Pickles by Brian Crane for January 25, 2024

I’ll sit with you Earl!

One kazoo serenade is enough. It does not need a reprise.

A kazoo serenade? No wonder Opal kicked him out for the duration. He should’ve gone with Amazing Grace on the kazoo with a few of his friends. Go to YouTube and search for “Record breaking kazoo choir challenge 2008 amazing grace”

Cunning strategy employed here by Earl.

I would think a kazoo would be better than a paper/towel/comb serenade!

Earl seems more the concertina type.

The fictional composer P.D.Q. Bach (his creator, Peter Schickele died just last week) wrote several compositions which included a kazoo: the Serenude, the “Erotica” Variations, and The Seasonings. He also wrote for a number of unusual (to say the least) instruments, such as the double-reed slide music stand, the Oscar Mayer wiener whistle, the Shower hose in D, and the Windbreaker. And he wrote the Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons.

He really should’ve headed to “Moe’s Tavern.” He could, still….

Breach of promise suits were common in the Victorian era. (See Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury to see the trope.) I’m pretty sure a kazoo or bagpipe serenade under the lady’s window at 3:00 a.m. would have been grounds for the judge to say the woman was better off without him.

How about impolite society?

nothing impolite about a KAZOO – “bless you”, Diamond Lil

I thought that Earl would have taken the opportunity to walk Roscoe.

I would TOTALLY like to see that…..

Poor Earl. at least he could have taken Rosco for a walk while he was out of the house. Poor Rosco!.

lol

Playing the kazoo sounds harmless unless it’s played from the other end.

Earl, what makes you think Opal and her friends are "polite society?’

I’d have gone to bed for a nap, but that’s just me.

Earl doesn’t seem particularly fit, period.

Then there was the time he played his armpits!!

Earl is lucky to be away from Opal’s crowd. They speak a different language from him, and he’d find it very boring.

I am a multi-instrumentalist; I do, in fact, have & play a kazoo – but when I was in The Cosmic Sh!ts & Giggles Jug Band (1979), Rosie played kazoo; I played nose flute.

No kazoo’s in Opal’s house…..

I once wondered if a Kazoo could be mechanically automated – and somebody built one – it’s called the Seamoons (instrument) – and was used in the Psycho Mob 100 and Gantz animations to great effect.

Does a kazoo sound anything like a vuvuzela? Hate those things at soccer games.

LMAO! I have a collection of Kazoos…Hysterical!

Apparently, I tAlK tOo MuCh AbOuT mY bOwEl MoVeMeNtS!

We all love Opal, but she was wise to avoid such competition.

yeah, get your bagpipes out

Take your pets to the basement like I did when my wife was a Girl Scout Leader.

Earl specializes in kazoo serenades with accompanying flatulence.

… really? Sheesh…some people…