Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 28, 2009

Peggy, may I come along?

I don’t see an injuries and it looks like she does that fairly often…. hmmm…. wait for me marg! I’m coming, too!

That plane’s not going to help Peggy do any actual soaring. It makes me wonder what Peggy and her club take to help them with their “soaring”. She’s probably really headed down to the back room at the Tiki where her club usually meets.

Well, Claude, do you have anybody who needs some quick help to reach the afterlife? Especially if you’re included in the will?

Good to see the women having some fun with weird clubs of their own.

Claude, better save it, just in case. I love Clara’s fuzzy slippers!.

Something will be sore when it’s all over.

You never know. That next button he pushes could be his last. Clip it out.

Hi all…. and welcome, anybody still on the way.

You got it… this is where we post our comments on

the April 28th  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”

After reading it on Sherpa

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

An oldie this time… from before Cleo could speak out loud…. or fire a bazooka, or drive a tank….

and seemingly before Claude’s legs grew to their present length.

But the situation with coupons and trickery is still the same.

Just another catch, in a long line of them.

In fact, a few days ago, I got yet another brochure offering me life insurance for “Pennies a day”.

Most of the unsolicited life insurance offers I get in the mail fall into three categories….

There’s the “Whole Life” insurance scam…. do the math.

If you don’t die in the next 8 years or so, you’ve already paid more than the future benefit in premiums…. especially at the ages of many of us here.

If you save that amount every month, and live another 10 years, you’ll do better…. unless you prefer to bet you’ll die much sooner.

Then there’s the Accidental Death Policy…. cheaper….

but it ONLY pays off if you die in a covered accident, or lose a whole limb…. sometimes an eye.

Statistically, it’s quite unlikely.

But my favorite is the kind I got last week…. I can “protect (my) loved ones” for very low premiums…

This one is (supposedly) even from a famous company.

But you have to read pretty carefully to notice….

Sure, it’s only a few bucks a month to “protect” your little granddaughter….

but the policy is on her life, not yours!

Nighthawks, and anybody who was posting about yesterdays puzzle….

I answered very late, if you’re interested.

Meanwhile…. we ladies in Ballard County have plenty of clubs….

and they’re not “weird”.

Well, OK, they’re mostly not weird.

Plus, lots of clubs are co-ed, and still others have ladies’ auxiliaries….

an idea that seems quaint, but you can tell by the combs in the pockets and the fedoras that the men here can be a bit old fashioned.

I myself am a member of the Rodent Club, the Ladies Ikebana and Auto Mechanics Club, the Hill Street Senior Center Origami and Pilates Club, and several others….

and none of them are weird.

I’m not so sure Peggy’s plane doesn’t soar, either.

I don’t know exactly which soaring club she’s in….

and I can’t see the top of her plane.

But XTI makes some like that with small engines and a propeller on top, capable of lift….

And I know my client Cornelia Harrelson is a member of a club that glides in tiny planes,

hanging from a set-up run by the Pulley Club.

I prefer to keep my feet on the ground….

and today they’re walking to the Tiki.

Who’s coming along?

I sure am glad my “Best By” date was farther away than that coupon.

An oldie but an oldie.

I like “vintage” cartoons. Some of them are almost as vintage as I am.

I woke up this morning to about 2 inches of that S word stuff! My poor tulips are all covered! Brrr!

Oh Peggy, you know how to have fun, I am jealous! I love those fluffy slippers, “hon”!!!

yeah, it wasn’t all that funny and wasn’t drawn particularly well, so yeah …and oldie and definitely not goldie.

But that was a long time ago when I was a lowly sherpa beginning cartoonist.

now I’m a lowly sherpa cartoonist