Pickles by Brian Crane for September 01, 2024

she’s somewhat punctilious about it

I hate people who are sesquipedalian.

Any day you can learn something new is not wasted Earl!

Earl keeps it simple and refers to her as something that rhymes with witch.

It’s ok Earl she can be very harridanic!

Strange device he’s using to look up the word online. It does look familiar though…

Dropping a dumbbell on someone’s foot will make him fractious.

Winston Churchill: ’I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning, I will be sober, and you will still be ugly".

Recent newspaper article:

“A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget’s Thesaurus crashed yesterday, losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and petrified.

“Meanwhile, those waiting for the shipment were at a loss for words.”

William F. Buckley, Jr. was famous for sprinkling relatively obscure polysyllabic vocabulary words into his written commentaries. It was suggested that he used fancy words even when calling his dog, Phydeaux.

But you defeated the purpose, Earl. She really thinks you’re fractious.

Are all the comics today trying to see who can use the most big words?

Apparently a woman’s work is never done. Unfortunately.

Only new to you, Earl!

Pay attention, Nelson. Pay very close attention!

Eerie. Fractious is a word seldom heard, yet it’s also today’s “Word of the Day” at the Free Dictionary. Hmmm……

Two of those definitions fit Opal to a T!

Try the thesaurus and you’ll really get the meanings

Opal needs to work on herself before she starts in on Earl.

We did great today I have not a clue what most folks posted but no politics today. Good work everyone. Have a great Sunday.

Maybe she just likes to see you get off your BUTT..??

Does she want to her the word(s) to describe HER?

Friday nights are flirty.

Oh,and like,opal is perfect? C’mon Earl,I KNOW u got this!

“Fat” is one word to describe what’s wrong with Grandma.

Fractious was written on the cage of a cat, at the animal shelter up for adoption. “Can’t Clean Litter Box Too Fractious” Guess he just wanted to play. First time he saw me I was outside the room his cage was up near the window. He was walking around tail swishing rubbing up against the cage, they say he’d never done that before. I brought him home a week later. He likes to be around what I’m doing a very smart cat. He does grab and mouth me, not hurting I’ve been accepted by him.

I knew someone like that. Ask them the following day the meaning of the word they used the previous day and they would have no idea.

Useless seems the best description to me.

This reminds me of a scene from WKRP, found the full transcript googling the keywords. The station owner called Herb and Les addle minded and obtuse. They fight over the dictionary. Les finds obtuse in Websters, “exceeding ninety degrees but less than one-hundred eighty degrees; lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility; rounded at the free end; dull”. And feels impressed he’s “rounded at the free end”.

Like pop used to say, “Tom, you can find sympathy in the dictionary between shιt and syphιlιs.”

Attaboy Earl…..

Ahhh, the things they do together..

No seas un sabelotodos.

is that why fracking is important for the economy? and now everybody is going to support it. my oh my I didn’t realize how fractious I can be. (⊙ˍ⊙)

And he’s okay with that.

She defined herself

She also took his seat.

what the FRACK !?!

My husband’s complaint used to be "if I can’t spell it, how can I find it in the dictionary?! Of course that was before Siri, or whatever. I still like the paper version myself.