Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 31, 2009

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    margueritem  almost 16 years ago

    That is one tight fit, and not a pretty sight.

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    ejcapulet  almost 16 years ago

    Looks like one of those vacuum-sealed hams.

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    cleokaya  almost 16 years ago

    Rump roast anyone.

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member almost 16 years ago

    Be still my heart!!

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    DennisinSeattle  almost 6 years ago

    The flesh-on-glass here has a slightly different impact than at the bikini car-wash.

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    DennisinSeattle  almost 6 years ago

    Claude, some alarms do have a silence button, but usually the first step is to turn off the burner!

    Donā€™t give up on cooking, I am sure you will get the hang of it. Meanwhile, clean up your mess!

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Welcome, everybody!

    I do believe we have another brand new strip to talk about hereā€¦

    in the March 31st Ā 2019 ā€œCLEO and COMPANYā€

    (It isā€¦. umā€¦ isnā€™t it, Nighthawks? I donā€™t trust my memory since blowing it a time or maybe two.)

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    Decide for yourself, on Sherpa

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

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    And yikes.

    The only other thing Iā€™ve seen Claude ā€œcookā€ came plopping out of a canā€¦.

    so Iā€™d think the next step would beā€¦ ohā€¦ maybe something already prepared, in a packageā€¦

    that could be taken from the freezer, unwrapped, and ā€œcookedā€ for another 6 or 8 minutes in the microwave.

    Even that might be beyond his levelā€¦ but he could master it eventually.

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    But somewhere, he finds a complicated recipe, that even suggests rubbing a chicken with rock salt?

    Let me tell youā€¦. Iā€™ve been cooking for ā€¦umā€¦ ā–ˆā–ˆā–ˆ yearsā€¦.

    (Ooopsā€¦. whatever happened to my keyboard?ā€¦ )

    and I have never rubbed a chicken with rock saltā€¦.

    If Martha Stewart herself suggested it, Iā€™d think she had rock salt in her head.

    Sprinkle on a little Mortonā€™s iodized and not a soul can tell the difference.

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    Meanwhileā€¦. 4 big surprises for Claraā€¦.

    1) Claude attempted to cook.

    2) You have to wash or rewash at least six pots and pans with burnt food still stuck to them, and clean the stove.

    3) All of the food Claude cooked is burnt, oversalted, or otherwise ruined, and none is edibleā€¦. including the chicken youā€™d planned to cook for dinner.

    4) Youā€™re now expected to make some sort of dinner,

    in a wrecked kitchen, with your planned ingredients ruined.

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    ONE big surprise for Claudeā€¦.

    Youā€™re getting dressed up and taking Clara to a NICE restaurant.

    Before or after you scrub those pans, and the stove.

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    x_Tech  almost 6 years ago

    Claude, to disable the smoke alarm follow these steps

    1. Gently knock the alarm fro the ceiling.

    2. Carefully put the battery out of the battery compartment.

    3. At this point you should see two wires connected to the battery, a red and a black wire.

    4. Very carefully now cut the red wireā€¦

    No. no, wait, cut the black oneā€¦

    Oh heck, just throw the whole mess out the window.

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    GROG Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Thereā€™s no room to swing a cat.

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    GROG Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Sheā€™ll be surprised alright.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    You may have noticed that I didnā€™t say anything about the Ballard Street strip above.

    I couldnā€™t.

    The first thing I did when I came in here was throw a towel over it.

    Hope somebody will let me know when Gunther gets out of the shower.

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    Now donā€™t get me wrong. I donā€™t make fun of people because of their weightā€¦

    People come in many variations, and I donā€™t understand why only certain sizes, shapes, or colors are supposed to be attractive.

    But all that flesh squeezed against all that glass is justā€¦. you knowā€¦ kinda.. towel-worthy.

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    Meanwhile, from yesterdayā€¦.

    Nighthawks, you give me too much credit!

    And youā€™re too hard on yourself about that extra difference.

    I think the secret is in what Dennis mentionedā€¦. a small area on the left that could be considered to contain 1, 2 or 3 differences.

    But no two of them move the same distance, and their spacial relationship changes, so I call it three.

    JLess, you may have actually found them all, but counted those differently.

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    And JP Steveā€¦ Forgive me if Iā€™m wrongā€¦. but it sounds like maybe youā€™re not saving the image and marking the differences?

    I find that almost impossible to keep track of.

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    I always suggest right-clicking (or whatever works on a Mac) and saving or copying either the original or my side by side puzzleā€¦.

    Open it with, or paste it into, a simple image program like MS Paint orā€¦. um.. I think MacPaint is defunct but thereā€™s something now called Paintbrush, or you can use Preview.

    Maybe some of you have a greeting card program, or a simple drawing app, or you know how to use Gimp.

    In any caseā€¦ circle or mark the changesā€¦ I find it easier to count if I do it all on the same side, even if it means I circle something missing there.

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    Itā€™s not ā€œcheatingā€ā€¦ youā€™re still finding themā€¦ but saving your sanity.

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    MontanaLady  almost 6 years ago

    I know, Gunther is really a trim, slim person. Heā€™s just using one of those RV showers.

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    MontanaLady  almost 6 years ago

    Well, Claude started out being a Sweetheart and surprising Clara. And look. He even got all dressed up with those cute suspenders, too. Maybe itā€™s Claraā€™s birthday?

    Someone call the fire department!

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    Perkycat  almost 6 years ago

    Clara is definitely going to be surprised. As life-saving as smoke alarms are, they can be annoying. We have one that is sooooo hard to open up to change the battery. Did you know the fire department will come out and change your smoke alarm batteries? I might get to that point.

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    JP Steve Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    I wonder if Claude is onto something, having the smoke detector handy in the kitchen? Mine is at the far end of the hall, by the bedrooms and is designed to trigger whenever at least three other tasks require my undivided attention. (It is not necessary for an appliance to be turned on.) The end result is the same, but at least Claude has not had to abandon the kitchen!

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