Pickles by Brian Crane for June 02, 2013

Earl, if you made her violate her conscience, you just might be there helping pick the stitches out! But the NT has more to say about grace and forgiveness …

Maybe it’s time for Earl to get a new pair of pants.

Earl and Roscoe are a fairly even match of wits.

maybe it’s time Earl learned to sew his own pants! lol

Opal’s thinkin’: You know that last place you mentioned, Earl?

Part of the sunday blue-law system.

I have to agree with Earl on that one.

Two words: Diet time!

Good point Earl.

Opals mother should have told her " A stitch in time, saves nine "

Dunno about the theology of the whole thing, but I’ll bet it sure gave Opal’s mom a day off from her least favorite job….

Sewing was considered work. You did not work on Sunday. Unless your ox fell into a pit on Sunday, then you were to get him out immediately.

This strip always keeps me in stitches. And I’ve always sewn that its commentators were a tight knit group.

Opal needs a day off, she works very hard keeping the house so clean.

I have to agree there…

LOL xxx

I remember in the days before supermarkets (honest, kids!) in Sacramento, you couldn’t buy meat on Sunday. No idea what that was about. That was when meat was wrapped in pink paper by the butcher, after he weighed it out for you. I swear, it tasted better back then.

Give Opal a break on the Sabbath. Go put on another pair of pants.

I love that pillow left to Opals side… it looks like the head of a cat smile

Ooooohhhh!

Congrats to Brian Crane on his Reuben award for Cartoonist of the Year, shared with Jerry Scott (Baby Blues)!

Blue Laws were because Sundays were suppose to be a day of rest. Only food and other essentials could be sold. Anything considered work related including housework could not be bought.