Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for May 10, 2009

He needs to hang out with Scooter.

Scooter does know his way around knots.

Shoe-chewing has become a “hit and run” art.

After hobbling his victim, Trapper can make a relaxed getaway.

A fly in every burger. That’s quality control. A touch of smoke as well, mmm.

I encountered this joke almost 50 years ago, but the illustration makes it all new again.

Wow! I never thought of this way of forming burgers. It looks like it’s really fast and effective, but I’ll probably have to practice until I get good at it.

And I’m thinking “when is this guy going to throw one to Cleo?” She would clearly appreciate one, as she watches every movement of the “meat”. And who could resist Cleo with her big, sad basset eyes?

I think Trapper may be working on commission for Ballardian Cobblers and network server hosting.

White Castle uses child labor to make their tiny burgers. And Wendy’s has a robot with flat arms to make their square burgers.

He’s a shoe-in for the doghouse.

Yum! Just the right amount of armpit juice.

Hi, everybody!

You’re here, I guess, to post your comments on

the May 10th  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”

Which you can go ahead and read on Sherpa

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

if you must….

Not me.

I looked, briefly…. and I’m sitting this one out.

Nice weather we’re having, isn’t it?

Doo de dooo….

Oh, OK, I will make one comment:

I don’t know whether it’s more disgusting to think he’s wearing deodorant or he isn’t.

YUCK!

And Farside, while I’m at it…. you can keep ’em.

The Tiki observes very strict standards….

I’ve got enough work, considering that it’s owned by a monkey, convincing him that the green dumpster out back isn’t surplus food storage….

don’t give him any ideas.

Anyway… people love to make cartoons putting down burgers and burger places….

But I read our local health department’s restaurant sanitation ratings… they post them online.

It’s never a Jack in the Box that gets shut down.

It’s mostly salad bars, little sandwich shops, and in-store delis.

Two places that I know of got shut down so consistently by the health department that they eventually closed…. (citing altogether different reasons, which I don’t believe.)

One was a Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet, where you could see violations and bad practices, even if you didn’t know much about it.

Before you say “Of course” … there’s another one in town that always gets great ratings.

The other was a big salad bar chain, that advertised all their “healthy” and vegetarian offerings….

but both of its locations here were cited over and over for problems with refrigeration, sanitation and rodents.

None of that, of course, would bother a basset hound.

RAW MEAT spelled backwards is TEAM WAR

(so I took a little poetic license – is that such a crime?)

Aaaaaand ew

HaY… maH Bergur$ ar Jus Fine teh Way they IS…!!! ($2.36 NormaL, $3.62 fur teh YAK an Cheez) TIKI dont skrimp on teh meats…

I’ll bet we’d never see Cleo steal shoes like Trapper does. It’s not that she is so innocent. It’s because she can’t run fast enough!

As for our BurgerMeister…………..all I can say is:

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

Can’t believe this is a Cleveland restaurant — more like Pittsburgh…

He was known in the business as “Le Pitomane…”

Good afternoon Balladeers and Miss Susan!