Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 18, 2011

Dynamite, perhaps?

Nancy wants to have a sit

Yeah, and the elephant needs to be in Africa.

She should get over it.

Gene has focused on his immediate environment. Nancy just needs to get him to expand his perimeter.

Clara is making it difficult for Cleo to sleep:

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

He’s not environmentally friendly.

Dang! I thought I wanted to be a shark, but now I want to be a vending machine. I’m so confused….

A warning for everybody!

In the Jan 18th, 2021 “Cleo and Company” on Sherpa.

Do not trust vending machines… It’s apparently not only your quarters they’re apt to steal….

They’ll even take your LIFE!

Cleo is terrified… with a certain amount of good reason….

remembering all the vending machines she has shaken, kicked…..

or just slid a sneaky paw up into from the dispensing tray, to steal its contents without paying.

They’re out to get her for sure!

But she’s never seen one attack on dry land…

So…. since Clara said “twice as likely as by a _shark”…._ she pictures that the machines also attack in the water.

And she ought to be safe from the ones in public buildings.

If that’s true, you can relax, Cleo… whether or not you deserve it.

And the rest of us probably can too.

Because even if what Clara’s reading is true,

You’ve never encountered a shark….

And yet, you’re probably TEN times as likely to see a SHARK in the water, be it Cuyahoga County or Ballard County…

As you are to see a vending machine swimming by.

Gene heard that the right type of light will make his hair grow. It’s been 3 weeks now, and he thinks that he feels just a smidge of fuzz starting.

Much of what’s sold in vending machines isn’t environmentally friendly either.

My question for Nancy, up top, is “Why?”

Trying to think of suitable music to herald a vending machine attack.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20210118

It could be worse…

https://youtu.be/b3uIKzgcDxo

Nancy should just pull the plug.

Question: If Claude’s eyewear is really the rearview mirror stolen from a ‘57 Studebaker by the cheapskate producers of Cleo & Co., from what or where was Clara’s eyewear stolen?  

Also, that thing sticking out of Clara’s ear:

1. Jewelry?

2. 1952 Sonotone Model 1010 hearing aid?

3. Worst case of earwax ever?

Good morning, Ballardeers! Q Dtae: 311.98648.64 National Peking Duck, Thesaurus, and Winnie the Pooh Day. Along with MLK.

Gene , Gene is no longer the dancing machine. Sad

Most of the stuff in vending machines will kill you over time.

Y’all eat duck, think of another word for it and try not to step in sumthin on the way out. (((((Hugs!)))))

none of the above.

it is the worst case of covfefe ever

Dang! That looks nice! Why would Gene want to leave that lovely space.

Edger needs a space that nice.

Go ahead. Stick your arm in there. See whatcha gets back.

Oh great. Now I have to add “Fear of Vending machines” to the list. (I can’t remember the last time I ever used a vending machine!)

Claude wishes he was that vending machine. Have you checked with Arcamax or Washington Post to see if they will put Cleo on their web site? Replay All was put on Arcamax and Washington Post. Maybe one of them will put Cleo on their site in March.