Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 18, 2007

My goodness….

I hope Elliot himself isn’t going to get any more expansive,

or those pants will be a goner.

(Would that be “a pair of goners?” )

Nicely tailored slacks in a 57 extra short are hard to find….

you can see that even this pair is a bit low in the rise.

But I digress…

I’m actually visiting Elliot’s office from the past….

Well, yesterday, anyway.

7pm-ish Pacific time….the Sunday Cleo won’t be out till after 10.

I keep crazy hours…. a West Coast insomniac, I post here so late sometimes that a few of you East Coasters are already getting out of bed….

then I sleep till your late afternoon, so I never get a chance to reply to whatever you said.

If I do it now on Saturday’s strip, you probably won’t see it… so I came to the future to catch up with you….

Perkycat…. I was only joking about thanking me….

You’re very welcome…

but it’s a very quick process.

The hardest part is realising on Friday night that it’s Saturday on the comics, and it’s time to do it.

Montana Lady…. you said your computer was broken, and then you were way from one….

but …um…. I saw all your posts. Magic?

Anyway…. safe travels!

Oh… and I now I can say “Good morning, Muddy!” cos I usually don’t get back soon enough after you say it to me.

Wow… six hours later, and nobody has stopped by?

I know it’s Saturday night, and a lot of you are at the Tiki…

and I heard there’s a pretty good party over at Reggie and Rhonda’s up on Hill St….

(if you don’t mind wearing a cat mask and bringing another tuna salad)

but really…. c’mon…. we need you here, too!

Meanwhile….

Clyde!!

You’re blowing it!

Don’t you know it’s Father’s Day?

Right now, Clara is in the bedroom getting dressed up to take you out to dinner…

She knows she’s going to have to wait for you to get dressed, too, when she tells you….

But she doesn’t know she’d have to spend two hours cleaning up your mess first!

Better hope you can persuade her to leave it till afterward….

otherwise you may be enjoying a bowl of bran flakes and milk for your Father’s Day surprise.

A month ago was Mother’s Day….

You could have made dinner then.

But wait… what am I saying?

No, I’m glad you didn’t!

Also… in spite of what I said above…

I answered you, Stel, and posted to nighthawks, too, at the end of yesterday…

cos it was about the puzzle.

And I was reading through some Cleo forums from a week or two ago,

trying to remember something that was posted,

and I found a night I’d completely missed!

I don’t remember why….

but I do know Rotifer is now responsible for my very strange earworm…

It’s all your fault, Mr. Scalawag…

I mean, no one would have listened if you’d yelled “CHOCOLATE!”

well, all I can say about the misspelling of ‘differences’ in yesterday’s puzzle is that that isin the top panel and the directions were to find the two differences in these two panels(NOT in the panel saying this)

that’s my story and I’m sticking to it

@Susan – It’s usually my fault, even when it’s not.

Right! How hard can it be? Just like everything you don’t do – always looks easier than it is.

I see Claude bought the same model smoke detector I did.

I will comment again, I wonder why sometimes comments disappear??? Take Clara out for a romantic dinner Claude, it’s much safer!!!