Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 14, 2009

That would be a big ‘NO’!

She remembers her days in the navy UDT’s.

Your fate is sealed, Sandra.

I think it depends on what her abilities are.

It is if you can breathe underwater…

I’ve gotta get a doughnut dress like that!….

Isn’t Randy Newman’s song the first Cleveland carol?

Here’s the link to Cleo & Co:

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

Claude and Cleo ganging up on a well meaning visitor!

Sandra, I don’t really think it’s your “abilities” we’re talking about here. It’s your feet.

Over in Cleoland, isn’t that the guy who always comes by the house with any petitions, nominations, appeals, etc.? I could swear I’ve seen him before. Nice touch having him think Columbus Day is about Columbus, Ohio. Cluelessness is funny when it’s fictional.

Only if they’re use for pure evil.

I don’t think you’ll be seeing him again…until Cincinnati day.

The other day I said I had lived in Cleveland as a child…

Technically, it was a Cleveland suburb called Cleveland Heights.

If the motion comes to pass, would Cleveland Heights be included in the celebration of Cleveland Day, or would they have to petition for, and celebrate, a separate holiday?

I’d hate to sign this petition, buy a Cleveland tree, to honor my old neighborhood…. and then find out my decorations were all wrong.

 

And what about Shaker Heights? Would we let them join in?

Would Cincinnati want a day, too? What about Akron?

Would the Ohio Statehouse have to fly everybody’s flag on the proper day?

 

What if two cities serve mostly the same food… how could they distinguish their own holiday dinners?

Who gets to claim lox and bagels?

I’m not signing any petitions till I know!

I’m looking at Sandra, wondering where in the world she’s planning to use any abilities that require swim fins….

If you’re planning to swim down the drain, Sandra… your abilities won’t matter at all anyway…

Unless you have the extraordinary ability to inhale hard, and reduce your girth to a 1/2" diameter.

In which case no.

Surely you’d do better dedicating it to science, or selling your skill to private industry, or … I dunno… in the circus?

 

Yesterday, I mentioned a strip in which J Van A demonstrated why there aren’t many children on Ballard Street.

Finally found it…. it has fewer kids in it than I remembered but the punchline is about right…

 

https://assets.amuniversal.com/7c1a773084470131032a005056a9545d.gif

LOL…

 

Grog… I dozed off while typing my last comment….

didn’t realise till I just came back that you’d also posted about Cincinnati Day!

They scared that pollster. He didn’t even get a chance to ask for a donation to get Cleveland day started.

Good one to day guys. I’m speechless

Word has it that Cleveland Day carouser Carl Cooper caparisoned his kitchen cabinets with copper clappers.

Apparently Sandra’s abilities don’t stretch to repairing the leaky sink…

I visited Cleveland once for a long weekend to see the last home game of the then Cleveland Browns before Art Modell shipped them off to Baltimore to become the Ravens. Unfortunately, the Brown lost to the Steelers 20-17. It was a sad day for the loyal fans of Cleveland.