Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 11, 2008

Welcome, everybody…..

Please post your comments here for ….

the March 11th  2018 “CLEO and COMPANY”

Which you can read on Sherpa:

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

 

And call me silly….

but something tells me it’s Toby, and not Fred,

who wants to go home.

 

As much as dogs love a nice long walk….

sometimes a big bowl of kibble has a magnetic pull.

Especially when there might be a scrap of yesterday’s pork roast on top.

For a change, Gocomix is posting before Cleo! With DST coming tonight, I am hitting the sack. Catch you all tomorrow.

Well…. considering that it’s now an hour and a half past the turn….

and there are a few other Sherpa strips already posted for March 11th….

I don’t think this is a site delay.

 

I get the impression it’s …. well…. I hate to say it….

a Nighthawkian delay.

Perhaps an error in posting…

perhaps our collective imagination….

“an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato”.

 

And by the time some of you get here, the Sunday Cleo will no doubt be posted….

and you’ll wonder what we’re babbling about.

 

But meanwhile… pain that it is, ordinarily…..

the one good thing about posting here, instead of having our own, proper forum…..

is that we do have a new page, on which to bemoan our fate….

PLUS a charming old Ballard Street upon which to comment.

 

When main page comics don’t show up, the fans have no place to go but yesterday.

 

Now I’m waiting to see whether, as I expect, a 2 am time change means at 2am PST, it will suddenly be 3AM PDT….

Or whether, as I just read a few minutes ago, but don’t believe…. 1am PST will become 2am PDT.

Nope. It’s 1:01 PST….

That latter did not happen.

Looks like someone forgot to set the clock forward.

 

Now, now, we could speculate all day about the non appearance of Cleo and there are myriad possibilities: Nighthawks ran out of gas. He had a flat tire. He didn’t have enough money for cab fare. His tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole his car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts!

However, rather than relying on show business to solve my problems, I prefer science:

According to Occam’s razor, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one:

Nighthawks is drunk.

It is now 9 a.m. Mountain time, and there is still no new C & C. I am getting a little worried! This is not like our Nighthawks to be more than a short time late.

It’s after 8AM Pacific Time. Whatever Nighthawks is up to, let’s hope he’s having a great time at it.

I see today’s Cleo just fine — does that make me first poster?

It’s a question of religion, Claude. You should be praying to the goddess Anoia…

http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Anoia

Nighthawks tried and succeeded. Claude tried………….and failed. Such is life.

Now that’s determination.

C’mon, Claude. You can tell by the rattle that the drawer isn’t wedged tightly. Some utensil is sticking up and blocking it from opening. Just slip a knife blade in above the top of the drawer and knock the offending item back down enough so you can get the drawer open, then rearrange whatever’s in the drawer so it doesn’t happen again. That’s probably what Clara will do when you walk away in a funk.

if you can’t fix it by jumping up and down on it, it can’t be fixed

This happened to me years ago, I was in my late twenties. I’d stuffed my desk drawer so full I could not open it (not sure how I got it closed in the first place).

Mother to the rescue! She got the drawer open, was quite annoyed at me and then told me never to stuff a drawer full again … which I haven’t. Lesson learnt.

I will be the ugly male who points out that technically, Claude answered the question that was posed to him. “Can you help me with this?” He then ascertained that the correct answer to that question was “No.” And replied thus. In the male worldview, Clara has no reason to be displeased, because Claude responded appropriately to what she asked. Had she asked him “to please open this stuck drawer”, and he reacted in the same way, she would have every reason to be perturbed. We are eminently practical, ladies.