Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 13, 2009

Yes….why do you think I drink?

Nice way to start a conversation.

It sure ain’t Happy Hour.

“Hey Vern”.

What’s up with this? This is not the usual Ballard Street.

And this strip makes no sense, does it??

Watch out guys. I just heard reports of the sighting of a lounge lizard.

I have a cornsnake living around my front deck. He’d end that conversation in two feedings. Rivet, rivet. Burp, burp,

For Cleo and Company (despite repeated promises by GoComics, still stuck on Comics Sherpa) for July 13th, 2019, go to http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy.

BTW, Happy Anniversary to the wife who has put up with me for 45 years.

What a sweet talker! A tongue of silver!

Hullo, gang…..

Thanks for posting the link, Farside….

I’m here, though… and it’s Saturday….

or will be by the time you morning people get here…. Still Friday night for me and Farside99 and Dennis.

Which means…. time to solve and comment on another “Find the Differences” Puzzle.

Yay! And this one has a bonus … two bonuses…. (bona? … bonii?)

See for yourself using Farside’s link to Sherpa…

Or go straight to my side by side version:

https://i.postimg.cc/cJbd826p/Cleo-nine-differences-July-13th-19-2-extra.png

And look…. courtesy of Nighthawks…. it’s the very one some of you asked for!

Now who says dreams don’t come true.

I’ll be back in a while (after I solve it) with a solution .gif from our semi-anonymous gifmaker.

That’s right…. he or she has sprung back into action.

I’m not suppose to tell you who….

but it’s stell …. I mean still… the same person.

I got 9 and was happy, then I noticed the heading saying there are 11! Well, I will wait, and hope for Susan’s help.

This is a bit of a strange outing for Jerry Van A….

but I think he used to like to experiment a bit more.

Maybe he had a frog in his throat…. or…. er… on his mind.

Or somebody toad him to do it.

Farside…. I forgot to ask…. since you say she’s “the wife who has put up with” you…

And Dennis…. I… um…. had already put up the side by side when you posted ….

looks like 10 minutes before you said goodbye.

That’s pretty close, though…. so maybe you just didn’t refresh before you left.

Unless you mean the gif… gonna wait a bit for that, though.

OK…. I’d better post the gif….

No new comments…. and I just caught myself dozing off.

I don’t want to catch any of you cheating….

Solve the puzzle before you peek.

Actually, in spite of having 11 differences, I thought it was one of the quicker ones to solve….

or maybe I was just lucky tonight.

Sometimes there’s an obscure little difference in a puzzle that my eye happens to fall on…

other times, I search for ages before I notice something blatantly obvious.

When you’re ready…. check it out.

https://i.postimg.cc/43sbD25h/FTD-7-13-2019.gif

Thank you, semi-anonymous gifmaker! You’re Swel.

That’s a first. I got them all in under 4 minutes.

I wanna move out west and join the Friday night brigade…….I hear Phoenix is lovely (an a tad on the warm side) this time of year

Yahoo! Yippee! WooHoo! I got all 11 in less than 5 minutes! (I always seem to be a little slow on Saturday) I think we’re all so successful this morning because NH didn’t slip in his usual sneaky differences.

I still think that is the cutest lil’ ole kitty cat, too.

“Barkeep! There’s no fly in my drink!”

Sorry, sorry, sorry. I just got Susan’s side-by-side up on screen when the power went out! I admitted defeat and went for an early walk (couldn’t even make a cup of tea!) So now I’m home, power is back on and everything is a couple of hours behind schedule (Laundry day too!)

p.s. I found all eleven — now for that tea!

Relatively easy time of it finding the eleven diffs. Must have been NH’s way of compensating for the extra two.

well, I hate to admit it , but when I completed this thing there were only supposed to be nine…..somehow

it got out of hand and I didn’t catch it…..good thing my trusty pruf reeder caught that there were more than nine,

so I just changed the title….

ok, everybody got them and had no problems….well, we can’t have THAT!

the next puzzle will have you guys cursing me..

well, I mean cursing me even more