I wish I had something to contribute to this other than that I would not eat a clean pickle even if I was starving. . .
Only uncultured savages eat their pickles whole.
Civilized society eats them sliced and on sandwiches.
I can only assume from the fact that it was your only pickle that it was not one of those devilish baby ones. Satan’s genitalia, and four times more nauseating.
This whole thread brings to mind a most ribald lay by the renowned minstrel Francis of Zappa wherein the hero–the minstrel himself–grappels with the Devil and triumphs by grasping firmly His Dark Majesty’s own pickle.
Waverly, is “Fairly Maiden” akin to “Partially chaste?”
The only time a dropped pickle becomes off limits is if you drop it in the toilet, or a volcano.
There isn’t a volcano under your desk, is there?
No volcano, just what looks to me mouse droppings.
I think I’ll just grasp my pickle a little harder next time.
Being dropped in a toilet does not necessarily make it off limits.
The SDMB Legend TM, Giraffe, must have forseen this coming back to haunt him.
No, but the first of you turns my stomach.