Pickles by Brian Crane for June 09, 2024

My computer just quietly puts the unused open windows to sleep and lets me open as many as I want. I’m pretty sure I can have as many as 4,294,967,296… or perhaps all but a half dozen or so of them.

And when it said you didn’t have enough backup space, you went and found the driveway was clear.

My computer once told me I had a virus and it needed my credit card number to fix it.

She needs to call Nelson to tell her it meant computer windows.

…I feel terrible right now for the old folks who DO get computers. This is just sad.

My mind is like my web browser. 19 tabs are open, 3 are frozen and I have no idea where the music is coming from.

Computer metaphors are messed up anyway. Who the heck has windows on top of wallpaper on a desktop?

Shut the door.

I remember getting that message soon after getting my first computer and thinking why was that a problem?

call the exterminator – now there’s a mouse problem

Homer Simpson’s long lost sister ……. "To start, press any key. Where’s the ANY key?

When all else fails, reboot! But please not with your shoes!

I wish my computer would do what I want it to do, instead of what I tell it to do.

Oh jeez

One strip where Earl is not the butt of the joke. That’s rare.

I got a phone call and was told my computer had a virus. I told him not to worry because I gave it an antibiotic.

Get a Mac! Never wash Windows again!

Not touching that one, hits close to home

I have always believed that computers are the work of the Devil.

What, haven’t you seen someone sitting (maybe you) at a computer keyboard talking the Lord’s name in vain? All the time.

Time to join the 21st century, Opal.

Oh, come on! You know what it means.

Good one, Opal!

Somebody else must have helped her get into this trouble. She couldn’t have opened that many windows on the computer by herself.

I keep getting blazing red warnings that my computer is infected and all it is is a trick to subscribe to their services.

If she really IS that stupid, call Nelson over. He’ll explain it.Maybe senior centers could have third graders give classes on computers.Although, by now, computers have been around long enough that anyone 75 or younger should know what they’re doing. I picked 75 because that’s close to my age group.

This one made me laugh out loud!

Opal still hasn’t found the “any key” either.

Just one of many reasons to “close” windows and use Linux.

They BOTH look baffled……. maybe Google the word “window”.???

She takes things to literal……

Just ask Nelson for help.

Rise of the House of Microsoft. The unseen window … “Why is my PC so slow?”

Cookies are bad for you too you got to clean those dirty crumbs up every now and then.

Oh this is REALLY funny! It takes me back to when I started using a computer and this is about what would’ve happened and my answer is Opals. Especially when my friend mentioned how many “cookies” I had and that I should get rid of them. I don’t think I have to reveal THAT answer here.

Whatever. If you bought Microsoft stock at almost any time, you made a lot of money.

My father, rest his soul, was quite literal when trying to operate a PC. He’d literally thought the button was on the keyboard instead of the screen. He finally gave it away, much to the relief of on call tech assistants.

That was a blonde joke right?

Bless her heart!

At a bookstore I saw a magazine on Windows 3.0 filed with home improvement mags. I’m old enough to remember using MSDOS.

This is totally my mom. She’s 89 and she takes all of that as scripture, could easily see all the drapes blowing in the windows.

There’s windows and there’s windows.

I’ve seen this one before. Why the re-run?