Pickles by Brian Crane for January 28, 2014

Time to get your Beltones checked out Earl.

Billy ghosts and nanny ghosts.

I’ve lived with both. Ghosts are less trouble.

Try having an audio discrimination problem and cope with a foreign language. It sometimes makes for very interesting conversations.

Hey, let’s show some respect for our veterans! ;-)

Goats go “baah”.Ghosts go “boo”.Any questions?

A kid will eat ivy too… wouldn’t you ?

We care because we’re good, caring people, just like you oh beloved milania.

This would be funny if I didn’t need hearing aids so bad…

My wife and I live with two ghosts that are beginning to become a pain, literally.

Time for the return of the hearing aid.

xxx

Hep frogs, on the other end, go “ree-bop”.

Anybody else think he was talking about Pac-Man?

By an odd coincidence, the 1925 P. G. Wodehouse ghost story “Honeysuckle Cottage” begins with this gag.

“Do you believe in ghosts?” asked Mr. Mulliner abruptly.

I weighed the question thoughtfully. I was a little surprised, for nothing in our previous conversation had suggested the topic.

“Well,” I replied, “I don’t like them, if that is what you mean. I was once butted by one as a child.” --

Earl believes in goats? Well, it is refreshing to know that someone still has faith in Pan.

You’re right. Mine are not Beltones. The parent company of the ones I have has factories all over the place including China.