Pickles by Brian Crane for October 22, 2024

well, Earl⠄⠄⠄answer the sea hag

Earl: Could you alter my surroundings to make them more nutritious? – Opal: Not without making a mess that you’ll clean up.

No wonder marriages are on the decline

Or like a sponge or fungi.

Nope. The recliner chair is your barnacle

No, not at all. Just at mostly.

It must not be a very appetizing dinner!

If you only feed him at the table you will limit his sedentary lifestyle. Unless he stays at the table in which case you may have to move the feeding spot.

Earl’s progressing from sedentary to parasitical?

Sea worm.

He saves nutrients in his mustache. Alas, I’m follicaly poor and must consume food orally.

it all depends on whether there are zucchini for dinner…

Since plants, which don’t move, eventually turn into coal, are they sedentary or sedimentary?

Opal has a good sense of humor!

Considering all the crumbs he generates eating snacks while in that chair, he probably could absorb nutrients from his surroundings.

Considering her weight, Opal is pretty sedimentary too.

Earl had best not suggest that SHE is the barnacle.

well…… THAT was harsh

Earl the barnacle………

I must disagree with Opal. I’ve unsuccessfully tried and tried to lose weight by eating less and less and I’ve been walking 20+ miles a week. There’s just no other explanation…I’m absorbing fat cells by osmosis.

Eventually barnacles can become sedimentary as well; there are limestone formations dominated by barnacles.

Barnacles are sessile, not sedentary.

Opal, Earl is right, he is sedimentary, after all we all know he has rocks in his head.

If there are cookie or pizza crumbs, I say just absorb those.

Barnacle Bill the Failure absorbs chair-f a r t juice.

Excuse me. I gotta pry myself off the hull of my recliner to get more coffee.

If she’d started that conversation with dinner’s ready, he would have been long gone out of that chair.

Since when is Earl sedentary when it’s dinner time?

I practically sit on my recliner all the time but my lower back started to ache so I bought a lumbar support pillow and what a difference!

I didn’t know that was an option

Earl: Watch it, Ursula.

You know dinner will get him out of the chair.