Pickles by Brian Crane for April 02, 2012

Let me see… who was censoring Earl’s opinion’s earlier?

Hard to have a fun, meaningful conversation talking to a wall – Earl just doesn’t play anymore.

Earl would rather read the paper than conversewith Opal.

The light purple jellybeans are the worst.

I am with Earl

Beviek… I will gladly take your black jellybeans. I buy a bag of them every Easter, usually when they go on sale afterward, thanks to people like you who don’t want them…. But this year I haven’t found any.Sigh… I think that, too, sadly, is due to people not wanting them.

I like the black tongue you get after you eat them! Yum.

Define meaningful.

Now Opal, you say,“The red ones are best.”

I think we can all agree, the white ones are the worst. (I think they’re anise, ore something. Blech.)

Nope, I don’t agree, I like the anise/licorice best. After nearly 50 years, I think Crane must have a hidden camera at our home.

Nope, orange and red are the best. Black? Yuck, you guys can have them all!

Black jellly beans are the best.

Opal, at this point in life, you and Earl have probably covered all the sublects many times over.

Been together so long they have said it all, already

I buy the packages of spice flavor jelly beans. Red is cinnamon, purple clove. All good. And I do like the black licorice ones, too, when I get the non=spice variety. Anyone watching Decorah Eagles? Three chicks being fed frequently. Keeps me off the comics.

Nope, Earl’s got it right. Black licorice jelly beans are the best.

That’s easy…Mars and Venus have two different languages.

ew ewww ew ewww ewwwwwww Black jelly beans are nasty, horrid, things and I can’t understand why they make them at all! They sell those bags of entirely black ones, but do they even sell? shudder Now a bag of entirely white or pink, now THAT would be awesome. White and pink are the best.

Like taking to a brick wall with husbands sometimes.

LOL xxx

Clearly, the black ones are best. It’s the only color you can get whole bags of. Followed by green, red, orange, purple, yellow and white.

Black jelly beans ARE the BEST , Susan if I find a couple sacks of all black , I’ll buy and share with you, I’ll even eat them for you. Might find them at Wally world if you get there early enough in the season…………..

I like the green jelly beans.

If you go to the Jellybelly factory in Fairfield, CA, they sell bags of the misshapen ones: they’re labeled Bellyflops.

When I used to eat jelly beans I liked black jelly beans the best.

“Okay Opal…Let’s talk about your funeral arrangements”

Could it be that …when-EVER Earl utters a premise or states an opinion, Opal KNOWS IT’S OBVIOUS that he’s wrong, and therefore any discussion with Earl dealing with what he has just said would be MEANINGLESS. Thus, her closing comment.As a result of this strip, two things are obvious to me: 1) Opal doesn’t like black jelly beans.2) Opal thinks only she is capable of speaking “the truth.”Poor Earl; he’s married to a Chief, Judge & Jury !! … but it appears he’s comfortable with his married situation and doesn’t let Opal’s know-it-all style bother him.Now, whether or not he CONSCIOUSLY doesn’t let Opal bother him is ANOTHER question.Is my male-ness showing ??? (duh)

The only jellybeans I won’t eat are the yellow ones and black ones and the spiced ones. I put them in my husband’s jellybean jar.