Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 31, 2025

Yes, Shirley adds ingredients to the beans and the next day Steve tries to guess what they were.

say it … one of you farted and hates to admit it ….

We’ve been saying they smell for years. What’s that? THEY smell. With their noses. Oh,….never mind….

They need to reread the instructions on aroma therapy.

It drives Phydeaux nuts. They tried to put one of those mask contraptions on him once . Never again. He just rolls his eyes now, and mutters to himself: “Amateurs.” (pun intended)

TODAY’S LIMERICK.

On Ballard Street masks are enforced,

To protect them from Covid of course!

Conspiracy geeks,

Say the future is bleak,

And claim Chinese whispers is the source.

Thought they were putting on the feed bag.

What are you cooking that potentially smells so badly?

She appears to be poised to prepare/

Some extremely malodorous fare/

And he’s unaware/

And she doesn’t care..

But he’ll be expected to share..

The Sibleys often have a certain undefinable air about them.

It’s said that they have a nose for the sweet smell of success, but I think it’s more their olfactory inability to distinkwish the odour of their ardor. They have no common scents!

♪♫ "Oo-oo, that smell!

Can’t you smell that smell?

Oo-oo, that smell!

The Sibley smell surrounds you…" ♪♫

Bean, beans the magical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot!

Archibald’s medication has terrible side effects.

Good morning Balladeers!

hey! i grew up in Providence RI on Sibley Street!

Mr Sibley likes to be surprised about what’s for dinner. But what about Mrs Sibley? She should already know what they’re having.

Halitosis 101.

Whatever she’s cooking portends/

A dinner that somehow offends/

Some religious restrictions/

Transgressing some fictions/

But with no means of making amends.

Some Imam – or maybe some priest/

Will condemn the most innocent feast/

He will gladly confine/

You to H€££ if you dine/

On a swine – and you won’t be released.

an’ here I thought they were playing Darth Vader!

Those look like flippers, not masks.

Good evening, Ballard Dears!

this is sibley ridiculous…

/// Mister Sibley was moved to invent

a doohickey that acts as a vent.

Hanging over the nose,

bottom up the air flows.

Doesn’t mask; this thing focuses scent.