Pickles by Brian Crane for July 13, 2018

The cat got his tongue trying to catch the frog in his throat.

again with the expressions

The look on the cat’s face in the last panel…

I know you think you know what you think I said, but I am not certain that what you think you know I said may not be what you think I know I meant.

Don’t worry about what Grandpa is talking about. It will only confuse you.

Grandpa is a wise man. He learned English from a Yogi.

Grampa may have just coined his own “Yogism”.

As a grandpa, I know it’s sometimes difficult to explain something to a young person, so you just do the best you can.

Poor Nelson, the sayings of the old! I plead guilty too!

“This means something. This is important.” — Richard Dreyfuss, sculpting Devil’s Tower out of mashed potatoes in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Yep, Earl’s out of the loop, and will be till the cows come home

And the moral is: Don’t be the Cats Pajamas if you want to keep your tongue?

This made me laugh out loud. Poor Nelson!

Well that explains the funky smell surrounding Earl’s head.

Senator Batson Belfry, I presume?

The expressions nowadays are also pretty odd. If he understands Earl and Opal he will be conversant with the older set and his own. I find that to be like having a couple languages under your belt. And also two cultures.

Being more understanding of others is never a handicap.

I still uses expressions that my Irish mother and grandmother used, back in their day. The funny thing is, my oldest grandson picked up a lot of those same expressions, from me, and has been known to use them. ( They’d lose too much in the translation, for the young Ecuadoran step-grandkids ).