Pickles & Plinth - A Vocabulary Comic

Oh, joy; I opened the Sunday comics pages this morning to find a vocabulary joke featured there, this time in the Pickles strip. Earl is learning a new word each day and plinth is his new word this particular day.

(Note: these are the last 4 frames; full Sunday strip won't fit here, but you can see it via the link above to Comics.com)

For the record here are the details on plinth:

Dictionary Definition:
Pronounced: [plinth] (just like it looks like it should sound)
Root: from Latin plinthus, from Greek plinthos meaning ‘tile, brick, squared stone.’ The Latin form was in early use in English.
1. a. the lower square member of the base of a column or pedestal.
b. a block of stone, etc., serving as a base or pedestal to a statue, bust, vase, etc.
c. the projecting part of a wall immediately above the ground; also a course of bricks or stones in a wall, above ground level, by which the part of the wall above is made to be set back in relation to the part below.
2. the uppermost or projecting part of a cornice or of a wall. Now rare.
3. a shallow wooden cabinet in which a record deck is mounted. (*Not indicated as rare, but seems like it should be, if you ask me)
4. a block sited on the floor and forming part of the base of the molding of a door or window.