Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 23, 2010

If that’s what it takes.

Works for me…

That didn’t work on me after the sixth time.

I hate today’s cartoon. I’m in the midst of trying to get a leak stopped in my bathtub faucet and having the devil’s own time getting it done. I come here for escapism – not real-world reminders :-)………………………

I hope she doesn’t use that method to get him to clean the floor.

Oooooh! Licorice jelly beans? I’m on it!

Claude, even Cleo could probably explain to you how to use that toilet brush.

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the March 23rd  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY”

 

on Sherpa:

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

 

….which is juuuust a little….um…. ewwww-y.

The very thought of that brush cleaning the toilet and then being used…. agggh … yeccchh…. I can’t go there.

Especially right now, when all the talk everywhere is about sanitation of surfaces and staying away from germs

 

All I can say is, this proves, as if there were any doubt… that this cartoon is done by a guy.

Of course, there a far fewer women artoonists… and a few an be a bit off-the-wall… but I don’t think even Teresa Burritt would make this joke.

I’m sure Ms. StelBel, ladylike as she is, not only didn’t collaborate… (she never does, anyway, on the non animated M-W-F-Sa-Su strips)…

but kept a proper social distance from the premise.

 

That reminds me… I hate the term “social distancing.”

We NEED social closeness…

like we have here on Cleo… and like you have with your friends and family and colleagues and whoever else gets you through the day…

in this time of what they should all “PHYSICAL distancing.”

I’m not going to socally distance myself from you guys!

As long as for now, you stay 6 feet away.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200323

That “joke” is as old as toilet paper and ~brushes.

But what’s his excuse?

Gee, thanks for sharing that with us.

you’re right, Susan. Stel wanted nothing to do with this one…and last night I deliberated just deleting it…because Stel dismissed

this as ‘bathroom humor’………but in the end , even though it might burn, I ran it anyway—-it’s only one day.

After all, Garfield’s big gag today is that he is shifting his sleeping position and calling it ‘the times they are a changing’

In a way, this could be topical, because of folks hoarding TP and clearing the TP shelves.

Then Clara’s ‘bathroom tool’ might be a substitute to a TP shortage……

Good morning Balladeers, Plods and Miss Susan!

I guess someone has to make a TP joke.

But, ewwwwwwwwwwwwww anyway. Claude isn’t exactly running with a full roll.

Claude deserves every bit of that burning!

Cleo is over in the corner just rolling her eyes and trying to keep from laughing.

He gets the rest of the bag when he finishes with that.

A Brief History of Toilet Paper, By The History Guy.

https://youtu.be/IVTRpTHPs3o

Fun stuff. :)

When he finishes setting down the trail of jelly beans, he gets his inducement? :)