Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 15, 2010

These folks are too cheap to buy anything that costs more than $1.95….

This place looks like they hired a beaver to decorate it.

Hmm, decor… sure… whatever.

That’s just a fancy way of storing firewood to dry.

I called the beer can pyramid in my dorm “art”.

This is how they deal with the debris from the backyard they get whenever the wind blows………

It’s a low-tech reading lamp.

At least the chains aren’t rusty…or are they?

Claude has given me a haddock

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200415

In that last panel, I visualize Claude with a haddock over his head. All fresh and wiggly. Animated.

Different ending of the dialogue then of course.

Their bird of prey hasn’t returned from its daily rounds yet.

It has been ten minutes since his host went off to get him a glass of water, and Ned feels like the furnishings are getting closer…

Face it Claude, without Cleo as your straight man, this strip would flounder. (Uh-oh, I hope I have not unleased a barrage of fish puns from you-know-who).

Hi, Cleo pals…

Walleye always gave Claude the benefit of the doubt… but today he’s trying to give the poor fish seller a haddock on porpoise… oh yeah… what a cod! …

It’s in the April 15th  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY”

I’m not here to carp… but salmon oughta tell him to wait a minnow,

and think about whether to scale it back with crabs like that….

especially if you can sea they’re floundering to get the joke.

Sole let this be a lesson, Claude!

(As if he won’t tuna deaf ear to me, and pretend he’s hard of herring!)

My Favorite Part™ was

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Day 33 and up to 2" of snow predicted.

Yee freakin haw!

GOOD MORNING BALLARDEERS

I am so tired of snow! Luckily it’s only an inch, but it looks like more because the wind blows it all over the place.

So, why don’t I ‘clam’ up and get on with my day.

I’m surprised that the guy didn’t shove a haddock down Claude’s shirt. Cleo would have liked it.

They took off U.S. acres and Garfield minus Garfield and didn’t even leave the old ones for us to read.