Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 28, 2010

The squirrel senses that something is amiss…

Girls! Girls! Your friends have been telling you to go out and meet girls!

Looks like someone’s into some kinky stuff….

traitor!

There’s something very disturbing about today’s cartoon….

Ok, I love the squirrels in my yard to buuut….

I like em when they get near the badger hole

eew!

Tree rats.

Ballard Street is more than strange. I love it.

The 2010 commentors are not giving Arnie much slack. He is in his squirrel mind, and he cannot resist that squirrel cutie who has shown up on his front lawn! What is so strange about that?

Have Linus and Cleo agreed on a pumpkin patch to expect the Great Pumpkin?

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If Cleo sees it first, it may be the last visit, ever.

I am willing to stipulate that Arnie’s love for his new acquaintance is purely platonic. She will not be fooled by his costume, elaborate as it is. But she will be his friend as long as he brings the nuts, which he is clearly capable of doing.

Wow Cleo even has a 40 mm Bofors gun.

Oh my!

Bad Cleo! And poor Linus!

Dennis, you’re right… We HAVE to hope Cleo’s not successful…

in the October 28th 2020 _"Cleo and Company" on Sherpa.

 

Silly dog… besides being terribly bad, you’re risking life in cartoon prison….

where they still have to wear horizontal stripes… so unflattering to a basset hound.

There’s not even much percentage in it.

You think you’re going to shoot him down and get mountains of candy, enough for everybody on the planet, all to yourself, don’t you?

 

I know Linus says the Great Pumpkin brings candy to all the boys and girls in the world…

But he’s a little kid.

He doesn’t realise how much the Great Pumpkin, like Santa Claus, is helped out along the way by millions of parents, and even friends.

 

In reality, he stops in each neighborhood, where he picks up as much as he can carry…

And how much he has at any moment depends on how long it’s been since his last pit stop.

He’ll have enough for Linus, for sure…

But probably not enough more to make it worth destroying him…..

He’s the Halloween equivalent of the “goose that laid the golden egg.”

 

Besides… Linus will see you commit the crime.

He loves that pumpkin, so he’s not going to hold back, as a witness.

 

Don’t do it!

You’d be sorry when the Pumpkin doesn’t bring you any candy next year….

especially if you’re peering up at the forlorn, empty sky through the bars of your maximum security cell.

Toon prisons are notoriously old fashioned and tough…

NOT a good place for a spoiled movie star with a sweet tooth and an attitude!

I always said he looked a little squirrelly.

Boy are they going to miss out on trick or treat!

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I bet Cleo has been hired by Lucy.

Good Morning, Ballardeers! Q Date: 229.98424.09 and Frosty keeps showing up nightly.

Squirrelly describes the BS resident today. He’s gone and joined the other side in the RODENT REVOLUTION.

Cleo has gotten a WWII surplus AA gun, but while she’s looking for the Great Pumpkin flying by, he’s probably going to arrive by vine.

Y’all be safe out there. I kinda like having you around. (((((Hugs galore!)))))

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GIRTH avoids a breakdown…

Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.

I don’t see what all the commotion is about. Everyone knows you have to have mashed pumpkins to make a great pie!!! Good job, Cleo.

Not nice to make Linus mad…… he won’t share his blanket.

You’ve all got Cleo wrong. She just wants to give GP a sincere 21 gun salute!

What Cleo didn’t know is the the Great Pumpkin had 10 large bags of kibble that he was going o give to Cleo. Now she won’t get it.

Haven’t you all been paying attention? The Great Pumpkin rises out of the “most sincere pumpkin patch”. Clearly Cleo has dashed any remnants of sincerity from that patch and every one within a 20 mile radius with her latest stunt.