Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 14, 2009

Thanks Marg! Turning 30 is a bit scary!

They’re a little sorry?

I’d run and hide if I were one of the neighbors…

I’ve got 32 years on you, ej. ;-D

I think the whole town should run and hide.

Happy Birthday, ejcapulet!

I am betting Big Ron’s middle name is… “Mo”

ejcapulet: Hippo birdy two ewe Hippo birdy two ewe Hippo birdy, hippo birdy. Hippo birdy two ewe!

Oh, sorry, happy belated birthday, Doc!

Thanks a million, everyone - you wouldn’t believe how nice it is to have someone think of me, especially since I’m so far away from my family!

HAPPY BDAY ejcapulet. I can’t pass up a bday wish!

Happy Birthday Ejc and Doc!

Here is the link to Cleo and Company:

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

Glad I don’t have a neighbor like Big Ron. But my neighbors make their statements with riding mowers and leaf blowers,

I know who put the dip in this comic strip.

Big Ron could fix it so that he would never have to leave the house.

Cleo is easily bored.

I suggest the neighbors keep a generous supply of rotting fruit handy.

Gosh, I thought it was Cleo.

I’d say Happy Birthday to EJCapulet…. but she hasn’t been here in years.

She was nervous about her thirtieth birthday…. and somewhere, today, she’s turning forty.

But Saucy…. it must be funny to revisit your 10-year-old comments when you post here now.

Thanks Dennis, for posting the link to the July 14th, 2019 “Cleo and Company” on Sherpa.

Just had to post the song Claude and Clara are quoting (cwoting?) …

It’s very funny, in case you don’t remember it from 1961.

Of course, of course…. I know you don’t…. none of you were even little bitty babies yet.

You all went to high school with Jless.

So you’ll be surprised to find that it’s actually a parody of that sort of lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXmsLe8t_ggy

In the comments under the video on YouTube, one person says it’s from “back when lyrics made sense.” Uh huh.

Also … in re yesterday’s puzzle…. by “two bonuses”, I only meant two more than the usual nine differences…. eleven, all together, not thirteen.

The only others I could find were just what are called “artifacts” … like stray pixels that got displaced or didn’t translate well when duplicated….

I.e…. small variations in the border, or the little dab of surrounding white background accidentally pasted over a tiny line below, when the missile launcher was reversed.

We’re only looking for purposeful differences… not minute deviations from impossible perfection..

Sorry… I gotta say goodnight before big Ron come out the door…..

G’night…

Darling, when I say dip dah dip , dah dip dah DIP!

You know I mean it from my Boogity Boggity Shoo…..

I think I just realized where Darrell Waltrip got his classic shout out at the green flag of Nascar races for many years.

“BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY! LET’S GO RACIN’ BOYS!”

Thanks a lot guys. There’s my earworm of the day.

Could be worse.

I keep waiting for Clara to smack him one. Or, at least wash his face with her dish cloth.

Cleo is just laying there and thinking: Oh geeze……….old folks.