Pickles by Brian Crane for February 06, 2021

You walked right into that one Earl.

Lately, I’ve been putting a stool someplace where I can vacuum and I clip my toenails there.

don’t you just loathe rhetorical questions? (that was also rhetorical)

She was going to tell him, anyway.

“…Besides, I asked what’s WRONG with me, not what are my good points.”

It is like asking someone, “How are you?” and when that person begins to earnestly give you an answer you tune them out. When I was diagnosed with cancer many years ago I would answer that question with, “I have cancer” and then would hear in response, “That’s nice.” Not kidding, :-)

Start listing all her faults. It isn’t a sin to scratch your pubic in public.

Just had to ask huh???

What’s the matter with Earl is that he married that Harridan in the first place!!

I like how, when Tommy Smothers (of the Smother’s Brothers) responded to a rhetorical question from Dick (his brother), Dick explained to him that a rhetorical question doesn’t require an answer. Tommy responded by saying that he was giving “a rhetorical answer. It didn’t require a question.”

She leaves the toilet seat down etcetera…….

You do not put stuff away and you do not pick stuff up when you drop it.

On The View, Whoopi Goldberg sometimes ends her comment(s) saying rhetorically, “Am I Crazy?” – I sometimes think, “Well yeah.” … with what you just said. Although not as crazy as Joy Behar usually sounds.

A lesson Earl, don’t ask questions you don’t want answered!

Opal why did you marry Earl ?

And Opal follows it with “And that’s your good points, Earl”!

Oy! Earl opened the floodgates and Opal took him up on it!

Amazing! Only a few weeks ago Opal waited and waited in the car for Earl, forgetting she had driven it to the store. Now, without stopping for breath, she is able to remember and repeat a litany of Earl’s perceived short comings!!

But Earl! Cutting your toenails in bed? Really?

As a “seasoned senior”, I wonder why everyone can’t just look before they sit. And don’t give me that “middle of the night stuff” – That’s why God invented night lights.

Congratulations Earl, you may be flawed but it looks like you’ve lost quite a bit of weight today.

Did she mention the BO? She should really include the BO. He has that “old man” smell.

Never ask a rhetorical question within earshot of a smart aleck.

When I was young, I was informed “It’s a greeting, not a enquery.”

Seat up? Seat down?

I put the lid down…

Earl can not counter her comments so….

Worst of all, Earl, you have gawd-awful taste in women! Just hideous!

If she knew all those faults before they got married… Earl must have something that convinced her to say yes. And, as it appears they only had one daughter.. and, before the days of birth control.. did she marry for money?

Reminds me why I stayed single…….. THANK you Opal..!!!!!

Never interrupt she who must be obeyed. She hasn’t finished with the 1960s yet.

I feel sorry for Rhett Butler. All his life people assumed every question he ever asked was rhetorical.

If you don’t want to know the answer, don’t ask the question.

Brian Crane ! You’ve got to give poor ol’ Earl some “backatchas” like Brutus does now ’n then on the Born Loser strip !

What’s not to love!

well, Earl, she isn’t a mind reader. You asked a legitimate question, she was just giving the details for you.

Gradeschool taunt; “You’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny."

You tell it to Earl.I find when some ask how the other is just for politeness as they have their own issues.

Worked in dept. store and often crossed paths with one manager, who ALWAYS said .“How ya doing” and move on half way through. I thought (and still do ) it’s a stupid as a greeting. After a couple of times When I turned and followed him with my complaints of the day, I broke him of the habit.

She just gave you a rhetorical answer.

If you don’t want to know the answer don’t ask the question.

Yeah! I had it too. since I was bald from chemo and looked exactly like Uncle Fester, though, people usually didn’t ask.