Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 12, 2014

Yeah! Looks like Phyllis is coaching Reggie on body parts too.

It’s puzzling….she could be telling Reggie to go ahead and bite her knee instead of Papa’s sore ankle….

Or… to climb onto her knee, cos Papa (Walter) can’t lift him right now…

Or… could “take a knee” be their personal slang for… something like…drop to your knee, as she herself is doing, and take a break?

Always pies….and for those who ask…. the Tiki is always open!

At this time of night, we have around 10 varieties of my pies left at the Tiki… usually there are about 20 fresh for breakfast…unless you’re an earlybird like LadyKat or StelBel who comes in before they’re all baked….

Let’s see…I try to stay caught up at all times with banana cream cos of the monkey, key lime, cos it’s so popular… apple, for me…. raspberry, for Red….

And tonight there’s blueberry, boysenberry, peach, chocolate mousse, blackbottom, and…. who ate all the cherry?

Little monkeys! Those are cherries… not boxing gloves.

Please! Don’t waste my pies!

br>No… don’t put them back… nobody wants to eat them now… and the crust is all broken.

I know you’re sorry…. just go wash your hands and ask Mrs Beviek what she’d like, please.

That’s adorable!

Susan, I can never figure out if I’m here early or late when I’m here.

beviek said, about 7 hours ago@Shikamoo!Speaking of body parts………--Lol! I commented on CD BEV.

That Basset video is so funny.

LadyKat said, 34 minutes ago@SusanSunshineI’ve never had boysenberries? What do they taste like?-—I think we picked those near Georgian Bay LadyKat. Not sure, but like black berries without the hollow inside. SUSAN? Am I remembering the same berry?

SIX, need hair of the DOG to remember last night?

Glad you enjoyed it Dogsniff!These parties wouldn’t happen without the initiative of STEL and SUSAN, and then all the talented posters we have on Ballard Street.

Number Six said, about 5 hours agoAlbert sets out to revisit the Northern France battle fields of WWI in this classic episode of Steptoe & Son. Link.-—Wonderful, SIX. thanks!

As I remember, Boysenberries are kinda like blueberries or huckleberries. Anyone help clarify this?

Tiny evil seeds.You want the jelly, not the jam.

Good morning everyone. Peace. :)

Coach would say, ‘take a knee’ if he wanted us to kneel down on one knee and be quiet, as he had some thing to say and it was going to be a long while[no figgeting]. IMO ;0 Peace.

Take a haunch, Reg.

Reggie should walk softly and carry a Big Stick!

Obviously no sports fans here!

Hi Everyone! I’m back from our vacation, and we timed it right. Huge wind storm last night and at 5am a big “POP” so a tree (or limb) behind us came down. Haven’t found it yet, but then again I’m not going out there to look. (its 31 with gusts to 56mph) Ice and snow to follow later today.I guess some of you are in the same weather.It was 75/80 degrees in So. Cal. Sigh.Susan: is it too late for breakfast? What’s on special?

Boysenberry image, showing the solid middle, unlike a hollow blackberry.

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So everyone but me seems to know who the Ballard Street characters are and how they relate. Is there a program or handbook I should be studying?

BTW, I learned about “take a knee” from Mister Holland’s Opus — a great source for sports metaphors!

Thought the artist was sneaking in a weird reference to that Will Smith bomb of a movie “After Earth” since ’Take a knee" is practically chanted all through the movie.

Gosh, Bev…. were the little monkeys acting up? They can be …um…. playful.

They’re not usually on the day shift…. I keep them on nights, so I can watch them till I go home… and the Fireman stays through their whole Thursday night shift.

Also, they’re a little scared of Antonio, the tiger, one of the day bartenders, so I don’t put them on his shift.

But they adore the Monkey, and he has so much to do this week…. we thought they’d be helpful…. I hope they are!

I would love a piece of Key lime, Susan, if there still remains enough. It would go very well with the glass of gin I’ll take to bed. I think I may have met a good man. Time will tell. We just hung up our chat.

