Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 29, 2009

He fits right in with the program.

At least he’s optimistic.

If his eyes get any closer to that cup, he’ll go from optomistically to misty optically.

Sorry, folks. Here’s the link:

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

Commenters ten years ago covered the bases for further sources of humor. Well done, y’all.

Now, Clara, honestly, you knew he was like this when you married him and you did so anyway. You can’t expect him to behave any better, or at least differently, after XX years of marriage.

Neal, I hope you are right! If you don’t bust out a positive thought, I fearyou will spring a leak and lose all that energy!

Nobody cares about the tree! If the elephant has tuskaloosa, what about the tree’s trunk? Truncated? Trunckotomized? Donald Trunk?

And is Cleo actually sporting a smirk in panel 4? Can it be that she enjoys Claude’s little jokes?

That was awful. Clara’s going to pop him one of these days and give him a toothaloosa.

I just caught up with yesterday’s puzzle & got all 9, wowweee!!! Yesterday was taken up with a new TV media box, all working perfect, now this morning no TV at all anywhere in the house GRRRRR, looks like I am going to be very busy on the computer all day with no TV to watch:(

Clara wishes she had a large glass of water to cool him off.

Hmmm…. was the zoo in Birmingham, or maybe Montgomery…. and now the elephant’s Tuscaloosa?

The pun has loose roots, like those tusks… and that poor tree.

Somehow, down the twisted path my brain seems to follow, I just thought of the song I used to sing when I was a wee lass…

couldn’t carry a tune then, either…. but I later figured out that wasn’t the only reason people laughed…

when I warbled “going to Alabama with a BandAid on my knee…”

Couple replies for yesterday…

Montana Lady…. Nighthawks may have been accused (and consider the source) of supplying ersatz coffee to Claude in a puzzle strip…

but rest assured, that has nothing to do with the Tiki, or our special blend of genuine high mountain Turdmunkestani beans… grown and directly imported by monkeys.

That does make you feel better… right?

BTW it goes great with chocolate chip cookies…. hint hint….

And PerkyC…

The Bliss strip was just a map showing where sales of purple … or purplie… eyeshadow are most concentrated… therefore presumably, it’ is most worn.

Like Florida, LA, and Las Vegas.

So in MY version, I added Cleveland… I think Mr. Bliss hadn’t factored in Cleo and Company Productions.

Negative waves would be more appropriate. Woof, woof!

She didn’t walk into that, she ran! (Booooo!)

Oh my gosh! There’s something wrong with panel #3…….Susan and I aren’t hiding behind the couch!

Did everyone start counting the differences between panels one and four?