Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 02, 2010

Uh, Kenny, you might want to check the calendar….

ejcapulet, I enjoyed your story about how you wound up in China.

Thanks, Marg.

Kenny is probably Chinese.

Over here, there are all kinds of weird little festival days that no one understands but everyone knows exist (so they light firecrackers at blanking 3am to celebrate).

I sometimes get the suspicion that people occasionally make up their own. At my job, the cook was making a big deal about handing out homemade dumplings he’d made for one of the many minor holidays. When I asked what was the name of the holiday, one of the other teachers said: “happy clean out the fridge day!”

Well, that sucks.

We celebrate cleaning out the fridge day, that’s where we get rid of all the moldy left overs.

Live your life like every day is a holiday.

It is a holiday, it’s Texas Independence Day!

My son who lives in Japan sent me a calendar last year that showed some sort of festival or holiday everyday somewhere in Japan. Big or little, how fun is that…

Talk to Hallmark, they’ll make one for you.

Oh, so sad ) :

For the record: That’s a kkwaenggwari.

Happy Monday Balladeers, Plods and Miss Susan! In case I don’t make it here tomorrow :-) (Yes, it’s Sunday night!)

I don’t want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=8LdLIqkmMB0

Poor Kenny wants so much to be retired.

Multiple LOLs for today’s Cleo and Company:

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Nighthawks, I never knew Claude was your alter ego!

Anyway, I like Cleo’s joke, though I hope I never have occasion to use it.

Table for sale! Cheap! Only used to lean on and tell lame jokes.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200302

I’d change the character in the “joke” to a toad.

Howdy, all….

Well, here we are, safely ensconced in March, having escaped the confusion of a shorter than normal month and a leaping year…

all more than ready for Spring… and in the nearer term… to comment on

the March 2nd  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY”

 

Which you can read on Sherpa, with Dennis or Tigressy’s link.

 

I never realised that was a table, in “Garfield” … it has no shape or edges.

It looked like sometimes they were both on the floor, but other times Jon would walk up behind Garfield, who I thought was on the floor, but would somehow be waist high to Jon.

 

Say, Cleo… if that joke doesn’t work, there are other ones that will.

Let’s see… there’s… no, I can’t use that one on GoComics…

How about the man who walks into a bar with a pa…. gosh, no, can’t do that one either.

Wm… well…. my favorite…. no… that one only works when spoken, not in print…

 

How about…. last night, I saw two guys walk into this bar, over on 7th Street….

I was sure surprised that the 2nd one didn’t duck!

 

Right you are…. lame.

 

OK, how about this:

Paint some bricks on that thing, and copy “Peanuts” instead.

Or “Pearls Before Swine” … but Pastis copied his brick wall from “Peanuts” too, cos he used to work for Charles Schulz.

Well – it is a holiday in Texas. More or less.

A horse walks into a bar and sits down. The bartender comes over and says: “Hey, buddy! Why the long face?”

Well, I did my little comics tour…

and my little unintentional comics nap…

So it’s off to bed.

 

Dry… glad to see you so often lately…

Stop by any time… but don’t forget… when you cut in line you’re too early to read “Cleo and Company.”

Allen@home, hope you stop by, too… and that you saw my comment to you yesterday.

 

And Impkins and Patsnozzle … great to see you too!

We usually have the puzzle on Saturday… and yes,

I post that link to the “solution animation” an hour or three after the puzzle. Happyx3 pasted it from my comment.

Thanks, Happyx3!

 

Noticed in my travels…

“Pooch Cafe” sometimes seems to be copying “Cleo and Company.”

https://www.gocomics.com/poochcafe/2020/03/02?ct=v&cti=1084954&comments=visible#comments

 

OK, one more before I go… even if the last one went over… not great..

This one is bit … … irreverent? …hope that’s Ok… ..….

Jesus walks into a bar, with a parrot on his shoulder.

The bartender looks at Him and says "Wow, where’d you get that? "

And the parrot squawks “Galilee”.

(Okay, Okay…. I thought we were going for lame…)

 

Oh…. I remembered another one! Aren’t you glad?

A guy walks into a bar, orders half a dozen shots of Jack and a beer chaser… and downs them all in 5 minutes.

The bartender says “whoa, whoa… why are you drinking so fast?”

The man says “Have some sympathy! You’d drink like that,too, if you just found out you have what I have.”

So the bartender sets him up another shot, and says “Sorry… do you want to tell me what you have?”

The man throws that one back too… stands up… and as he’s running for the door, turns back and says “50 cents to my name.”

 

No?

OK… ONE more…

Bucket of fried chicken walks into a bar.

Bartender says “Sorry… we’re not licensed to serve food.”

Right. … G’night, all…..

 

If I’m groaning, it must be Monday.

P.S. A once proud and principled artist (I’m looking at you @Nighthawks) has stooped to name checking the most commercialized feature in cartoonistry.

Sad.

Hey, every day’s a holiday!

Cheer up Kenny. It’s Dr Seuss’s birthday. A perfect day for walloping on your kkwaenggwari. Or playing your electro whocamio flook, whowonka, jingtingler, trumtooka, whohooper, blumbloopa, gardooka, floofllover, sllslunka, or tartooka!!!

Let’s party at the Tiki!

You talkin’ bout this bleedin’ table? I’m going to stuff this bleedin’ table up your nose!

Bring friends.

A lot of them!

Couldn’t get the evil cat next door?

Good Monday morning ballardeers!

Horse walks into a bar.

Bartender says, “Why the long face?”

Bah dum dum…. Thank you. I’ll be here all week. Try the veal and don’t forget to tip the waitstaff.

Well, I made it here, so HAPPY MONDAY again! :-D

This was a LOL Monday! First we have a kkwaenggwari, and then we have a great dung beetle joke! I love Mondays!

https://youtu.be/FyzWDl0nz00

Boo! :)

Maybe we need a table in the comments section….because there sure are a lot of lame jokes!! Funny stuff, guys!

From what I’ve seen, you have to have a cat to get on the main page. Even though it is a very evil cat next door, that evil cat would do a good job of getting Cleo on the main page. There are other comics that have been added in just the past couple of weeks. Get a cat in the comic. There are only two reasons as to why you haven’t been moved. Either the stoopids who run this place are too stoopid to get Cleo moved or they can’t find that 6 year old child to tell them how to fix Sherpa.