Pickles by Brian Crane for September 10, 2013

Earl doesn’t have to worry if he has to go. He’sgot his Depends on.

Go Phish ! The P is silent.

“I never drink water. Fish fornicate in it.” — W. C. Fields

Option #6: go in Earl’s hat.

I’m certainly glad that this a familystrip.

He could use the bass room

Next try to get Nelson to take a swim…

another lesson learned, eh, Nelson?!

Water = fish piss.

Strip = familyComments = not so much

At that age, much of a kid’s world information comes from television. If they’re lucky, it’s from Sesame Street. A lot of mine came from cartoons, (“Everything they know about life, they learned from Bugs Bunny,” as quoted from the movie “Network.”); but many delicate subjects, of course, weren’t shown.. If Nelson watches Spongebob Squarepants to get his fish-related information, maybe the “bathroom” subject has come up already – no doubt, in a humorous but highly inaccurate way.

As a little kid, I always wondered what would happen if, while chasing the bad guy, the hero, or one of the posse, really had to go. Also, having grown up around horses, it always amazed me how clean the streets were in a Western movie town and how I never once saw a horse " raise its tail " other than to swat a fly during the show.

It’s called ’ Checking the prop ’…

What always amused me, when I lived in Arizona, was how people would pay for what we would gladly give for free. At the time I was partners in a ranch/riding stable and we kept upwards of twenty to thirty head of horses at times. Folks would drive up to what we called Manure Mountain and pay us for filling trash bags or truck loads of horse manure ( and they provided their own garbage bags ! ). Not only did they pay but usually they did the shoveling.

So THAT’S why people like those crowded chlorinated “cement ponds”!

That’s why I always kept a “Pecan” in my boat. [but it didn’t get used that much because you still lean over the boat to rinse it out]

“They go into the creel after they’ve been caught.”-We never used a creel, usually a live well or a fish stringer, although that seemed cruel too.Nelson could use the inside of the boat and then bail.

“And now you know why we filter our water.”-And just consider what all goes through the filter.-Someone wanted to show how much good chlorination did for sanitizing drinking water by using a number of water systems who drew water from the Great Lakes. Some filtered and chlorinated, some used reverse osmosis and chlorinated. Since reverse osmosis passes absolutely no virus or bacterium, they expected the chlorination to show it did just as good a job of making the water safe.-They checked the local hospitals and looked for signs of intestinal problems caused by NOT killing all the bacteria and viruses, not fatal, just ailments.-Reverse osmosis had something like a quarter as many cases per hundred thousand served as those who depended on filtering and chlorination did.-Moral of the story: DRINK UP something’s gonna kill you eventually anyway.

You catch them, you clean them, you eat them. I’m afraid there are worse things in the water now.

I believe Fields said something like, “…Fish f-f-function in it.”

Ha ha ha EXCELLENT!

I suppose Earl’s response would have to be different if he had a grand-DAUGHTER along…. Though one of the commenters above mentioned having a Pecan on board as well, so maybe that’s how it is done. I live in Montana, where boating on lakes is few and far between, but we have lots of rivers and cricks so the bushes are where we retreat when we’re out fishing. Or hiking.

That was me when I was a kid. At summer camp, I wasn’t about to get in that lake “where all the fish poop”. The staff almost died laughing.