Pickles by Brian Crane for August 19, 2024

What until he asks what BS means!

The older you get the bigger (and sloppier) your vocabulary gets.

Grampa is rad.

Ah yes, Hobnobbing with the Hoi Polloi.

I love old expressions like that.

Grandpa should have explained the word to Nelson…

That’s a word I have not heard for a while!

Seems Roscoe and Nelson think alike!

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Nelson made up his own word. Hoblob.

They’re just kibitzing.

Just love how Roscoe looks up to Nelson in the last panel.

When Nelson gets older, Earl can ask him who he likes to canoodle with.

Just don’t say you’re ‘canoodling’.

Archaic terms fly high over Nelson’s head.

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A hobbled noggin… nodding?

I always hobnob with the nabobs.

Has anyone used the expression “someone must have let the gap down” when referring, for example, a long string of vehicles that you have to wait on before you can proceed?

My spouse and I grew up in two very different households. (Thank goodness, now that I think about it.) Anyway, she speaks one language and I speak another. Even though we recognize that we both speak English, very often (she claims) I don’t understand the words that are coming out of her mouth. But I do recognize her words, just not the many layered meanings behind them. This has made for some highly frustrating conversations, believe you me.

Maybe if the kid read a BOOK once in a while…..

Earl is a erudite hobnobber.

And watch out for the gobs hobbling.

Roscoe and Nelson understand one another!

I wix up my murds on purpose sometimes.

Yep, he’s the old hobnob……..

“hobnob” is a perfectly cromulent word.

I like eating hobnobs

Just cobbling together a good hobnobbling.

“Come back tomorrow and we can chinwag.”

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I first heard about this word from the film Short Ciruit with Steven Guttenberg talking about going to a party.

Nelson ……. You’re Hobnobbing with Roscoe ……. :)

Maybe Nelson would prefer hobgoblining to hobnobbing…but I’m not sure if Harry Potter is still big with the little people…

My favorite book of words is “The Superior Person’s Book of Words” by Peter Bowler; also the sequel, the name of which I can’t recall at the moment.

I’ve heard ‘hobnob’ before.

Does Nelson really have no idea how to use a dictionary? Or even Google?