Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for February 25, 2019

Yes, it most definitely is.

He flipped out, man! (The Tower, XVI)

He completed 4 coffee rolls for breakfast and that’s made him over confident.

He felt that he just had to kick up his heels a little bit. The drinks at the retirement party might have had a little bit to do with it.

His bargain with Mother Nature fell through, and the Earth Lucyed him!

I blame the cardboard pants inserts. It’s well known that aerodynamically speaking, you can’t get the forward roll high enough with them. Hence the face plant.

That and the fact that his butt alone weighs 245 pounds. Well….

Spring Fever! Made him think he was young again, before he needed those inserts to present a properly flat Ballard Butte.

His wallet seems pretty thin, though. I hope he can afford to pay for the repairs to Mrs. Higgenpooter’s lawn.

Poor Mr. Chambers.

People are laughing at him.

Well, I don’t think it’s so gosh darn amusing.

I’m going across the street, to try to help him pick up his wallet, and that credit card he’s about to lose….

before some passerby gets a real charge out of it.

This actually occurred last Tuesday. He thought the gravitational pull of the supermoon would give him the extra lift he needed to complete it this time.

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He was wrong.

Not sure if this is where Jerry gets his ideas or these people have been reading too much Ballard Street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piQT_v7TChU

The hemp leaves he’s been using. Looks like he’s dropped some

LOL!…there is nothing quite like a twenty-something’s faith in their own fitness/invulnerability that can come crashing down, quite

literally

gravity…..don’t mess with it!

Leave him be. Everyone has their own definition of complete these days.

It’s that cinder block body build that gives him all the tumbling capabilities of Frankenstein.

Well, at least he had the foresight to try that in the lawn, and not on the concrete walk.

Either that lawn had a hole in it, or Chambers head just said hello to his kidneys.

Some people shouldn’t be allowed to think.

Second childhood. At 65 I thought I could still skateboard. I saved face by not falling but every one of those muscles I hadn’t used in years screamed in agony for two days. I feel Chambers’ pain in refusing to be old.

The forward thinking was at least a good thing.

He must have completed it. Afterall, he isn’t still doing it, is he?

I put on a snowsuit and went out on the lawn to make a snow angel a couple of years ago…and then found, to my dismay, that I couldn’t get up

This is what happens when you square your shoulders……

“’Cause he had hi-ig-gh hopes”, is the answer…

I saw the whole thing! I believe that once the unfortunate Mr. Chambers is righted, you will find a Scuffy mark underneath (and Scuffy may still be there)…

What indeed… but now the problem at hand is how to right the ship before some dog thinks you are a fire hydrant.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Forget get the idea that he could " complete " a forward somersault, what in the world gave him the idea that he could even start one ??

He stayed at a Holiday Inn last night ?

He could not possibly do a successful somersault with the flat cardboard piece in his pants. Cardboard has never been "roller-friendly)…

No…the question is “Why does Mr. Chambers have a rectangular butt?!”

Mr. Chambers doesn’t quite get the concept of sticking the landing.

Random Weird Juxtaposition Number 94,315

This is in my “Comics I Follow” queue immediately after “The Last Mechanical Monster.” The similar images in today’s offerings is kinda goosebumpy.

Is that the mother of all, ah, gas-passings being depicted there? I know that happens whenever I try a forward roll, myself.

I think a gopher got him by his tie.

Mr. Chambers feels he just lost face there.