Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for December 09, 2009

And he won’t be making his next call for a while…

Really? How could anyone tell?

It’s ok. He was only talking to a machine.

must have been customer support for his high speed internet

So true ” iamtxmilady”

How many MANY times I’ve wanted to do that!!!

Hello, my name is Rajnashumpur….errr Bob, may I help you?

Oh that poor phone! What did it have to do with the unsatisfactory call?!? I think there is a lesson here, but I don’t know what it is.

Now you can empathize with Elvis when he shot his TV set in Vegas…

It must have been a hair-raising experience for Neal.

Neal’s practicing for the “whack-a-mole” contest down at Chuckie- Cheese..

One too many Robo-calls.

Don’t miss Cleo’s Christmas performance:

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

Your call is very important to us, please stay on the line.

It was the Nigerian Prince again, wasn’t it Neal?

Over on C & C, that’s actually a relief. I was afraid it was the right one.

Hello all….

I’m a bit late… and I see we have eleven comments from 10 years ago…. and still only five from today. Wow.

Anyway… yes!

A brand new strip, for the the Dec 9th  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”</strong

For which Dennis already posted the link to Sherpa.

Uh oh.

Maybe Cleo’s gonna have to come up with a little gangsta rap?

Not sure how that fits in with the magic of Christmas, and all…

but… um… her dress and hat are certainly magical.

Are they perhaps made of XTI color-changing fabric, from Dennis’ shop?

Cos that’s only sold at a few fine stores… and they’re all on Ballard Street.

Or is it part of a 9 Differences puzzle, already in the making?

(Sorry, Nighthawks… I just had to ask…)

Anyway, I’m sure it’s an easy mistake, at the Clifford residence.

Cleo probably has at least 4 or 5 instrument cases containing weaponry, and only one with a violin inside.

Good thing she didn’t bring the cello case.

(You don’t want to know.)

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20191209

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/cscwy/2019/cscwy191209.jpg

To call that joke vintage would be an understatement.

But her blush matches Cleo’s dress perfectly.

Be sure to rate it that way in the survey.

Bring on the boos and cat calls.

Cleo didn’t bring the wrong violin case. She was making a point that the entire Sherpa site had better be fixed, like promised two years ago, and not just the fix-it date that might be changed again in three weeks.

ah yes. goComics promised to fix it this year…..with three weeks to go in 2019, they’re going to get it in just under the wire.

or not

That’s what you get when you go after the evil cat just before the concert.

I think only Cleo could make this mistake…….we all know Cleo.

Good afternoon Balladeers and Miss Susan!

as a fellow ‘balladeer’ (if I may be so bold as to assume my membership is still in good standing) I feel compelled to

croon the only ballad I know—namely The Ballad of Davy Crockett, which was hammered into my

adolescent brain by television , radio, movies and even juke boxes in the late 1950’s in midwest Americana.

Luckily for myself and those around me, I will successfully resist that urge to belt out that little ditty, safe in the knowledge

that virtually anyone of my age and environment , and still able to be coherent, knows the words and tune of that as well as I do.

I love the “thunderous applause”!

And Cleo had the smarts to blush! Good Girl!

Given that 4 out of 5 of Cleo’s instrument cases do not contain musical instruments, I think the odds of her choosing one of those is high. However, I refuse to believe she would be embarrassed about it.