Pickles by Brian Crane for December 23, 2013

Roscoe would take offense if it were “fleas on your dog.”

¡Opal habla español! Opal speaks Spanish. That’s great!

I prefer One Ton Tomato for Spanish songs…

Hole-a seenority, come have some beans?

It doesn’t have to be in another language for kids to have interesting interpretations.Recall the child who was drawing a nativity scene and put in a portly man. When his mom asked who that was, he said “Oh, that’s Round John Virgin!”

Feliz Navidad, and his brother, Julio.

ear worm. augghh!

You should hear the little kids down here trying to sing the English version of songs, like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.To all my ‘Pickled’ friends:Les deseo a todos una muy Feliz Navidad y un Próspero Año Nuevo !

I think I may have been old enough to vote before I figured out that it wasn’t “we three kings of ori and tar”.

The future of language per Isaac Asimov.

Like pelican47 says, it doesn’t have to be in another language. I think it was my niece who asked, a few years ago, why there were cheeses in the manger.

Every time I hear that song I change the station.

I’m confused. Are yall saying that ain’t how it goes?

Gotta be the most boring Christmas song ever…in any language.

I wonder if it would sound any better sung by that Just a Beaver kid.

Police, nab me dad!Police, nab me dad!Police, nab me dad!Throw sparrows on you—Hey, police, he bad!

Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer,Tax loss ripping at your clothes,Poolside Harold, being swung by a squire,And jokes messed up by extra beaux…. Paul Cardwell, Mondegreen CrispnessYes, there is the whole thing, the other two verses to Deck Us All With Boston Charlie, and more.

Love the song!

Does this strip get translated, and if so does anybody have a link to the Spanish version?

OMG, I’m exhausted from laughing at all of these comments! One of our family favorites was from Twas the NIght Before Christmas" when he “tore open the shutters and threw up the hash”!

I remember singing “Holy Infant so tender and wild . . .”

When my son was young we were in church singing We’ll work Till Jesus Comes and he said I like this song but who is Wilbur? I told my family I want this song sung at my funeral. I was forty when I had him, my fifth son. This will be a little message for him. I live next door to him and his three children, my death will be hard on them. Maybe this song will make him smile.

Pleeze nabiblah!At least, that’s how Chong said it when Cheech was trying to get him to say “Merry Christmas” in Spanish.

To this day (and I am 60 year old!) when I hear Up on the Housetop, I envision reindeer “paws.”

I always thought Nelson was 8 or so — I work in a school and it seems he’d be well beyond most of the kinder kids. He’d fit right in to 2nd grade.