Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 07, 2008

Classic Ballard Street right there.

Different from anything I’ve seen Jerry create. I love it.

Well hi, Habanerobuck (may I call you “Hab?”) and Paula!

Fancy meeting you here …

I stopped by to invite people…. and you’re welcome to join us, if you can time-travel…

in posting our comments on

the July 7th  2018 “CLEO and COMPANY”

 

Which we all read on Sherpa

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

 

I think we’ll walk on a bit farther, though, and leave Chuck to his reverie.

I wonder whether the graves remind him that life is short, so he needs to make his changes now…

or if he worries about not being ready to face the afterlife, without improving his behavior, or his karma, or whatever he believes in.

 

In any case…. I believe in a cheerier place to post on Cleo than sitting in a graveyard….. or even standing outside the fence…

So let’s go to the Tiki….

There’s a shortcut right there… not everybody knows Cherry Street goes through to Oak….

and we can walk through Oak Street Park and come out on Ballard Street right near the Tiki.

 

Would you like to come, Chuck?

Paula? Hab?

Find the nine differences? I can’t even get the words “Find the nine differences” in focus. Am I having another stroke? Let me go back to BS and see if that’s in focus. Yes it is. That’s a relief. And here we are.

JvA’s comic above reminds me of an old Far Side. An old man walks past a cemetery. At work inside are two gravediggers. They wave & smile at the old man. He frowns & gives them the bird.

Hello Habanerobuck and Paula! I totally agree!

It is best to keep whistling as you pass by a graveyard, they say.

Eight will have to do until morning coffee.

Well…. sorry if it’s been difficult tonight….

but I hope this helps.

Today’s side-by-side:

https://s10.postimg.cc/tsmphx07t/Cleo_nine_differences_Jan_12th_18.png

Is that in focus, Liverlips?

So I guess it’s time to post the solution to Saturday’s Cleo & Co. puzzle. But ignore the top border bar. It’s not the bar you are looking for. The bar you want on this warm Saturday is the Tiki so stop on by for a cold one.

 

https://s5.postimg.cc/v5la0v8pj/Cleo20180707.gif

 

Oh, and BTW no peeking, we’re watching.

8!!! I am quite happy with that!!! Happy Saturday!

I suppose we all consider it from time to time!

OMG PEEPS! You have to check this out.

https://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2018/07/07

I know.

It looks nothing like Cleo.

ᴘʀᴇsᴇɴᴛs

WHO LET THE CAT IN?

SATURDAY NON SOLUTION SOLUTION

 

   1.  Top panel: Cat is giving Claude the stink eye. Bottom panel: Cat is not giving Claude the stink eye – Cat is giving everyone the stink eye and Claude just happens to be in its field of vision.

 

   2.  Top: Cat, who closely resembles The Old Scalawag’s cat (“The Little Shit” (or, as The Old Scalawag calls him, “The Cat Who Named Himself”)), thinks he is all that. Bottom: The Cat just corrected me: the cat ᴋɴᴏᴡs he is all that.

 

   3.  Top: Cat is thinking, “Die, Claude, die!”. Bottom: Cat is thinking, “FEED ME! (then Die, Claude, die!)”.

 

   4.  Top: Cat is thinking, “One step closer and I’ll unleash holy terror on you the likes of which would make medieval torture chambers look like Sunday picnics.” Bottom: Cat is thinking, “But first I’ll take a nap.”

 

   5.  Top: Cat: “I own you.” Bottom: Cat: “You think I don’t own you? Before the sun sets you will fill up my food dish, top off my water bowl, scratch me behind my ears upon demand, watch me walk across your keyboard (while you are typing), and clean up my crap.” P.S. “I own you.”

 

   6-9.  Highly technical. Only Perkycat, MontanaLady, StelBel, and SusanSunshine, (we interrupt this solution to bring you this message from the cat: “Die! Die! Die! Die!”) would understand.

Or a deader person. Ground Chuck.

Soooooooo, I got 8, too. Is that the new 9? I can’t believe the one I missed was an easy one! Here I was counting the tiles, measuring the shower curtain, and all along, it was staring at me in the face! Nighthawks, you’re diabolical !!!!!!!!! (but fun.)

I got all nine – first time in a long time. The cat and Claude are having a stand-off and Cleo is enjoying every bit of it.

I got all nine too! Probably didn’t hurt that I remembered a few from last time…