Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 18, 2012

This must be that new shop I heard about. I doubt these tea-baggers stand a chance. They are, obviously, not too steeped in the Celestial Seasonings of marketing. They need to contact the public relations firm of E. Grey, Pekoe & Green.

Who opened this joint, anyway? Big Moe?

I’ll wager no one has used this name before. Shoppe is good.

It’s a mis-spelling. It should read " Hulking Lug Tee Shoppe". They sell sleeveless muscle tee shirts to big dumb lunkheads

Oh… my head…

I fell asleep before I could get home for a nap….unfortunately, while I was still posting from Bev’s party….

How embarrassing!

I was in the middle of answering Briatollah…

Wanted to say I used to live near an Arctic Circle drive-in ….. long gone.

It had the most beautiful neon sign I’ve ever seen on a hamburger place… huge, maybe 15 or 20 feet across.

One day it was torn down… replaced it with something smaller and modern and ugly….and the one I loved was ripped to bits and stuffed into garbage cans.

All these years later I still wish I’d known and could have rescued it somehow.

Meanwhile….. these guys, right?And I vote for “Oh! Brian’s!” … not that I get a vote!Meanwhile….Thank YOU, Monkey!I’ll be over to help clean up.And thank you Stel…. couldn’t have done it without you.And thanks everybody for coming, and for your help, and all that…..And thanks to BEV … for going through all that, and having a grandson… just so we could have a party!GOT to go home and go to sleep….

I suppose it’s better than “The Swaggering Brute Tea Rooms and Knife Sharpening Emporium”.

I agree with ‘Shoppe’, but with all that space on the bottom I think the sign painter must have been called away on an emergency and left out “&Tire Store”

Work is the Curse of the Drinking Class !It’s a four letter word that ends in a k.For certain Ballard Street revelers sake, let us hope that there were no paparazzi taking pictures last night, for the tabloids.

Found this one when I came out this morning, any one want to claim him? Rough Party last night.

I gave them the pretty pink flower as a gift!

I agree – Shoppe is much more refined. I hope they have peppermint tea, my favorite after coffee.

The new owner of The Hulking Lug Tea Shoppe and Dog Grooming Center drinking a special green tea blend with “Killer”, his best friend…

The Hawking Loogy is where I buy my Frog Morton pipe tobacco. It’s a stinky Latakia blend.

I thought I was done with it…but guess what ? S.S. and other stuff only goes soooo far.I’ve gone back to about 16hrs a week doing consultation and it doesn’t ( so far ) screw with the S.S.

This may or may not post. I cannot access the rest of the comments after the message: “Oops! There was a problem loading the rest of the comments, please refresh the page!”

I am so sick of this happening and GoComics refuses to do anything about it. I could sit here and refresh the page til the cows come home, and it still won’t open the rest of the page. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I can hear it now. In a deep hulking voice “You want one lump or two?”

Unfortunately, Mrs. Tea Shop Owner was in a bad mood with her husband on the day the sign painter came over and asked what the business name was.

Oh Suzi …!!! Thanks gobs fer helpin me cleen up teh tiki bar..!! An ah luvs dem plastik mug Munkeys fer teh bar..!!!Can ya order me a cupple grosses of ‘em thay wood reely fit the tiki day core… even if’n thay come wit them other colered critters…!!! Y’all wimmens always find neato gidgets n gadjets…!!Hay gotta git back to teh tiki bar… Got 9 racks o yak ribs smokin on teh smoker…!!! C’mon over layder, yer overdoo fer a gud foots rubbin..!!:())

Oops I guess everybody’s in the next block now…..OK…. I’m here…. and I’m headin’ that way!-——————————————>