Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 05, 2025

Blehhh! Ensure is much better than Boost!

Incidentally, TB, putting your decades-old punny senior home name on a big sign in Panel Two doesn’t make it any less unamusing.

That something a hustler would say.

Bedsore Manor

Does Crankshaft drink Boost shakes?

When they go to leave the interns will stop them and say, where you going, this is your home.

Most obvious setup for a hustle ever…

I think a box of “Depends” would be more appropriate…

Cranky will play for a bottle of gin…

When did they change the name from Watery Tarts?

Or Ensure!

Oh, look! Old people jokes…

Hmm… I’m 71 and associate the name “Boost” with a cell phone service reseller catering to the “urban” market (“Where You At?™”)… I had to look up what “Boost” and “Ensure” are. Apparently they’re for old people…

Only reason these guys are “chasing balls all over the place” is that their gubernaculum testis has loosened up. Happens in really old guys.

pickleball week is just another failure at humor

At least this is Ed and not Dinkle, Mopey Pete, Skunkhead, Less, etc.

uhoh

Look out Ed. Looks like a shark has been playing you.

My mother moved from a Senior Apartment building here in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a nursing home in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. My younger brother and sister lived down there. It bothered Mom because the attitude of the some of the residents was “I came here to die.” Mom kept her mind active. I talked to her on the phone every evening. She said, “One should learn something new every day.” I miss talking to her.

They should play for a case of Ben-Gay

Nah, now if you toss in a six pack of Geritol, Ed might be interested.

…..pickleball shark……..beware!!!!

Cranky: Depends if Always Discreet and Poise.

I smell a hustler…

[referring to a billiards player]Henry ‘Hopper’ Nash/Lou: He’s good.

Nicky: How good?

Henry ‘Hopper’ Nash/Lou: A lot better than he was five minutes ago.

Racing With the Moon (1984)

Little did ol’ Crankshat know that the players were Catherine O’Hara & Willem Dafoe in disguise!