Pickles by Brian Crane for August 10, 2024

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    carlsonbob  3 months ago

    Yeah, I was young and single. I blinked and now married for 40+ years with a granddaughter a sophomore in college.

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    Concretionist  3 months ago

    I blinked. Wow. Where did my joints go? Where did my hair go? Where did my belly come from?…

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    momofalex7  3 months ago

    Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. Blink, and you’re dead. (Doctor Who, best episode.)

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    Argythree  3 months ago

    Never in a million years thought I’d end up in a retirement residence, even if it is ‘independent living’ (translation: you do your own cooking and figure out transportation if you can’t drive…)

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    Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member 3 months ago

    I’m trying to seldom breathe. It’s working, the blackouts make the day longer.

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    Macushlalondra  3 months ago

    Thanks for that explanation Opal. It makes as much sense as anything else.

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    MeanBob Premium Member 3 months ago

    Some hold that as children we are further from the event horizon and so time is dilated. As we age we become closer to said horizon, time constricts. However, people who hold these, ideas tend to be quite silly and deluded, and often run for political office.

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    CO Premium Member 3 months ago

    The human brain really has no concept of time. The past of 1 year is the same as 60. When you are young you only have a few years that you can look back on and therefore judge how long that took. When you look back at 60 years it feels no different, but your logic says that it is a long time, so it must have “flown by”.

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    ᴮᴼᴿᴱᴰ2ᴰᴱᴬᵀᴴ  3 months ago

    blah, blah, blah⠄⠄⠄

    these two haven’t aged a day in nearly 45 years

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    iggyman  3 months ago

    70 seemed so old when I was 21!

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    kelloggs2066  3 months ago

    You folks might want to listen to Casey Beathard’s song “Don’t Blink”

    Don’t blink, just like that you’re six years oldAnd you take a napAnd you wake up and you’re twenty-fiveAnd your high school sweetheart becomes your wife

    Don’t blink, you just might missYour babies growing like mine didTurning into moms and dadsNext thing you know your better halfOf fifty years is there in bedAnd you’re praying God takes you instead

    Trust me friend a hundred yearsGoes faster than you think, so don’t blink

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    Watchdog  3 months ago

    Using cerebral math skills no longer practiced

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    Rasslebear  3 months ago

    I’m 75. I can relate.

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    The Fly Hunter  3 months ago

    You got that right, Earl!

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    USlackr  Premium Member 3 months ago

    I’ve read that time seems to move faster when you have no new experiences because you are making no new memories.

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    Gen.Flashman  3 months ago

    Why are they using a table cloth? Green padded dining chairs?

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    The Orange Mailman  3 months ago

    This strip is 18 years old so factor that in.

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    chris_o42  3 months ago

    Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.

    Enjoy yourself, while you’re still in the pink.

    The years go by, as quickly as a wink——-

    Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think!

    (Enjoy yourself" —Louis Prima and Keeley Smith)

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    david_42  3 months ago

    Nothing slows time more than waiting for the first butternut squash to ripen, except maybe figs.

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    mrwiskers  3 months ago

    Can we explore Opal’s math? Or am I missing that that is part of the joke?

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    PoochFan  3 months ago

    I had a friend in his eighties who used to say that he knew people who wouldn’t even buy green bananas. (Cause they might not live till they ripened).

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    monya_43  3 months ago

    My children are in their late fifties and early sixties. I was that age just last week.

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    jango  3 months ago

    Opal’s fractured fractions

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    assrdood  3 months ago

    I’ve caught that disease………yesterday, it was June 1st.

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    win.45mag  3 months ago

    We like to call that a picosecond.

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    bsisler21  3 months ago

    Opal failed math in school.

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    EMGULS79  3 months ago

    I blinked on my honeymoon and landed on my 30th anniversary.

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    ladykat  3 months ago

    True.

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    ANIMAL  3 months ago

    EXACTLY……. now ENJOY your dinner, and STOP worrying.!!!! ( LOL )

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    elgrecousa Premium Member 3 months ago

    Wow, Opal is getting brainy all of a sudden.

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    markkahler52  3 months ago

    The Time all went to Cincinnati….

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    Medtech4  3 months ago

    That’s absolutely true about how we sense time passage. It’s scary, but you can’t think about it too long!

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    zeexenon  3 months ago

    Just so we don’t run out of chocolate chip cookies and cake.

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    billdaviswords  3 months ago

    My oldest grandson is almost as old as I was when I met his grandmother (and taller than I was then!)

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    wndflower1  3 months ago

    i had a pilot license for years- i am at the age now where i find myself to be on final approach! hope the runway is long enough!

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    pearlyqim  3 months ago

    Makes sense!

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    prrdh  3 months ago

    You don’t even dare blink…lest the eyes close permanently.

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    ᴮᴼᴿᴱᴰ2ᴰᴱᴬᵀᴴ  3 months ago

    AFAIC it boils down to looking forward instead of looking back

    anticipation and participation will always seem longer than the memory of the experience

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    Linguist  3 months ago

    For many of us guys of a certain age I offer this alliterative lament: We’ve been tickled under the testiclés by the tempestuous touch of time!

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    DenO Premium Member 3 months ago

    I don’t mind getting old. I just wish it took longer.

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    kmccjoe1  3 months ago

    Finally! Someone gets it right!!! Thank you Brian. I’ve been arguing this for years. It’s a matter of comparative perception.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  3 months ago

    I’m at middle age. I may blink less often now.

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    cracker65  3 months ago

    Earl is right

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    nyg16  3 months ago

    Never thought of that but yes pickles that make sense

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    bestframeforward Premium Member 3 months ago

    I wrote a college paper on exactly that concept!!

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