Pickles by Brian Crane for November 30, 2020

You already have the dictionary out Earl at least you could have giving everybody the definition of the word. I’ll look it up latter.

Is she saying that someone lying on the couch reading the newspaper is noisy?

ob•strep•er•ous ŏb-strĕp′ər-əs, əb-►

adj. Noisily unruly or defiant. Making a great noise or outcry; clamorous; vociferous; noisy.

Synonyms: Tumultuous, boisterous, uproarious.

Keeps her busy, if it ain’t one thing it’s the other

The Pickles comic, advancing GED’s everywhere.

I’d rather be obstreperous than have osteoporosis, which is what I thought she said at first.

Tell her she is very pedantry.

He’s quite loquacious.

Well, maybe you can return the favor and look up words to describe what is wrong with her…

how did he manage that while reading?

I’m glad you’re enjoying it.

How about ‘dense’ and ‘unfunny’, Earl. Look THOSE up…

Opal there are days …. When you remind me of a female dog ;-)

….in a sort of quiet way…..Earl obstinate ….

Opal’s reading the dictionary again!

He’s President Trump???

Earl’s mother should have given that spoon to his wife.

Hey……… whatever keeps her HAPPY

Just another word that has no meaning but to the arrogant.

Where in this comic strip did politics come up? I must have missed that!

Is it cuz he ate too many beans?

I never pictured Earl as obstreperous. Obfuscatory, perhaps, but not obstreperous.

trump

When people use big words like that one, they are usually doing it to show off.

Most men are in that they “toot” much more than women. We love our men anyway.

I have some words for Earl’s wife but I’m not gonna say em.

I used to tell my nephews they were obstreperous and impertinent. They were eight and seven, respectively. They still remember, deep in their thirties.

It got him up off of the couch for a minute or two…

My mother used to call me that. It never occurred to me that I didn’t know EXACTLY what it meant. (Noisy, unruly, boisterous and defiant.) She was right.

Caleb was a very eager 1st grader. One day, he got home all excited because he had a ‘special assignment.’ He handed me a paper that said, “ask your Dad to tell you what obstreperous means.”

So I took out the dictionary and read to him. He was looking very guilty. “Caleb, have you been being obstreperous?”

I mentioned the special assignment to the teacher. She laughed. “I get to use that assignment every couple years!”

Sad to look up words to describe.

She’s a killer at scrabble, where the words really have to fit.

synonym: girlfriend

The fart I left was quite obstreperous.

sounds like most kids.

That label of Earl is incorrect, if anything Earl is the opposite.

I have twin sons that can be obstreperous!

Before Bill Cosby became a pariah, one of my favorite lines of his was on the subject of arguing with his wife: “I’ve called her some names that I was proud I even thought of! And she’s run some off on me that I’ve written down!”

Up next tomorrow: Recalcitrant.

Time for Earl to take up the hobby of insulting Opal every day! Just like she does.

Norman: You like that word, don’t you? Bu++++it.

Billy Ray: Yeah

Norman: It’s a good word

On Golden Pond with Henry Fonda as Norman

I always thought that Treperous would be a good name for a kitten.

I disagree. Earl is willful, but not rambunctious or boisterous. I don’t think the word applies.