Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 19, 2014

Marcus is a rank amateur.

He’s not exactly Icarus, is he?

Hey, I don’t blame Marcus for being afraid.

Other people grab all sorts of glory for jumping farther…. Martin Frumbly jumped 12 feet off the roof, Baxter Smoelsky parachuted three THOUSAND feet out of a small plane….

But that first 10 out of 12, or 2,998 out of 3,000 feet is perfectly safe!

If anybody’s gonna get hurt,the way Baxter broke his ankle on his jump … it’s always gonna happen in that last two feet!

In fact, it’s the last six inches that’s the most dangerous part of any jump…And here is Marcus, staring that danger zone right in the eye…if it has an eye….

C’mon, Marcus, no one will blame you, not even Dorothy, if you come on down to the Tiki for a bit of a strengthener, before you make your grand attempt.

I think he’s trying to remember the plank’s constant.

Right, Superfrog!Expressed in board feet.

I sense a major fail in the making.

she always has his back

Good morning Doh

The wings that 2old posted are the prettiest; none of them will fly – SOOO

I don’t blame Marcus Timus. The wind isn’t in the right direction…

Marcus is losing some feathers so he probably should rethink this. Wing construction is very important to flight. Funny comments today as usual.

FLY! Fly you fool! Fly! Fly!!!!……….

Marcus needs a feather in his cap.

Marcus Well-I’ll-Be, MD. (Mildly Damned)

Marcus is molting. Sylvia is not impressed by his mating display.

Good Evening Fellow Ballard Street neighbours.

I flew in with Prince Mua in Kitty Bang Bang, but we landed well out of Marcus’s sight, because the backfire startled him. I felt sorry for him when his feather’s shook off…

See you later at the Tiki!

Marcus just needs a wing man…

Hi X!

Hey, we’ve got that…

This is what we have on tap….a few more in bottles…

I can’t imagine you want the last bottle of their coconut porter.

Hi Susan, any chance of getting some of those hot & spicy Yak wings?

Sure, X….

I think we’ve got some yak wings …not a lot of winged yak about.

Actually, they’re pretty rare…

Do you think you might settle for Buffalo wings?

Apparently there are a LOT more of those…

You see how small their wings are…that’s why you get a whole plateful.

There’s a lot of beer flowing at the Tiki. I think I will have a Wing Walker. I feel daring, unlike what’s his name molting on the front stoop.

SUSAN, could I have a barbequed Yak drumstick please?

Hi STEL!

I’ll have a rainbow ice cream cone with an A and W Rootbeer Jilly Jelly on top, please, little monkeys.Ohh, you do that so professionally, as always, of course. I just love to see you all work together like that.

Thank you for bringing it to me, Batpug. Such a gentlepug you are.

Are you coming back BEV? Anyone?

If I had any icecream in the house, I’d have some. Headed out now to Baronial Court (voting on a new practice location). I’ll check in later if anyone’s still here.

I’m done early with my comics for once. I don’t know what to do with myself.

I wondered why Frazz and Caulfield were eating ice cream today.

Obviously not from the Tiki…..Caulfield is waaay over the limit.

A scoop of chocolate fudge and one of coffee chocolate swirl, on a sugar cone, please, monks.I need energy to go do laundry.

Later!

Oh…. and Brian…. my goodness don’t say things like that around here…. you’re wide open to suggestions! LOL

Hi BRI, SUSAN and BEV. Sorry I missed you.I just watched a fascinating movie called “Salt of the Earth”, about a 15 month strike in a New Mexico Zinc mine. The film was banned in the McCarthy era, but it is excellent. The ‘non-professional’ actors were excellent. I could have sworn one of them was Humphrey Bogart, but he was a Mexican Union member.

BEV, I enjoyed my ice cream cone. I don’t think I would enjoy the one on Frazz. I would be swimming in cream before I could eat it all.

BRI, did you find something to do? Doesn’t it annoy you when you arrive and no one is here? Shouldn’t everyone arrive at the same time? Like on Cheers- heck that place is always full of regulars, lol

I see everyone is gone- ’nite all!

I think the ice cream du jour will be strawberry. Because that’s what I have on hand.

Marcus spells and sounds a bit like “Icarus.”