Pickles by Brian Crane for April 17, 2023

That got a chuckle out of Roscoe.

An under-reported result.

I recall in the movie Ernest Goes to Jail, Ernest is a juror for his criminal doppelgänger and chews on a pen during the trial. Really made a fool of himself when trying to get the ink off himself that even the judge took notice of his shenanigan.

Caps to these pens have a small hole in them to prevent suffocation if accidentally swallowed.

Many BIC pens have a hole in the cap to prevent the pen from being deadlier than the sword.

only some pens

Roscoe’s laugh in the last panel is great!

Next: In a bizarre dream sequence, Roscoe imagines Earl and Opal join the geriatric version of Blue Man Group. (Maybe Roscoe should have his own spin-off comic.)

Or how many didn’t have a mustache before they started chewing.

Opal, they do say the pen is mightier than the sword!

I just wonder what kind of pen Earl’s chewing on that would do all that to his mustache. A fountain pen maybe?

Not a problem for me. I use pens with black ink. No mustache, either.

The lovable Roscoe is " smiling " in the last panel : )

I once swallowed one of those orange caps from an invisible ink marker. You know, those orange and white ones that come with those fun books? This was before they started putting that thing on them that can clip the marker to the book. I was doing the suction thing to make it stick to the tip of my tongue. But at one point it slipped and then GULP! It just passed thru my digestive system. Pooped it out.

I think todays strip is somewhat out of sequence. The April 12 strip showed Earl turning his mustache blue by chewing on his pen, todays strip should have been on April 13.

The Blue Mustache, great name, sounds like a joint in a 50’s film noir.

Gettin’ a lotta MILEAGE outta that mustache joke huh.???

Queue up Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt

Earl isn’t bothered by the blue mustache, but what bugs him is Opals sly facts she inserts into the conversation…LOL

The blue mustache doesn’t bother Earl, because he doesn’t see it unless he looks in the mirror.

100 people. Is that all? What an embarrassing way to go!

This is why BIC pen caps have holes in them.

When I was in grade school I remember a kid next to me trying an experiment where he sucked on the open end of his pen while it was writing to see if he could pull the ink away from the paper and make it stop writing. Nothing changed for a bit until he suddenly ended up with a mouth full of ink.

Order of the Purple Chrysanthemum: when you get an ink stain on the pocket of your white shirt because you forgot to close/recap your ink pen.

A small price to pay for art!!

Well, just take another pen apart, remove all cap innards, cut hole through trachea, insert cap, Voila, ready for doctoring.

Roscoe liked that one!