Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 25, 2009

When pockets become unstable…

too much money

he’s been taking the advice of Larry Niven in the roentgen standard.

http://www.larryniven.org/stories/roentgen.shtml

When I was a kid we were always warned about carrying blasting caps in our pockets.

Harold’s polka dot undies are revealed!

Bazooka bowling! Sounds like fun, but how do you address a 7-10 split?

Knocking bowling pins off of a table with a pistol is a fun challenge. I think a bazooka, while fun for the Kaboom with pins flying everywhere, might not be all that challenging as a sport. Hard on the back walls of bowling alleys, too.

Hello, fellow Cleo posters!

This is the spot! We’re talking about

the March 25th  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”

After reading it, of course on Sherpa

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

I hope Cleo’s been saving her allowance…

I’m sure there’s a small… or large… fee, for every pin she blows up.

To say nothing of the repair costs to the pin-setting machines if they choke on piles of shredded wood and splinters.

Aaaand the huge therapy bills for the owner of the bowling alley…

reduced to quivering jelly by seeing his beautiful dream destroyed in minutes by one small… or at least short…. four-legged terror.

But Claude is on it….

He’s outraged…. he’s angry…. and he unleashes his most powerful invective in an effort to stop this 60 pound, waddling menace….

(Cover the children’s ears, please. I’m sorry the rest of you have to hear it.)

“Confound it, Cleo!”

Have you ever heard stronger words?

Surely that will stop her in her tracks!

Hahahaha. Yeah right.

Meanwhile…. Harold…. you should know to stay away from those innocent looking flea market dealers….

the ones who sell flimsy plastic wallets with fake Disney princesses on them, shoddy tape measures, and $5 6-packs of men’s socks…

while whispering about secret deals on illicit Chinese fireworks.

Your granddaughter knows what Snow White should look like, the tape measures break almost instantly, the socks unravel…

and you can’t even get home with the firecrackers.

You can dress him up, but you just can’t take him anywhere.

There goes the back end of the bowling alley.

Cleo has the bowling ball inside the bazooka. She is also pretending that the bowling pins at the ones who will not re-launch sherpa in 2019, but will instead re-launch it in 2020 and then 2021 and so on.

At the risk of sounding like a prig, I believe Cleo is beyond the foul line. The resulting shot should not count toward her total score.

As long as the alley has 10 or more lanes, Cleo can complete 1 game.

Ah. Bowling is supposed to be fun!