Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 17, 2009

Oof, the deadly solar plexus sucker punch…

EJcapulet: What country are you from? :-)

I’m American (I’m actually flattered, I thought that my vernacular made me obvious).

And she’s smiling so sweetly! I think that’s the worst sucker-punch of all.

ejcapulet says:

I’m American (I’m actually flattered, I thought that my vernacular made me obvious).

My mistake. I thought you said that you were from another country one evening.

Actually, I’m an American expatriate living in China.

“Down goes Bob. Down goes Bob”.

My wife is always taking me completely by surprise as well. Fortunately not with sucker punches.

Bob, Marcia is sending you a health message. Get back to the gym and strengthen those abs!

Any kielbasy lovers, I left a message in the wee hours of Susan’s party yesterday.

Sorry Cleo, SusanSunshine looks much better in purp…uh…violet than you do.

HI, everybody!

OMG…. I want to thank you all…. especially StelBel, of course…. but everybody else too….

for the wonderful birthday party.

I didn’t expect it at all…. so I was overwhelmed.

I went to dinner with a friend tonight… her birthday was a week ago… just a casual place…

But of course, we’re on the West Coast, so we’re three hours later than some of you and we eat late.

Upshot is, I didn’t get home till after the turn…

so if I missed your comment,and failed to thank you, or reply, during the party…. I may have just done it a few minutes ago…

oh…. and I said I’m ready for kielbasa, Dennis!

And now I’m already late for Wednesday’s strip….

the April 17th  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”

OMG…. it’s my other birthday favorite….

Thank you Nighthawks and Stel!

An embarrassment of riches!

Before I forget…. it’s on Sherpa

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

Thank you thank you.

For those who don’t know…. Cleo and I practiced for days on that walk.

Synchronization like that doesn’t just happen you know.

I’ve thought better about going to Marcia and Bob’s today.

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

Where’s the booze?

Looks like those self-defense classes Marcia’s been taking are paying off.

Susan and Cleo remind me of Morticia Addams in those dresses. Except for the color of course. And with matching eye shadow!

I bet Cleo was just thrilled to be there with you. Claude was jealous because he didn’t think he would look good in a violet dress.

yes!..those are violet dresses.

violet…..see that?…no P-word here!

It’s Susan’s Birthday! All week!

Cleo and Susan made me smile in this. Very clever!

Good grief! I got all excited about Dennis’ article about real Kielbasy from last night, that I made this comment on yesterday’s comment instead of today’s:

“With all the excitement yesterday, and that horribly long dentist appointment (anytime you go to the dentist, it’s horribly long), I never had a chance to tell StelBel what a terrific comic book cover she made for Punderwoman’s birthday! You are sooooooo talented! I noticed it’s listed as “No. 1”. Does that mean we can look forward to more editions?”

And, I still think the whole C&C gang should charter an airplane to fly back to Shenandoah to have a Polish Kielbasa Party! That place looked awesome!