Pickles by Brian Crane for August 07, 2019

Well, that’s just ducky.

“They know I have bread in my pocket.”

well, at least Earl ain’t limping

Must be the crumbs in my pockets!

They impressed.

Hero worship?

Aflac.

Those aren’t Ducks, Ducks have bills. They look more like pigeons.

Hey! Lorenz got a Nobel for this!

Earl leads the parade.

I’m now picturing a remake of “The Angel and the Badman” cast entirely with ducks.

Well if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck ….

“Introducing our new leader!”

You’re outvoted 5-1 Earl, in favor of waddling

Maybe they mistook him for Rooster Cogburn.

Earl has become The Penguin!

Pilgrims.

The Duke never waddled in his life.

Maybe Earl needs a new hip.

Opal, maybe you are quacking up. Waddle you gonna do about it?

Maybe Earl’s underwear is in a bunch.

They want to be John Wayne’s posse, pilgrim! ;o)

Ummmm I dunno…quack quack..maybe they think I’m their mother….Er. Father

Hemorrhoids?

So. Is that bread in his pocket, or is he happy to see them?

They look more like duckens.

Um, he happened to be in the right place when they hatched?

Is Opal wearing bedroom slippers?

Funny story (and possibly true): toward the end of his life Wyatt Earp moved to Hollywood and acted as a consultant for Westerns (he even once mapped out the gunfight at the O.K. Corral for John Ford, and Ford later used that drawing when filming My Darling Clementine). Earp would reportedly hang out on the sets and shoot the breeze with stagehands and prop men and stuntmen and extras. One of those people was supposedly a young man named Marion Morrison, who changed his name to John Wayne. Wayne, of course, became famous for his Westerns, and supposedly once said, “Earp was the man who had actually done the things in his life that I was trying to do in a movie. I imitated his walk; I imitated his talk."

So Earl imitating Wayne was technically Earl imitating Wayne imitating Earp.

Everybody needs a wingman.

You’d think she knew he has toe syndactyly. Most men would keep secret of swimming racing tricks.

If you walk like a duck and sound like a duck…

They are not following me, they are following you as the Mama Duck.

Earl’s walk isn’t what it’s quacked to be.

Good one, Brian!

The male swagger looks a lot like waddling.