Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for February 14, 2013

It’s Dale that doing all the hard work, and he just feels like, he’s just spinning his wheels and going around in circles !

Just popped in for a bit. Happy VD everybody.

At least the hamster is happy! ♥

Hullooooo……Anybody still up?

I’m back on Ballard Street, after a long day…..I know I’m late….but at least, I brought you all a card…..

Guess I’ll wander down to the Tiki….I have to go apologise to Fenton, anyway….

Linguist, of _course_he’s a boxer…..it was just a slip of the fingers…

But he didn’t know that…and it has been relayed to me that on top of his other woes, he didn’t appreciate being called what he described (to my unnamed source) as “a two foot tall musclebound drooler.”

Oh yes, please, Red….I’d love one, thanks.

Scotch, if that’s OK….

I’m feeling a bit like that hamster.

How are you this evening?

Oh…. gotta answer a message from yesterday….

Monkey!

Oh, thanks Red….

And yeah, I always liked having something to do at work….time goes much more slowly if nothing happens.I do have to say, though…I don’t get bored.I’m very easily entertained…. even if it’s just in my head.

Excuse me, but Fenton…pretty please…. could you rustle up a Yak rib plate for me?

Oh, wait… I’ll just go get it myself…

Red, are you hungry?

Oh…. now I’ll have to look at that.

Wonder whether it’s online.

Yeah, the Monkey said “High SuSun..Buy SuSun..!!!”

Good thing I understand him so well or I might take it that he thought I was for sale!

And I understand, Red…. I’m tired too.

Just drove home tonight in my car from where I was staying….and then drove all the way to Ballard Street in Elvis.

Omgosh, Red…I do think that’s the Monkey’s uncle!

Oh, G’night Red…Happy Valentine’s Day to you too!

Hope you see the picture before you go…. but if not you’ll see it when you get up.

Crossed messages…. LOL

G’bnighd! (Munching yak ribs…. sorry…)

Maybe Chip will write a book like that…only about modern life….

He could ask our Monkey to be on the cover of his book with him….and if the Monkey won’t do it…there’s always Dale, there.Bev is right…. Dale does have a great smile.

Only thing is, Chip’s idea of “modern” goes to about 1988.He still thinks cordless phones are a marvel…. and wishes he could get a 2-way wrist radio like Dick Tracy.

His wife was modern, though.She even had a computer, and used to e-mail the grandkids, after they showed her how.

He’s still got it in the back bedroom… and maybe one day he’ll fire it up and try it…‘Course, he’d probably have to start paying $10 a month for CompuServe like she did.

Happy valentine’s Day to Ballard St. residents!

Good morning, I.M.!! Happy Valentine’s Day!

Chip’s hamster, Dale, takes time out from his exercise wheel to get married to Bitsy on Valentine’s Day……how very romantic!!

“If that were a real corralary the exercise device would be used as a place to hang the hampsters cloths!”++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++As a matter of fact, after Dale quit for the day. the wheel quickly reverted to the improvised clothes rack that it usually is, since Dale had to search frantically for his wedding outfit and get to the church on time!

Meanwhile, Chip, who was so fascinated “studying various corollaries to modern living”………………………..fell asleep.

The little guy will be fine as long as one ont cross beams gone owt askew ont treadle doesn’t happen.

Nothing but water for me now, Fenton! I’ll be back for an ice-cold shot of Stoli with my caviar plate later. Got to keep fasting until my tests at 9AM.

Happy Valentines day one and all. Hug whoever ya want ta. Just beware violence sometimes happens when folks are startled.I hear a song. Its a wonderful song. It is flashing in his head over and over and over. READY“The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. They wheels on the bus go round and round early in the morning.”Now this song will bug you ALL day.

Posted as Requested For Fenton To all of his Tiki Regulars and the Irregulars too

there is a monestary high upon the big hill overlooking our village. one of the monks there is named Chip. and yes…….We call him Chip Monk…..

I got back from all the ultrasounds and EKG around 10:30 (took along a little snack to eat there before returning) and cut up some more fruit (for a 2nd breakfast). Now that I’m feeling “normal”, I’ll wish everyone a

And for those who don’t like it so HOT, I picked this one.I think he’s cute (and fits Chip’s topic). Happy Valentine’s to all!

Veteran…. I didn’t know that! Thanks.

I’d never seen the Trunk Monkey….Since TV went digital, I only pick up one station with my antenna and a converter box, and it’s local PBS…no ads.

So I spent about 15 minutes watching some on YouTube.Funny.

Some are a bit violent for my taste… but funny.I didn’t see the stolen car one, though…. I’ll have to look some more.

I just wanted people to know it was our Monkey, so I enlarged his avatar…. Or at least, it was his avatar yesterday, when he was calling himself On Dooty MonkeyBlues…

Of course, unlike me, he changes his…. by the time he sees the book cover maybe he’ll be using something else…like his badge, or calling himself Sheriff MonkeyBlues again….but at least he’ll probably know I meant it to be him.

