have been a good crush for young Opal. He might even be too old!

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  about 11 years ago

    “Killing a living creature that cannot defend itself against such an attack? You don’t call that murder?”-Nah, I’ve killed many mosquitoes and never considered it murder even though they were defenseless living creatures. I save that term for illegal killing of a human (or intelligent alien life form but that’s just me).

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