Pickles by Brian Crane for September 07, 2022

Juggle could be a good retirement hobby.

I speak a foreign language. English.

Can you fish? Throw a ball? Tell funny stories about when you were a child? All good things that grandfathers can teach grandchildren.

My maternal grandfather could speak a foreign language: German as he was a missionary to Germany before WW2 and worked in the Bureau since his coming home thereafter for forty-ish years until his retirement before my mother was engaged to be married to my father. He also did carpentry as a hobby.

There has been limited discussion about that

I speak a foreign language American!

But that would not be true. There are a few things Earl can do.

“There’s almost no limit … " would be more accurate.

I speak three languages-English, Spanish, Pig Latin.

“His limitations are limitless.” – Phillies manager Danny Ozark on one of his players in the 1970’s

Oh, I couldn’t do that.

Remind him what you CAN do, Nelson!

That reads like something Opal would think, in a cartoon thought bubble.

“There’s No Limit to the Things You Can’t Do”. I think I smell the title of a new country song.

The one thing he can do is irritate Opal judging from the panels of the last two days…

When wifey was pregnant with our first child I taught myself to juggle. I figured every dad have the skill, at least the rudimentary three ball cross. I’ll be ready if/when the grand-babies come along

grandson to his mom recently: “Why does Granddude say he knows everything? He doesn’t know [big brother]‘s friend [friend’s name] plays baseball.” (Actually, I did…..) “He doesn’t know clouds are……..tasty!”

Doesn’t matter; I’ve been telling his dad & uncles that for 4 decades and still do (worked better before Google, though).

Ooooohh, that’s GOOD……. I gotta remember THAT one.

However, He can keep 2 hairs on his head…. wait a second those might not be hairs, could he actually be the man from My Favorite Martian?

Wonder what Gramps did for a living?

Do people still say that? … ‘’do for a living’’?

The depth of my ignorance constantly astounds me. Thus, I am easily amused.

LOL! Earl used to be good at a lot of things then he retired….

Just answer “I don’t know, I haven’t tried to yet.”

After a terribly played game, a reporter asked Tampa Bay coach John McKay about the execution of his team . He said “I’m all for it!”

Earl left himself wide open!

Stychen Tyme nailed it.

My brother, on R&R in the late ’60s asked a Copenhagen native if she spoke English … she replied by holding up five fingers. They just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

That’s me. And as I get older, some that I used to be able to slightly do – are now impossible.

Earl does speak one foreign language, Gibberish.

Knowledge for all geniuses is always far less than lack of knowledge. Knew some in college, though a few of them had ten and twenty degrees. One was working on the newest technology, but said he needed more math.

That be me on limits.

I cannot juggle, but I do the other things. Sometimes at the same time.