Pickles by Brian Crane for October 11, 2023

Grandma has so much more experience gaslighting people

Well played, Opal.

Can the lackey lickey the spooney?

Nelson, go tell your mommy you need new grandparents.

I can see Nelson in therapy for years and years

First grandparent to promote Nelson to capo regime wins.

Once Nelson stages a coup, which one will he make HIS underling and which one will be his lackey?

TRAITOR !! DOUBLE AGENT !!! LMAO

Come to the Dark Side , We have cookies !

Not much better!

Just waiting for the moment that the bulb goes off in Nelson’s head…

But only the very best, though, ever make it to Stooge. Gotta encourage the boy to strive, here.

By consulting a thesaurus, Opal and Earl can go back and forth on this for weeks.

You might want to check Nelson. I’m pretty sure a lackey is below an underling. You want to be aiming for minion. Harley Quinn was Joker’s “minion with benefits” until she hooked up with Poison Ivy.

That’s some good memories, right there.

Kid needs a DICTIONARY.

Little kids are fun to fool, as long as it’s not done in a mean or hurtful way. It took me years sometimes to figure out the jokes in what my grandfather and father said.

Nelson you shoulda stuck with Minion!

Opal, Nelson can’t be your Lackey. First off you already have a husband, and secondly Nelson is your Grandson.

It was “peon” that sealed the deal.

Lackeys get cookies!

(Staring at the spoon) “Could you make that lickey instead?”

Nowadays, people are cautioned not to lick batter containing eggs because of salmonella, the bacteria, not the piscine equivalent of Cinderella !

When I was in my first position at a large school district (staff, not teaching) they hired a new supervisor. I overheard her tell someone on the phone that she would have her lackey take care of somehting. I was appalled and my opinion of her went straight into the toilet. If it had been me she was talking about, we would would have had words.

Running dog .

Earl & Opal don’t deserve a grandson like Nelson….I’ve got a whole new perspective of them now…..

Opal is evil… :D

Gasp! Opal is worse than Earl….

Maybe the Lackey can have a Lickey !

Nelson. what you are is a naivete.

Very funny as always!

Does a lackey get to lickey the spoon?

Higher and higher!!

Paeon this theme.

Nelson, I think it’s more of a lateral move than a promotion.

Nelson is really gonna be confused in life…….

Isn’t that actually a demotion?

Regardless, Nelson …….. enjoy while you can ……… :)

Maybe Nelson should go home to his mother, so he can be what he’s meant to be, an indentured servant.

Did Brian Crane get a thesaurus for a birthday or something?

Practice for the corporate ladder, son.

they should remember he might be choosing their nursing home

Nelson still needs to know the actual meaning of those words.

From a skit by Canada’s Wayne and Shuster ( think it was The Scarlet Pumpernickel), “It’s getting so you can’t tell the lackeys from the flunkys anymore”

A lackey was literally a servant or “poor relation” who did not rate a key to the manor – i.e. lack – key

The names for subordinates are often used interchangeably and fall in and out of favor with P.C. (politically correct) or “woke” social agendas. It rarely matters to those who take the orders. Anything is better than, “Hey, you!”.

Opal’s attitude is if Nelson doesn’t love me the most, I’ll make it so he doesn’t love Earl at all… sad

I would rather be an underling than a lackey.