LadyKat…. You always get here early… I would say, cos you’re just getting up.but I’m up so late that it’s morning to many people…especially in your time zone…

The Tiki only has two official shifts, night and day, very approximately 6 to 6, cos most of the staff can handle 12 hours…As the only human, except for the Fireman on Thursday nights, I need more sleep, and have to cut that a bit short at both ends.

It’s impossible to measure it all exactly, cos Ballard St is VERY long…the customers are all over the world…and the staff live in different time zones.Any meal, any time…. breakfast, brunch, elevenses, lunch, dinner, tea, supper, we don’t care what you call it.

If you want a breakfast special at 3am or 6pm, or elevenses when I think it’s 9pm…. it doesn’t matter, unless we’ve run out of a particular item for the nonce… but we do our best to accommodate everyone.Even vegans…as long as you’re very clear to the wait staff that you don’t consider yak or cod a vegetable.

And if you’ve ever eaten berry jam from the US, or frozen pie, you’ve probably had boysenberries. They’re a lot like blackberries, but longer, sweeter, and I think, more flavorful.

Shika…. the blackberries around here are not hollow… the only hollow berry I know is the raspberry.

I have blackberries in my yard… in this area, they can be invasive weeds…. it’s harder to NOT have any than to have some.

Most people root them out… I leave a small bush, for a few berries to eat…. and have to cut it back, chase away the suckers that pop up all over the place…get scratched by brambles… a lot of work for a handful of fruit!

USB bunnies.

The blackberries I’m familiar with are not hallow. They have a core.I have heard of black raspberrys.

The Canadian Blackberry.

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The other Canadian black berry, or black raspberry:

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2Old…Welcome home!

Sorry I misunderstood the other night… I hadn’t realised you were still on vacation….. but then, it was when I’d just worked the election, and my brain was fried, so I wasn’t realising much of anything…. LOL

And oooops… I meant to address the answer about mealtimes at the Tiki to you, as well…. sigh…but it applies to everybody, anyway.

And JPSteve… yup, we make it up on the fly…The only thing most of us agree on is that oi one person names them, those who follow that day don’t change it.You’ll find that the dogs are more recognisable than the humans…. though even there, it’s not written in stone.There are a few almost consistent canine characters… and even fewer humans who look almost the same the next time you see them….

Scooter, High Chief, Scruffy… several more, especially Miss Millie High Maintenance… we sort of know them, but their ownership may vary.

Hmmm…. well, that first kind of Blackberry, I’ve never tried….. they also call it a crackberry…. LOL…The second is what we call a black raspberry….

wouldn’t you say, Happy?

What we call blackberries look rather like your boysenberry picture…but the bushes make a dense bramble…

They’re not ripe if they still look at all reddish.

JPSteve…Nice that Bev sounds so willing to share the Fireman….. when she’s talking to a man….Cos when she’s speaking to the rest of us “BS ladies” she refers to him as HER Fireman.

And, yeah Bev… that’s how the berries are to us in N Ca…but no one here would call an expensive black raspberry a blackberry…cos to most people here, blackberries are very common.They still charge a lot for them in the store, if you buy them…they’re hard to pick, and ship, being so perishable..but you can drive out towards the coast and pick them, and usually nobody cares.

I used to go pick them around the back of a dentist’s parking lot, on the weekends, near where I worked… they said it was ok.

Amazing! I really thought the Ballard Street characters were “real”(Wikipedia seems to think so too!) Thanks to all for the clarification.

I think I’ve got a handle on the other kinky characters here, Dazz — even the borderline real ones like Fenton and the Fireman. (Unless Susan and StelBel tell me we’re having a birthday party for one of them…)

Wow… a birthday party for Fenton….what a good idea…

No….. maybe not…he’s pretty reserved… and he’d probably find that entirely too personal.

And dogs have… you know…a lot of siblings….

Our back garden consists of nothing but blackberries…… we call them weeds.

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Good morning Balladeers and Tigressy!