Pickles by Brian Crane for April 19, 2021

Nothing says how macho you are like a Hello Kitty band-aid. Right Earl.

Hello Kitty band-aids! Yes! :D

Ouch, that comment hurt worse than the knife cut I’m sure.

When I was a kidlet we always used knives to sharpen pencils…can remember half the class of ten year olds all squashed together busily sharpening our pencils into the one bin. Looking back, I am surprised no-one got cut by accident, but I suppose if you are taught how to use a knife correctly from an early age you tend to be safe with them. My papa taught me how to handle a knife when I was five.

Earl was too lazy to get up to go to the pencil sharpener.

I’ve always found that I could get a better point on a wooden pencil sharpening it by hand, but I also tended to wear down the pencil faster that way.

Methinks Opal likes Hello Kitty because she’s a cat person; Earl would be prefer a Snoopy bandage because he’s a dog person.

Roscoe rolling his eyes in the last panel.

Roscoe knows that Earl should have used “Hello Cthuthlu” band-aids!

Opal must have been out of Princess bandaids

“…that too.”

(I favored mechanical pencils when first I saw them. Always sharp and can be used as a weapon if absolutely necessary — I ever did, but I could’ve.)

Some frivolity in life must be accepted

Well if it works use it ! Who cares about how it looks .

And this is one reason why women generally live longer! I love this cartoon!

Those bandaids ROCK! They magically make any owie hurt less!

At your age, Earl, does it really pay to try to be “macho”?

Macho? Opal must have bought the Hello Kitty bandaids for Nelson.

You’d be surprised what you can buy branded “Hello Kitty”. They sell a Hello Kitty AK-47, and also a… a… uh… “electric massager” your wife might enjoy…. nuff said.

We used to have actual “Home economics” and “Shop” classes. Now there is a shortage of skilled trades. Wonder how that happened?

I had to have a huge hematoma drained after a horse accident. They gave me an antibiotic shot to prevent infection and when I got home I discovered it was covered by a “Wonder Woman” band aid!

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Earl, a man secure with his masculinity.

My grandpa, a farmer & carpenter, always sharpened his pencils with his pocket knife.

He also trimmed his grandkids’ fingernails with it; scared the crap out of my mom.

It does not matter which doctor’s office I’ve been to, all they have are kid’s band-aids. The medical people must believe what tremaine53 said, They magically make any owie hurt less!

That’s my dad, w/o the Hello Kitty band-aid.

Good one, Nelson.

He should have got a Batman or Superman one!

You never really own a knife until you’ve cut yourself with it.

I remember my dad teaching me to sharpen pencil with a knife, fortunate I did not cut myself and very cautious, was really lousy did not help with the pencil, my dad tried not to bother with pencil sharpener. He like old fashion ways.

But it is a MACHO kitty! See King Kitten batting down biplanes from atop the Empire State Building: https://clothingmonster.com/en/animal-t-shirts-clothing-the-mountain/126-king-kitten-t-shirt-0885361241626.html?gmc_currency=2&msclkid=5cd1a626ebe21468dc33c65b0101f759&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BSC_USA_New&utm_term=4582214719466620&utm_content=All_products

I got my covid vaccine shot and didn’t get my Snoopy band aid. It made me sad.

Way easier to just get up, go to the bathroom, get a big bowl of ice-cream with chocolate syrup, and use the pencil sharpener, compared to wherever your pants and knife happen to be nowadays.

Hey Earl, real men shave with a knife. ( get your cameras ready, people. This could be youtube worthy).

When I got my (first) Covid shot they put a Garfield band-aid on my owie…!

Earl should have used Scotch tape and been even more macho.