Pickles by Brian Crane for July 23, 2022

Whoa! Time to up Earl’s meds.

I’m with Earl on these two…

He’s right, ya know.

Is this the George W. Bush news channel?

It’s like “advertisement” pronounced as /ad-VER-tise-ment/ in British and /ad-ver-TISE-ment/ in American.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY6GW-fPhpI

My pet peeve is the woman touting an exercise machine and putting an “H” in strength. " shtrength."

I don’t care at all.

I am awaiting Who and Whom to start a household war!

It seems like I’m hearing more and more celebrities on TV say the words “singer” and “singing” with a hard G (guh) sound instead of just using the “ng” sound.

They say: “Sing-Ger” and “Sing-Ging” (or even “Sing-Ging-Guh”).

What’s up with that?

Yaay! Earl understands me!

“I could care less, I suppose, but it is hard to imagine how.”

Maybe she could. Don’t test her.

Finally! Someone is taking on the hard issues.

Gee, usually it’s Opal who’s the Grammar/Behavior Nazi.

Thanks to David for having the precious Roscoe in todays cartoon because ( Eighty years ago today I was born ) : )

When did Earl join the grammar police?

And on TV, characters are always saying things like, “What will happen to you and I?” When it should be ‘me’. Has the word ‘me’ become a banned term?? It probably happened the same time ‘ask’ decided to identify as a noun.

“Anyways…”

Nuclear about caring!

Aren’t you glad you don’t know how to speak, Roscoe?

I say I COULD care less because I care even less about talking about it with that person.

We can care less!

Earl’s statement assumes she did not care at all. She might have cared just a little and decided to dump that, too.

These bother me to, alot. Get it?

I totally agree with Earl. Both of these are pet peeves of mine.

that’s what bothers the old ‘’gastric gas release’’ ?? how some talking head prononounces a werd? get oph the cowch and moov around. make it hard for the grim reaper to find you..

can’t say fahrt … might get banned from a comment … i did when eye tried to use the word Brest, the french harbor city, not the organ or even the piano,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

If on a scale of 1 to 10 you care at level 5. If you say “I could care less” you could go down to level 4, 3, 2, or 1. If you say “I Could not care less” you are staying at level 5 but you could care more.

There, their, they’re, Earl. ‘lax, dude, chill

The local network we watch for news is a horrendous mess. Wrong tenses, forms of words that don’t exist, awkward pauses and distinctly unfunny ‘personality chat’. It’s like the station where I once worked that they literally had to script banter for one of the people. We also had someone who when signaled to stretch to fit the news schedule, began speaking verrrrrry slowly.

Here goes: #1 Since when do we begin every sentence with “so” (and this is not just in the US, international speakers do it too)? #2 In school I learned to put “me” last (What will happen to you and me?) Now the speaker comes first (Me and my sister are going shopping.)(I believe this may have something to do with our narcissistic culture) #3 When speaking of a person “who”, when speaking of an object “that”. ’Otherwise, life is grand! : o)

And now for a new innovation.

I’m with Earl, it’s annoying to hear supposedly educated people on TV, mispronounce common words. Realtor and jewelry and others comes to mind.

Earls correct…

Like hearing a British person say aluminum – it has 4 syllables, not 5!

I’m with Earl on the second one. Right up there with the stupid “Proof is in the pudding” which is a shortened version of the original “The proof OF the pudding is in the eating”. Proof, of course being a synonym for “test” as when we list the “proof” of whiskey or “proof” bread dough by seeing if it rises. That’s like the ignorant “An exception proves the rule” only makes sense when proof means “test” because exceptions to a rule do indeed test that rule.

Earl, too much news will make you that way – js

Earl, you’re a true rebel. Glad for you, Earl.

Earl is turning into a grumpy old man.

Couldn’t be farther from the truth.

I like to think of it as un-cle-ar power. Everybody makes mistakes. Mine don’t last thousands of years.

Who watches the news anymore? Everything is either very one-sided or alarmist.

If Pres. Kennedy can pronounce it “noo-kyoo-ler”, I can too!

One word, caramel

Whoa! This one hit a nerve. I’ve never seen this many comments on a comic before, not even the political comics.

No, because now I do care even less then I did a moment ago. Switch to de-caf.

I always prefer the every popular and thought provoking, “You can’t know how little I care.”

Maybe she could care less, but she doesn’t want too, too much work!

That’s my husband.

A long “road” to h0e. Grrr.

no, really, i think i could care less if i tried

yeah? well you have another ‘thing’ coming !

Wow – when did he become so anal..??

Jew-luh-ry for Jewelry

There aren’t enough words in the language to express my approval of Earl’s stance on this one! Also: “jew-el-ree,” NOT “jule-er-ee.” “For all INTENTS AND purposes,” NOT “for ALL INTENSIVE purposes.”

I could do this alllllll day!

I could care less and I do!

Remember the book titled “Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation”. It had a couple of Pandas on the cover…

Gee, it’s almost like there may actually be regional differences in how words are pronounced and what idioms are used!

And while I admit that “nu-cu-lar” irritates me to no end, that doesn’t change how it has been pronounced for years in some places.

As for "could/couldn’t care less – I was a teenager the first time I remember hearing “I couldn’t care less”, and I thought the person was just wrong. Where I grew up, it was always “I could care less”.

Maybe Earl needs to get out and about more.

Don’t feel badly about it.

and I bet she says eck-cetera and uses adjectives when adverbs should be used

As a native of Chicago, since I’ve moved to MN they tell me I pronounce “Volvo” and “sorrow” incorrectly. But they pronounce “Aunt” and “ask” incorrectly, so we’re even.

Was he an English teacher?

Earl has never been more right!!! Right there with ya today!

Right with you Earl, not to mention jewLAry instead of jewelry, and reLAtor, instead of realtor. The most annoying are the ones who work in those fields and can’t even pronounce them right!

And Bur-gu-lar instead of burg-lar

You Go Earl!!!

espresso anyone?

I like the strip. Yet if I were a woman, I would be upset that Opal is always portrayed as such a beahtch.

Here’s one I read last night in a medical article, clearly written by someone not in the medical field – “…it was took by….”

There’s nothing that can stop youFrom becoming nucu-ler… larLa la, la la!We’re gonna make you nuc-you-lar!