Pickles by Brian Crane for July 10, 2022

Good try anyway, Opal.

Earl’s channeling one of the Pearls Before Swine characters?

Cheesy

I think I know someone named Witty Banter.

At his wit’s end.

No no, do go on!

…I like cheese too.

That boat has sunk at anchor.

They’re only a room of scriptwriters away from a sitcom.

That was not witty, something that rhymes with witty but not witty.

Life without the laugh track.

I guess the conversation’s topic wasn’t Gouda nuff for her.

When I want to change the subject, I use lines like, “You know something? I like Puppies.”

He just cheesed her off.

I don’t think Opal really knows what she wants. She suggested having some witty banter, but as soon as he starts it she shuts it down.

You want witty banter, you turn on Pat Sajak.

Change the topic to chocolate, Opal. You can monologue on chocolate and Earl can monologue on cheese.

Roscoe would have made this funnier. Where is Roscoe?

can’t blame the guy for trying.

“like you see on TV”? I’d like to know what she’s watching, cuz it sure isn’t on my TV these days

Love to see where the “cheese” conversation went.

She took him by surprise…no fair Opal!

I love the scenes when there’s an awkward silence and then both persons talk at once. A classic is from an episode of the Honeymooners , Alice’s Aunt Ethel, in which Ralph tries to marry her off to Freddy the butcher to get rid of her

Be careful what you ASK for…… you just might GET it.!!

One Easter Sunday, I had the radio tuned to a classical music station, but my attention was on what I was doing with my computer. Handel’s Messiah was on, when I heard them singing “We like cheese.” I Googled it. It’s a common case of misheard lyrics.

gouda one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa0bCzwSNA0

They make it look so easy in the movies. Maybe it is easier with a chihuahua on a lead and a dead body on the parlor floor.

It took a lot of thought for that to come out!

Wallace loves cheese. Watch Wallace and Gromit.

She likely meant like in her Soaps. As for me, I’d suggest a topic like, our first time….

If you’re making the actors analogy, time to call out “Line!”

Sounds like hubby and I on talk, we are 41 years married, he retired early age 62, much older now, now I try to get him to speak up and I tell him we are talking. We ran out of anything to say. Talk about commercials if they are funny. One does not air as much, about Golden Retrievers driving a car with their babies that one is always great. Or commercial when have rummies because the rate is cheaper. One wife comes home and two men in the kitchen ranting fun about ice cream, hubby comes home with their daughter thinking eye roll good grief, the dad goes to mom and they start to dance.

Something similar happened to me last week. I wasn’t giving my wife the silent treatment – or anything like that – I just couldn’t think of anything to say, so I didn’t say anything. After a few hours she accused me of being mad at her and not talking to her. Well, she wasn’t talking to me either, so I don’t know why it’s my fault there was silence.

Cue the laff-track.

earl likes to cut to the cheese…

Most of my friends, and all of my relatives, if asked to say something witty, would immediately say,“Something witty.”.

He talks more than I do