Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 03, 2023

That’s not the type of spooning she was thinking of

All right. Fork ‘em over.

Albert is a descendant of Union Gen. Benjamin ‘Spoons’ Butler. For those of you not into history, he was widely accused of stealing silver spoons while in charge of the occupation of New Orleans during the Civil War.

That is a closeup I could do without.

He’s blue, is that The Tick? (only a Tick fan would get that joke)

He is good. He managed to purloin them without any of the other guests noticing.

It beats sitting on forks.

“Oh, a spoonful of honey makes the medicine go down…..”. He obviously is very sick.

Guest what happened to the spoons.

That’s one way to get the guests to leave early, remove the silverware.

Chester’s souvenir-spoon-collecting obsession takes a dark turn.

Someone stuck them in his back pocket.

They’ve gone to the Matrix (“There is no spoon”)…

The Paranormal Institute for Spoon-Bending has raw-material canvassers everywhere.

Good morning Balladeers!

Albert is a member of a band and plays the spoons. At the end of the concert he gives spoons to his fans.. so he’s always in the market for more spoons.

Oh, that General…….

Somewhere, somehow he got the “wrong end of the stick” about “spooning”.

spoon hog!

The ladies are looking particularly vibrant today. :)

Albert/Chester spoons alot, then hands outs spoons as keepsakes.