BTW…. The reason I was watching ads instead of commenting is that I was locked out of here.

Who thinks to carry a key?!

I logged in to GoComics when I booted the computer… maybe 1pm Pacific Time… opened Ballard St and a couple of others, read the comments…

Then everything I tried to do returned that page that says they’re “updating” …Anybody else get that?

They want to know whether I’d like to do a puzzle instead.Right.

Anyway…. it came back.Obviously.The decor looks the same.

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round………….STOP IT STOP STOP IT.SusanSunshineThe Trunk monkey was commercial ran for years out of a car dealership up north. He had all kinds of antics for that monkey. The one you have with the shotgun is one concerning your daughter and a chaperone (the Trunk monkey) The boy gets already to kiss her and you hear this KLICK KLAK and there is that monkey smiling. The scene goes to commercial and you hear the door slam and a gun shot. My favorite was the Anti Theft one. A car thief gets in. The monkey goes on alert. He comes out with a blackjack and smacks the car thief on the noggin. The next you see a body falling to the river and monkey standing on the bridge looking over and wiping his hands. Another one is with a cop. The guy driving points to the monkey in the back seat. First its money, then its donuts. Goes to title and you hear handcuffs clicking.

Thanks Veteran!Actually, I did see the one with the teen age girl and our Sheriff’s avatar, plus a few others, this afternoon when I was watching them on YouTube…Haven’t yet seen the other two you just mentioned.

There must be a TON of them. I saw one with the monkey getting arrested, for trying to bribe a state trooper not to give a woman a ticket….. I THINK…. cos I couldn’t tell what he was holding up… And one where he hits a guy with a tire iron after a traffic altercation…. (that was too violent) and one where he texts for a guy who’s driving, but puts in his own message.

Speaking of the Monkey’s avatar (above) I’ve wondered why you’re penguins.

Stel….actually the book isn’t finished.Chip just started to write it, after he read my suggestion….though he didn’t get that I was joking, cos he’s so hopelessly out of date.I think he’s gonna try to do it on that old 386, though, and put it on floppy disks….so we’re pretty safe.I DID make the mock-up of the cover, though…thanks….He asked m to do it.No author on it cos he’s trying to decide whether he needs a pen name.He thinks “Chip” doesn’t have enough gravitas.

Wow….

My last comment (about 3 hours ago, by the time on the other two) has disappeared!

It wasn’t anything racy, or in any way flag-worthy (or should that be UN-worthy?)

I merely commented to Stel about how hard it must have been for Dale to hang all those little clothes on his exercise wheel….

I’ve noticed that if you want to use your exercise equipment as a clothes rack you should get a stationary bike instead cos it has more handles.

I’m also wondering whether Dale’s new bride would be shocked…. then again, as Bitsey is wearing nothing but a corset and veil in her wedding pictures,I doubt she’s the type to be easily shocked by any thing.

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Since I don’t have a Valentine, it is nice to have friends here to wish me Happy Valentine’s Day.

Have a sweet heart of a night friends. Good Night my Funny Valentines and Balladeers.

Thanks all, but nothing will interfere with my (very pleasant)sleep tonight. That baseball # I had never heard and the others I have sung so many times that they no longer annoy me (like my sons’ “Greasy grimy gopher guts”http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=U.4584741054251403&pid=15.1

As I told him, I’ll be having a sweet dream of love. Good night all!

Hi Shika …. did you go?

I never manage to catch you….. but yeah, I like my neighbors here too…Well, Charles, from yesterday, isn’t especially friendly… but most of the “people” who live on Ballard Street are kind, helpful and very tolerant.

Look at all the older couples…. men in square pants and ladies in polka dot dresses…who smile indulgently when their spouses shoot cannons, roll by on wheels, fly in home-made contraptions and wear propellers on various parts of their anatomy.

I put “people” in quotes cos so many are toons or animals… but they get equal job opportunities, equal treatment, and equal respect in Ballard County.

In fact the toons were our first settlers….without whom Ballard Street would be a far different place.

Hmm…Maybe we should have a Toon Appreciation Day sometime in the summer….to honor the original inhabitants of Ballard County.

I’ve gone along on some historical digs…But the excavation allowed on this site isn’t really deep enough to reach the earliest days…

Still, there is a historical record being kept somewhere in the county…in fact, the eminent Ballardarian anthropologist Jerry Van Amerongen probably has a complete archive of artifacts and data.

But even if we never find it, or even the names of the first, brave settlers to set foot on Ballard soil..we can still celebrate the contributions of our present day toon neighbors, and ALL the generations that came before them.

Happy Valentines Day!

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Good morning Balladeers and Tigressy!