Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 17, 2017

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    Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    The mind boggles… ok Sterling is off his meds again? Or Sterling figures if a seashell sounds like the ocean, a slipper sounds like relaxing in his easy chair.

    Hey! I wasn’t given good material to begin with, you can’t be pithy without a good line…

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    Sterling has invented/discovered indoor earmuffs.

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    Superfrog  almost 7 years ago

    That sound is probably felt.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    Well, if Sterling’s slippers are like my slippers,

    he might be hearing the soft bleating of distant sheep….

    further muffled by the thick layer of woolly sheepskin lining the inside.

     

    Mind you, I don’t know whether you can hear sheep inside my slippers….

    it’s only a guess, based on my having heard the ocean inside a seashell,

    and seeing a similarity.

     

    But I have never, ever, myself, worn my slippers on my ears.

    Not that I would tell Rose about, anyway.

     

    BTW, I want to welcome Joefearsnothing and NRHawk to the neighborhood….

    The secret is, you already do live here….

    even though you may still live elsewhere too

    (unless you don’t _want_to… I mean, you can live here full time if you like.)

    Ballard County is huge, with no boundaries….

    Ballard Street runs through every town, and then some.

    As soon as you acknowledge, gladly or begrudgingly, your suitability, or desire for, or even resigned acceptance of, Ballard St residency….. boom…

    you’re one of us.

    There really is no age requirement, BTW…. it’s a state of mind.

    To me, a happy one!

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    Coyoty Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    It’s “soul music”, not “sole”, and that’s not how it works.

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    whiteheron  almost 7 years ago

    Sterling was trying to slip up on Heloise, but slipped up, and misused the ol’soft shoe.

    Waaittt a minute. Aren’t those Mrs. Higglepooder’s missing slippers? You may be right Rose, he may be off more than his meds.

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    Nighthawks Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    the hills are alive with sound of soft slipperrrrrrs……….

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    Ya can’t get that from a recording.

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    Perkycat  almost 7 years ago

    I keep reading this comic for new ideas. See, it never occurred to me to wear my slippers on my ears. My daughter crocheted me a pair of slippers in a pretty blue that might look real nice.

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    ChessPirate  almost 7 years ago

    Scooter: “Those better not be Hush Puppies!”

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    mggreen  almost 7 years ago

    Jerry, you’re NUTZ!

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