Pickles by Brian Crane for February 07, 2021

You’re right Opal it doesn’t get any better than this. I don’t like marshmallows.

if you want those little marshmallows for your cocoa, Earl, just to the store yourself and get them

Hey, I want the little marshmallows…..AND the whipped cream.

No marshmallows, but we do have these styrofoam packing peanuts. That’s better…(to quote Invader Zim) that’s worse, you made it worse!

Shut up and drink the hot chocolate Earl.

Reminds me of the all-you-can-eat restaurant I went to once. I went up for seconds and they said, “No! That’s all you can eat!”

It doesn’t get any better than this – tagline from a series of Old Milwaukee beer commercials from the ’80s.

Earl is not fully trained yet.

I went to the store other day, to get Cocoa and tiny marshmallows, they were out of tiny marshmallows, all they had was those Big , put on a stick around the campfire kind, I was disappointed but I bought the big kind anyways I thought to myself I just use some ingenuity and cut them into small pieces and put them in Cocoa, Needless to say, it didn’t work

Earl add Brandy ;-)

Some rules are strictly enforced.

“But the sign said ‘ALL YOU CAN EAT,’ "

“That IS all you can eat, sir.”

Any better, Opal? Maybe if it weren’t for the slurp!

Another genuine and thoughtful from Opal…….snarky

Don’t spoil her moment.

In December, my wife purchased three bags of peppermint marshmallows. Next year, she will also buy 3-4 cans of peppermint cocoa mix.

I envision each of those two sitting in separate rooms, and each with a cardboard cutout of the other for company.

UNbendable Opal! OY! Get up and get them yourself, Earl, because she’s done for the night!

Remind me of Jack Nicholson: “What if this is as good as it gets?”

I don’t remember them ever sitting next to a fireplace before. Nice touch

I love this strip.

The marshmallows all dissolve in mine before I drink it. They do change the taste however.

ah… she was being literal

In the original revelation Hot drinks were to be avoided. Doesn’t HOT Cocoa fall into this category? Or are Willie and Ethel Jacks?

Need tiny sticks to roast those tiny marshmallows over the fire. Perhaps a tiny fire as well? A birthday candle would work.

Afraid of the truth?

It is what it is!

“But since I know you like barbecue sauce, I put a little of THAT in your cocoa, Opal…”

“Cocoa Opal” sounds like a band name.

Good one today. In the same class as “Walk this way. No, really, WALK THIS WAY.” from “Young Frankenstein.”

Why aren’t they facing the fire?

If momma ain’t happy, ain’t no one happy.

Why is the hot chocolate dripping down the sides of the mugs?

Leave it to Earl to spoil the ambience of the moment.

For me have to be hot tea decaf, I cannot have chocolate, my body states no. I do like marshmallows, my sugar says no.

right…sorry…wasn’t listening

I don’t remember seeing the fireplace before. Why aren’t they facing it?

That is a perfect example of the use of emphasis and enunciation in English. Same phrase, with different words emphasized and different intonation.