Pickles by Brian Crane for January 25, 2016

Earl’s going to be missing some of his front teeth in a moment.

I’m writing this comment at 11:40pm Sunday. I had to wait about a week for an eye doctor appointment to get my glasses either fixed or replaced (along with just an exam).

It’s going to be right cold sleeping on the couch tonight (and the next several nights).

Why is it ok to poke fun of mountain people and use terms that are meant to be demeaning like “Hillbilly”? It is ignorant and not funny. Would you have used terms for other classes of people like; well I am sure you get the point.

and git that possum started for dinner

Sometimes, our sense of humor gets in the way of our common sense !I’m afraid that, in Earl’s position, I’d have made some smart remark, as well.

Yup, that happens to me. Use denture adhesive until you can get to a dentist.

Red alert, Earl! Shields up!

I was raised on the Oregon Coast, near Florence, and we said “crick” and crawdad. In fact, everyone around there talked that way. We certainly were not hillbillies, at near sea level!

My upper plate broke, and my regular dentist – as well as everybody else I called – wanted two weeks to repair it. I found one man in the Yellow Pages (remember them?) who specialized in emergency repairs; he said if I could be there by noon (it mas now 11:30) he could have them back by 5 PM. I “put out he wings” and made it. Stayed with that dentist until he retired.

When you go to the crick, watch out for the snicks.

I know how Opal feels. My front 6 teeth are a bridge. While I had the temporary, I looked like a toothless old crone without it.

http://grammarist.com/usage/crick/

Better be careful, Brian. You are going to hurt the feelings of hillbillies. Next thin you know we’ll have a “Hillbilly lives matter” movement.

I have had 8 injections in my gums to have teeth out because of crowding.

Never again.

xxx

coming from a philly suburb a crick referred to a creek so tiny that it did not deserve two vowels. one a small child could walk across safely

What’s Obamacare have to do with her eye doctor making her wait a week? There are doctors who accommodate, and those who don’t.

Keep your political ideas out of the comments, please.

We figured (okay, figgered) out in Colorada that a crick is a creek less the water.