Pickles by Brian Crane for August 27, 2013

Like Earl has been doing for years.

The biggest problem – not just with Americans, but world wide – is we have forgotten to laugh at ourselves. It’s easy to laugh at others but to truly live, we have to be able to laugh at our own foibles. A little self-deprecation would go a long way !

If you’re not doing anything stupid, you’re not trying hard enough!

LIKE SITTING ON THE ARM OF THE CHAIR …DIDN’T YOUR MOTHER TEACH YOU ANYTHING

“I have not failed. I have simply found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

I let other people do the stupid and laugh at them.

Sometimes I’ll remember something I did years and years ago, something that seemed at the time incredibly stupid and embarrassing. Time has soothed its sting. And I laugh out loud that I choked on the memory for so long, and realize probably nobody remembers it but me. And with that, I have given it a virtual Heimlich Maneuver (which is a copyrighted phrase, by the way). Life is absurd, and I’ve done my fair part in contributing to its absurdity.

I do a lot of the stupid things that other people laugh at.It is good to have a purpose in life.

I completely agree Earl!!! I have a wonderful friend that can imitate me to a tee…I laugh so hard I literally can’t breathe. I try to teach my daughter to laugh at herself…it’s the best medicine.

No problem… I was the class clown.

“But you’ll have to wait until you get married to know that you’re doing stupid things.”

I could laugh all day long.

Or, he’s not trying hard enough. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdog38A8EvI

Sighhh… Don’t encourage him, Earl.

LOL xxx

remember going through the drive-through with a car load of your friends in either high school or college and laughing too hard to order? well after many years we have all retired, and last night we tried to do the drive through at McD’s and all totally lost it – we ordered 38 $.49 cheeseburgers…..

Aha! Now I know why I do so many stupid things. Laughter is therapeutic. I didn’t do stupid things I’d have died from stress years ago.

Why are they sitting on the chair like that?

I don’t laugh near as often as I used too – need to work on that!

this is great! but not for my kids…..

He could look in the mirror and laugh at the cow-pie on his head!!!

Yesssssss!!! Fantastic philosophy, Earl!

“Son”?