Pickles by Brian Crane for August 21, 2013

Wake up! Opal your dreaming again…;)

Is that Mark Trail?

Or is that Steve Canyon?

I’m going with Mark Trail. And if Earl were daydreaming back, maybe Opal would look like Brenda Starr ? Is that strip still in existence ?

Well it’s not Chas Sexington. (Simpsons)

It’s Mark Trail, and Opal would be spending a lot of time alone in the woods while he went around punching out guys with facial hair!

That is Leopold’s dad.

Life with Earl is like an unmarked trail.

This reminds me of an eyeglasses commercial that I used to see a year or two ago.

I’m going with Mark Trail…and I agree with jnik23260, that Mr. Trail doesn’t spend a heck of a lot of time with Cherry in Lost Forest…OTOH, maybe that appeals to Opal.

I spent a long train journey yesterday playing this game. Unless you’re reasonably happy with your life as it is, don’t try this at home. Fortunately I am.

I would not have expected Opal to be hot for Mark Trail.

Mark Trail represents Opal’s “Road Not Taken.” She chose Earl, “…and that has made all the difference.” Thank you, Robert Frost.

I’d definitely say Mark Trail. I know what Gil Thorp looks like (lol).

In this 2009 rerun, Earl turns into Mark Trail.

It’s my life. I’ll remember it any way I want…

If I were Earl, I’d probably be seeing Brrom Hilda. And that’s no fantasy.

LOL!! Love it!! You can mark my trail anytime, sir.

I know Gil Thorp. I work for Gil Thorp. That daydream is no Gil Thorp.

That Superman guy sure gets round.

Now he is 60 pounds heavier, dyes his gray hair to try looking younger, wears Coke bottle glasses, and never spent time with his three wives who have divorced him. Count your blessings, Opal. Earl’s not as bad as him.

This was my husband when we got married – now he is Earl. I, of course, look the same as the day we got married.

Perhaps that was Earl way back when they got married.

“Huh? Did you say something?”

LOL xxx

Dream on Opal. Look in a mirror, then think again.

Different. Not necessarily better. Very sweet!

How about Rex Morgan, MD … ?

Now that I think about it, it’s supposed to be Bob Barker.

If it goes into the stew pot, it’s ‘game’. The later TV hunting shows now refer to it as ‘harvest’. All in the interest of caving to the citified sorts that are deeply concerned about just about everything hurtful to those cute things that aren’t harming anyone, and we should just let them run, jump and play…. Just ONCE, I’d like to see a random sample of these sorts tossed into the Maine woods like their ancestors, to see them survive (not with 3 million bucks worth of TV cameras, helicopters, and young ‘idea-men’ just off-frame) and see howthey come out of the affair after six months of Real “Survival!”

Sheesh….

Absolutely the modern, pc, pipe-less Mark Trail.

I remember Mark Trail from the 1950’s. He could have been a good crush for young Opal. He might even be too old!

“Killing a living creature that cannot defend itself against such an attack? You don’t call that murder?”-Nah, I’ve killed many mosquitoes and never considered it murder even though they were defenseless living creatures. I save that term for illegal killing of a human (or intelligent alien life form but that’s just me).