Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 20, 2010

Ted should tell him which shelf…..

In the LC Classification system, you’ll find them under call numbers SF421 - SF426.

Yeah, like a dog’s going to know anything but Dewey Decimal System.

He’s looking for fiction, something to kick back with. Gotta go alphabetical by author. Look under Ogden Nash.

Hound of the Whiskervilles.

I think he’s looking for squirrel books, actually.

In Cleveland, the females are ganging up on Claude again:

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

I sympathise. Since my boy Sango passed on, I have the last Y chromosome in this household. My wife, my daughter, my dog and two cats all gang up on me.

Ted’s just been teasing him. He knows Pepper can’t read anyway, and all the dog books in those shelves don’t have pictures in them.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200720

No need for Claude to worry – I’m sure Clara and Cleo will find a good, friendly family for him to live with.

Just take him to a wedding party and leave him at their home – it will take years before they’ll find out that he isn’t a member of their specific spouse’s family…

I can add nothing to the fine commentary on this comic ten years ago. As regards today’s ( July 20, 2020) Cleo & Company, let me say that I love the expression on Clara’s face in panel 3.

Peper has salt!

Good Morning Ballardeers! 62,383,129 days and counting. sigh

Hey Claude stop interrupting when they’re talking about you! Yeesh, some people.

Y’all watch over one another. (((((HUGS)))))

I’ll be back later to check on Susan.

…they aren’t ?

If you take a bunch of stuff off the phone, it should be lighter. Sounds reasonable. I’m trying to help you, Claude.

Hullo all…

It’s way past my bedtime…

But I want to welcome you all to the comments for the July 20th  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY”… it’s on Sherpa.

Claude may want to get a word in, too, if he can.

 

Not quite on the same level…

but I had an elderly friend, and close neighbor, who, about 15 years ago, still had a rotary dial phone.

Obviously, she couldn’t access any functions requiring “tone” service… like pushing “1” to speak to a banker.

 

I was having coffee with Dorothy one day when she told me that her daughter, who lived in another state, had offered several times to buy her a new phone….

but she didn’t want one….. because….

“I’ve had my phone number for 30 years!

All my friends know it, and I don’t want a new one!"

 

I tried to explain that the new phone would have her old number…

but she just looked at me as though I were talking crazy talk.

 

Also… when doing computer tutoring, I was amazed, then resigned,

at the number of people who, for instance, didn’t want to upgrade their word-processing program… or install a new one…

because they’d lose all the fonts that were in it….

and maybe even all their past work.

Today’s C & C?

Hmmm…Ma and Pa Clifford relax with their sweetheart, Cleo to discuss their impressions (sorry, I don’t do impressions) about how clever Claude thinks he is. We always knew how clever Claude really is.

Not.

How long did Claude’s friends laugh when he told them that his phone wasn’t any lighter? We also know who the smart one is and it ain’t Claude.