Pickles by Brian Crane for November 21, 2023

Still not funny, Grandpa…

To be honest, they had to be partly missing to begin with. Which is to say, you had to be a kid. We made some very dumb decisions back then.

You can hide the injury with a plastic rhino horn or plastic eye.

Nelson looks like he’s been subjected to that quackery of cupping.

Just tell everybody you’re Indian in a big way.

Too young for a zit, his pineal gland must be breaking through as a third eye! Well, this nice family cartoon certainly took a nasty H.P. Lovecraft twist!

The old cup tipped arrows did that too.

a forehead hickey

Nelson: “Is there some way I can get my brains back, Gramma?”

The poor kid will have to go in for politics!

I remember when my gullibility was taken advantage of and was called teasing!

We all know that Earl will be blamed for Nelson’s experimentation.

Better think twice before you pull that trick again, Nelson ! O dear, guess that could be a small problem…

Tune in tomorrow to see the next portion of the “Nelson and the vacuum cleaner” arc…

“Some people without a brain do an awful lotta talking”

Nelson, first that is not where you want a hickey, and second that is not how you want to get a hickey. You have a lot to learn Nelson, a lot to learn.

My older brother told my son that if you unscrew his belly button, his bum would fall off. For years my son would not allow my brother anywhere near him.

Looks like the Olympic swimmers from the Rio games…

Opal will be delivering a slice of humble pie to Earl for this.

He’s not not wrong.

Opal’s not wearing her bunny slippers.

apparently

’Once knew a fella – quite a dignified fella – was playing with his daughter and stuck a suction-cupped dart to his forehead. We had a meeting with important customers the next day, and he had to explain 100 times why there was a 1" circular red mark on his forehead.

And now he falls down all the time

Many years ago… I was entreating my one-year-old nephew by sticking a rattle to my forehead via the suction cup and shaking my head. He was VERY amused So I kept it going for a while. I had a perfectly round hickey-looking thing in the middle of my forehead for a week! Live and learn.

Grandma is certain Sally next door gave you a hickey.

I would have believed that when I was Nelson’s age!! I still do. : -)

You’ll have that mark for days, if not longer.

can always dig ‘em outta the shopvac…if Earl didn’t dump it, that is!

No it’s a doo-hickey, Nelson! Give it a few days.

explains a lot about our college kids though…