Pickles by Brian Crane for April 14, 2014

…or bored to death.

I’m sure Andy Capp can relate when it comes to his mother-in-law.

Opal’s sister should come over more often.

Earl won’t be himself for a while.

Of course it’s exhausting. We know she wasn’t nice back.

Being nice IS hard work, but some of us are up to it if nobody pushes us TOO HARD.

Especially when it’s someone you’d rather not be nice to.

Well, maybe not for YOU, but as to Earl and me …

Opal and her sister…That’s a pair to draw to.

Opal should try her own advice once in a while.

Hard to believe, isn’t it?

“Tuckered Out” is a colloquialism. Street urchins were called “Tuckers” and were the source of the nursery rhyme about Little Tommy Tucker….

“Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper, What shall we give him? Brown bread and butter. How shall he cut it without a knife? How shall he marry without a wife?”

After the begger kids performed for their eats they had very little energy left for anything else… hence the term “Tuckered Out”.

Tuckers were viewed as being so low in society, they had no possibility to ever better themselves… hence the line about the wife and marriage.