Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 03, 2008

Don’t worry Alice, by the time you call him, he will still be trying to get in position. These Pully Club guys sure enjoy life!

Susan seems to be tied up at the Tiki, maybe a few Banana Daqs over the line. So just in case she is late, here is the link she usually posts:

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

Claude, you woke up Cleo for that? GROAN.

You just had to ask.

Sit on it!

Hi everybody…. and thanks, Dennis…

Yes, I’m late again… sorry.

For those who don’t know… the link Dennis posted for me is to today’s Cleo and Company, on Sherpa….

which is what we’ve all come here to discuss.

The Cliffords are in Cleveland… was that at a local zoo, Claude?

Cos it sounds like a story about an elephant in Alabama.

Just for the record…. I never overdo the banana daks, especially not while I’m working… not that I’m so terribly virtuous…

But for one thing, I’d like to keep my job…

and for another…. well, gosh…. bananas, sugar, lime juice and rum… with a splash of coconut milk….

it’s NOT the kind of thing you really want to overdo.

Speaking of my job(s)…..

I’ve been a little under the weather… but I’m OK… just falling down on my duties here on Cleo, and a bit at the Tiki, too….

And I just discovered that Sheriff MonkeyBlues stopped by here the other day, when those cats were attacking Roscoe with a bat.

I usually check his profile every day, but somehow I missed it….

I’d said that the Monkey didn’t trust cats, and he replied… invisibly, of course….

“Ah bin Warnin Ya’LL fur a LONG tYme…. Catz… Sheeesh… o.0”

and

“CaTz…. ah DownT TrustuM… jus sayin’… that iz, I’fn enny Buddy kiN Here Me… o.0”

I’m sorry, Monkey!

I’ll try to keep up!

Maybe it’s time to write another message to GoComics, too.

And as for Ted…. his pulleys are bolted to the floor, so I think he’s at home.

And Alice, spoon in hand, will serve no dinner (or diner) before she’s ready.

She runs a tight ship, does Alice.

Every time I see today’s Cleo I get an earworm………..from The Trouble with Harry. John Forsythe sings (?) “Flagging the Train to Tuscaloosa”. And it just pops into my consciousness when Claude talks about the accident at the zoo. He didn’t say how the tree was, though.

This strip always reminds me of a favorite yucker from my youth. Whenever we drove through the town of Kalama, Wash. I’d ask myself “I wonder if they have a zoo…”

(We never stopped to find out.)

yeah, I know—bad pun and a rerun to boot….and believe me, I’d love to boot those reruns,

but I’ll post something new on Monday’s,starting next week.

Sounds painful!!!

You had to know there was a brutal pun coming from the instant Claude opened his mouth. Is Stephan Pastis related to you, NH?