Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 28, 2016

FEED ME!

It looks bitter and twisted.

Rooty toot toot

Rooty toot toot

We are the boys from the institute

We don’t smoke

And we don’t chew

And we don’t go with Ballard Street girls that do.

Based on earlier Ballard Street themes, it might be better if he confines that “root vegetable” in a well-constructed pentagram. I’ve seen some mighty rough scenarios involving a runaway root vegetable.

…not necessarily on Ballard Street per se, but you can never be too careful. Once they start to proliferate, they spread pretty quickly.

This is the only strip I follow where people are home tonight!

Farside, now you’ve got that ditty stuck in my head. But where does that leave Rose and Bev and, especially…Susan?

As Goofy would say….

“Gwarsh” ….

maybe I shouldn’t make the joke I was almost about t….um….. never mind.

 

I mean, now that I have this reputation for good taste to uphold…….

 

Rose…. I see that look on your face……..

you be quiet.

 

Meanwhile……

I’m wondering whether King Cassava there has been planted upside down.

 

And also whether Harold has, at his age,

embarked on a search for his roots.

“I am your God. Worship Me.”

“What should I call You?”

“I Yam.”

King Triffid!

His Root Vegetable ??

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YUCCA !!

Poppa’s probably pretty potty…

Susan

I would NEVER!………….well………

Dennis

Just because you’ve seen me in the Ballard Smoke Shoppe and Lace Emporium doesn’t mean………..Do you know that “chew” comes in fruit flavors……not that I have first hand knowledge you understand.

 

Why Hello Mrs, Higglepooder! I didn’t see you standing there! I was just…um…talking about fruit pies…yeah that’s it.

Mrs. Higglepooder grows them too, you know.

 

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Sometimes I worry about Jerry, our cartoonist.

Looks an awfully lot like a sugar beet. A small sugar beet.