Pickles by Brian Crane for September 08, 2024

Yeah, my dad seemed to hink that was his exact purpose as well . . . but unlike Opal, mom was having none of it.

What happened to the robot vacuum? It’s been a couple years since I’ve seen it.

I’ve met some people whose OBVIOUS reason for existence was to be a bad example.

Had two managers at Boeing who totally served that purpose!

“… and I do it well.”

thought Earl got his lumps from Opal

Earl says “I am a rock, I am an island” (Too much Simon and Garfield)!

The sweet lovable Roscoe , today : )

Everyone should come with a halflife number, that would make living so different for people.

Hopefully being an obstacle for or an irritation to someone else is not your only reason for existence.

Like the way Nelson is perched on the chair’s arm…the seat of learning!

That comment can be taken many ways.

Oy! Earl is warping Nelson’s poor brain…..

Once in a Lifetime, by Talking Heads – You May Ask Yourself.

At least he UNDERSTANDS his purpose.

Nelson agrees with that. :)

I’m surprised that no politician has offered free tanks to house the porpoises in our lives.

Nelson, this 81+ dude says, good luck with that circular obsession.

If we are not here to help each other, then what are we here for?

“This is our work, to discover what we can give. Isn’t this the purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?” R.W. Kimmerer – Braiding Sweetgrass

otoh it occurs much muuch better to be vacuumed around, than Over

wonder why GoComics doesn’t post the full-sized Pickles comic on Sundays

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even though it may not affect the overall story, at least it is different artwork each week

they load the larger versions of other strips – even the ones with static title frames (like BabyBlues)

I always wondered why people think that there is a purpose. We are here for a short while and then we are gone forever. And, how fortunate to have had that experience!

Grandma is a pretty big sized lump too!

Quick thinking Earl……

Earl could do the vacuuming and stop complaining about purposely being in the way.

This song by “The Talking Heads” popped into my head while reading this strip.

And you may ask yourself, “How do I work this?”And you may ask yourself, “Where is that large automobile?”And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful house”And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful wife”… Letting the days go by, let the water hold me downLetting the days go by, water flowing undergroundInto the blue again, after the money’s goneOnce in a lifetime, water flowing underground… Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.

We bought a robot vacuum. I am still the lump, however.