Pickles by Brian Crane for October 23, 2023

That or he was imitating Yogi Berra…

These days, the thing may be obsolete/unnecessary by the time it has to be done.

I totally understand. Do it now to get it out of the way, and you don’t have to stress over it.

If only that advice worked for bowel movements.

Rest room logic for children especially before a long car trip.

n programming, that’s called a “greedy algorithm”. And it’s sometimes a good idea. But if what you THOUGHT you would eventually have to do turns out to not be something you ACTUALLY have to do, then you shouldn’t have done it in the first place: Wasted effort. And not doing it until needed is called a “lazy algorithm”.

My programming mentor always told me that the greedy man may get MORE beer, but the lazy man gets the LAST beer.

I’m thinking it was the medication that derailed his train of thought.

I tried this with shovelling snow, but shovelling before it snowed didn’t mean I didn’t have to shovel after it snowed as well.

I’d put off taking that medication for as young as you can.

I suspect Earl’s memory may be going and his grandfather may have given him a sound piece of advice that Earl has since lost.

Sounds like it…

Earl’s grandpa had a point, but lacked the gift of being able to express his ideas clearly.

I think what his grandpa really said was “Never do today what you can put off ’til tomorrow.”

I took this advice on many occasions. Unfortunately, it proved to be overkill in several instances.

His favorite song must have been “Do, Do, Do” by George Gershwin.

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“… I know, know, know

What a beau, beau, beau

Should do, baby

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“So don’t, don’t, don’t

Say it won’t, won’t, won’t

Come true, baby”

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https://genius.Com/George-gershwin-do-do-do-lyrics

Thyme for Sage advice.

Or maybe he was OFF his medication?

That’s both sad AND confusing…..

I disagree. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Nelson is more confused as ever, now!

I’d have trouble remembering all that.

That behavior is the opposite of procrastination.

Whatever the medication was, it sure made Earl’s grandpa loopy.

In short, Nelson just git er done!

MY grandfather told ME “Don’t shake the family tree too hard. You don’t know what kind of nuts will fall out.”

I think Earl’s grandfather was right.

Ha~Sometimes you have a great thought, that you feel you need to share, that just doesn’t seem to go anywhere!

But he was feeling a lot more like he was then than before he started saying it.

So it’s the medication? Now I know …..

Hahaha!

I’m a believer in “Get the worst over first.” The rest of the stuff is cake.

Wisdom is underappreciated.

I think Earl might have been wrong, maybe grandpa needed to be on medications.

Grandpa married long time and betting on the come.

I think he was channeling J. R. R. Tolkien: "I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”—Bilbo Baggins

He clearly followed his own advice and took his medicine too soon, when he didn’t have to do it.

Sounds lie a bunch of do do to me.

“See, we plan ahead. That way we don’t have to do anything right now. Earle explained it to me.” (Kevin Bacon in ‘Tremors’)

I know that you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

You have to admire the logic of that profound bit of advice.

More likely off his medication…