Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 22, 2017

Perry is determined that he’s going to win at least one race!

Perry’s rigged this one for sure, even though it’s technically an open case.

As they say, the case has no legs.

Shouldn’t he at least let the attaché case blow the whistle?

Oh fer cryin’ out loud. “Hey Vern! Perry got out again!”

I swear, we lock the doors and lock the doors and he finds a way to get out. The Ballard Sanitarium and Recreational Pot Shop was not designed for sneaky people like Perry.

Most of our patients …..er guests stay put. “Vern!”.

Perry likes running in single file.

I don’t think this case will make it off the line, unless one of the Ballard lunatic dogs shows up to run with it. I can see it!

A brief race with a briefcase.

A sort dash for all the cash….

against a brief case with a dog face.

Perry will win it one hand down!

Is anybody else having trouble with shape-shifting comment boxes tonight?

Sometimes while I’m typing, I can see my whole comment

and sometimes only one line, like reading along thorough the mail slot.

But it’s all there when I post it….

Complete with typos I couldn’t see, so I need a do-over.

Big thanks to a couple of you from yesterday… you know why (blush…)

And OMG, me in a band is a hysterical idea.

People RUN when I sing!

If, in his role as race official, Perry defaults the attache case for leaving early, I might suspect the fix was in.

I was going to say that at times this strip is TOO weird…but then I saw all the comments it engendered and figured it certainly “talks” to a lot of people. Guess I’m the odd man out.

Sherbert….

Nah… we’re the odd people in.

You’re welcome to join us.

Liverlips….

I accidentally discovered that after I start typing, if I click outside the box, and then in again, the space enlarges.

Usually, not always.

Makes no sense at all.

Also notice that our names after we post the comment is of a different font than normal. Well, what is normally normal.

I once beat mine off the bus. I was the loser that day.

That case is a dog that won’t run.

Five bucks on the case…

On the naughty comment box; before here on Ballard street, when I clicked the “COMMENT” link, it expanded the box, but didn’t post the comment. Luckily I discovered it. So I went merrily on, clicking the blue box to expand the box and eventually, that darn GoComics posted my incomplete comment! Grrrr…

Perry’s Complaint

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*" Now my car rattles like an old tin can,

And my wife ran off with an other man.

And I sprained a muscle in my fishin’ hand

And my income tax is due.

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I’ve got every aiment known to man,

From African Mumps to dishpan hands

And I lost every race that I ever ran

‘Cause I never even got a start !

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I lost all my money in a poker game,

I think that my left leg is going lame,

And my brother asked me of I’d change my name

An’ that’s what I think I’ll do…

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No some folks would call me a pessimist,

They’d say, I oughtta make the best if this

Well, maybe I am I pessimist

That’s somthin’ I really don’t know

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But here’s something I do know.

And I’ll tell you right now,

I’m milkin’ the wrong end of this old cow,

That stuff all got to go !…

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I’m gonna build me a bar

In the back of my car,

And drive myself to drink ! "

500 quatloos on the attaché!

He shouldn’t have given it a dog’s face. Attachés are better suited for rat races.