Pickles by Brian Crane for May 12, 2019

I think this is a much older strip; the copyright year between the last two panels looks like it says 2007.

And Earl gives such GOOD compliments, too.

if Earl is not careful, he will soon suffer from acute septic infliction

Consider the strip exists only in printed form, how were we supposed to know that he was pronouncing “sewer” the way he was?

potato, potato, tomato, tomato Long “a” soft “a” !

He must have been watching Ed Norton on the “Honeymooners”

The Opal way of saying “Keep Out” :-o

my mom played the piano professionally; I am told that when I was a wee lad I used to tell people she was a penis because I could not pronounce pianist.

Then don’t complement her anymore. Simple as that.

Earl can’t win, no matter what! Another sour lesson for Nelson and Roscoe.

Another term is "sewist"’

Interesting look Roscoe has in the title panel!

My husband often corrects me on the pronunciation of our local pet store. I can’t hear the difference but being corrected like that really irks me. 43 years of marriage and, apparently, he’s not going to be able to change me.

Might be time to make up the COUCH again……. it’s gonna be a Looooooong night

She must have taken a nasty pill today!

I still think he means that big pipe under the street moving product to the treatment plant.

So what?

English! the drain should be sooer, the occupation should be sower (maybe)… how did we get “sewer” and not even know which one it’s supposed to be without context or pronunciation?

Prefer seamstress to sewer and sewist. Don’t forget quilter and piecer.

Boy Opal he’s saying nice things and complimenting you…you could be a bit nicer….

Just missed the Temple picture.

Opal would love to spend every minute of every day with Earl, but some days she actually has to get stuff done.

At least he didn’t cheer her with “wooo soo-ieee!”

It’s only a sew-sew joke today…

This made me laugh so hard…I once worked as a sewer (pronounced sew-er) for an awning company and was being admitted to the emergency and filled out the form. The admitting person asked me “And, what does a sewer (pronouncing it soo-er) do?” I laughed then, too.