Very few animal species have family structures where grandparents interact with, let alone help care for, their grandchildren. For those which do (including whales and elephants), it’s a sign of a highly cohesive, supportive familial community.
Earl is going to eat some of the cookies, too. He will make himself useful that way. Don’t want the cookies to “go bad”. That’s what my dad use to say when he had another helping of dessert.
Gotta pass on the wealth of information you gleaned in your lifetime. And in days of old, mind the little ones while the able were out trying to bring down an elephant for supper.
Some of us never had children. Does this mean our entire existence has been useless? One can always find things to give one’s life meaning. At any age.
This is the same joke as the comic that ran on Aug 3, 2022. It is not the identical dialogue, but the same phrases in a different order. Must have had trouble with inspiration that day. Or Brian Crane is really in to recycling!
I’ve figured out why we get insomnia so bad as we age: it’s so we can much more easily get up in the middle of the night and help the new mom with the baby. She feeds it, we change and burp it so she can go get some much-needed rest. My late MIL was amazing that way.
Erse IS better over 1 year ago
Spoiling the grandkids is the BEST revenge!
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
point taken, Opal
carlsonbob over 1 year ago
Grandchildren are God’s gift to me for letting my kids live through their teenage years!
monkeysky over 1 year ago
Very few animal species have family structures where grandparents interact with, let alone help care for, their grandchildren. For those which do (including whales and elephants), it’s a sign of a highly cohesive, supportive familial community.
yoey1957 over 1 year ago
In the wild there are some species that eat their young, grandkids are the reason humans don’t.
profbob over 1 year ago
Roscoe and Muffins are relying on Earl and Opal to take care of them. So, Earl is not totally useless.
sandpiper over 1 year ago
We survive as examples of what can happen to the young over time.
kenwarnerfordictator over 1 year ago
Amen! Our purpose in life is to spoil the grandchildren, enjoy their company, and send them home.
The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago
And someone needs to read Pickles every day!
iggyman over 1 year ago
Those who have grandchildren are very lucky! Tell ’em Opal!
pschearer Premium Member over 1 year ago
The invention of grandparents was a major step in human evolution.
ilikai over 1 year ago
She doesn’t know how to spoil him, she makes him work for rewards.
DrDavy2000 over 1 year ago
We skipped children and went right to grandchildren (great-nieces and -nephews).
jagedlo over 1 year ago
One of the times that Opal makes sense!
ANIMAL over 1 year ago
Oh boyyyyyy……. what did he do?
Doug K over 1 year ago
Spoiling a grandchild is so much more true from the grandmother’s viewpoint (than it is from the grandfather’s viewpoint).
monya_43 over 1 year ago
Earl is going to eat some of the cookies, too. He will make himself useful that way. Don’t want the cookies to “go bad”. That’s what my dad use to say when he had another helping of dessert.
Linguist over 1 year ago
Grandchildren are your revenge on your own kids. Now your children realize what you went through when they were growing up!
Daltongang Premium Member over 1 year ago
The very reason we keep a supply of giant 15" long Pixie Sticks on hand. Before the grandkids go home we give each of them one.
jhpeanut over 1 year ago
Wish I could say that. sigh
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
I don’t know what I’de do without my grandchildren…and one great- grand child! The loves of my life! ❤️❤️❤️
GaryReinbold over 1 year ago
And if there are no grandkids??
e.groves over 1 year ago
I ask myself that same question, Earl.
Alberta Oil Premium Member over 1 year ago
Gotta pass on the wealth of information you gleaned in your lifetime. And in days of old, mind the little ones while the able were out trying to bring down an elephant for supper.
hariseldon59 over 1 year ago
Some of us never had children. Does this mean our entire existence has been useless? One can always find things to give one’s life meaning. At any age.
LeftCoastBoomer Premium Member over 1 year ago
It’s hard to accept Earl being so introspective. It’s very out-of-character.
delennwen over 1 year ago
Aw, a rare sweet Pickles strip.
John Schneider over 1 year ago
This is the same joke as the comic that ran on Aug 3, 2022. It is not the identical dialogue, but the same phrases in a different order. Must have had trouble with inspiration that day. Or Brian Crane is really in to recycling!
walstib Premium Member over 1 year ago
Most of my buddies concur that our wives’ grandma genes are way stronger than our grandad genes.
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction over 1 year ago
Do what you do do well!!
amaryllis2 Premium Member over 1 year ago
I’ve figured out why we get insomnia so bad as we age: it’s so we can much more easily get up in the middle of the night and help the new mom with the baby. She feeds it, we change and burp it so she can go get some much-needed rest. My late MIL was amazing that way.
alison over 1 year ago
If only our children planned to ever have children.
Mary McNeil Premium Member over 1 year ago
And be around to watch him all the time apparently.
David Weiss over 1 year ago
Grandchildren are nature’s compensation for the indignities of aging!
kab2rb over 1 year ago
At least you have grandkids. My two adult kids one with a man not married, other son loaner.
w16521 over 1 year ago
What can possibly be better then Grandma’s freshly baked cookies?
Mikey Jay over 1 year ago
I don’t know how many times my grandmother used to discreetly slip money into my hand and then say, “Don’t tell your mother.” She loved spoiling me.