Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 02, 2021

Yes, that is when he switched over to winching for atonement.

That’s winching, Carl, winching.

Oh, the shame of it all!

Is that a wench he is winching? Doesn’t look like it, but otherwise I struggle with the punchline.

Most men would love to give themselves over to wenching… most wives will winch them up tight to the porch railing.

Stand your ground there, Snuffy! Don’t give ’im an inch!

According to M-W, wenching is “consorting with lewd women”. That doesn’t look like what Carl is doing.

Is the guy in the yellow shirt winching Carl for wenching?

I was wincing at this one…

Wow. The RenFaire really needs a revamp.

Um, ok, y’all have this covered. I’ll just turn around and go.

Had a co-worker that kept a picture on his desk of a Jeep with a comely lass in the saddle. “Just what I always wanted, a Jeep with a wench.”

A man torn between two masters.

What a jerk.

That’s got to be a comic strip classic. Hey, Van Amerongen, who was that winch I saw you with last night?

I see no wenches. I do see a winch.

I think he means winching. Wenching involves women.

I’ve tried to quit many times. It is a shameful addiction, to be sure!

Scooter doesn’t know why, but he just started thinking about Miss Millie High-Maintenance…

Lots of great comments today! You don’t suppose Mr. Van Amerongen made that error on porpoise?

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Be that as it may, but in the image he’s winching. And maybe wincing. But there are no wenches in evidence.

He just can’t pulley himself away from it.

It’s " Winching"-not"Wenching".“Wenching” is the pursuit of the Babes!

When the sherrif hears about this, shame will be the least of his problems.

I think Carl is a bit confused, after seeing a pirate movie, in which the men went ashore, with intentions of “Wenching”.

Carl should have been stung by the shame if having an illiterate cartoonist.

Carl is wrenched by his winch winching in a wench disguised as Elroy and Scooter.