Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 17, 2008

They could have used him in Stalag 17.

I’ve been to parties like that!

I should have made a left turn at Albuquerque.

Wow, Bob, I wish I had that skill!

Nighthawks makes us choke on this pun twice in one night!

NH, I am sure you saw that Hopper’s Chop Suey was sold to a private collector. It had been promised to the Seattle Art Museum, but after the old guy died, that promise went with him. Same with 60 other pieces.

Hi, everybody!

What day is it? Iiiit’s PUZZLE day!

A new Find The Differences Puzzle to solve and discuss….

on the Nov 10th  2018 “CLEO and COMPANY”

Find it on Sherpa….

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

With no further ado…. here’s your side by side….

https://i.postimg.cc/d0KN3CZb/Cleo-nine-differences-Nov-17th-18.png

Happy solving.

Sorry I wasn’t here last night… I had a longish day…. just couldn’t stay awake.

I managed a couple of short comments elsewhere…. and gave up.

Besides, I wanted to save my energy for Gene and Wanda’s party tonight….

Oh dear…. I hope it’s not as bad as Bob thinks.

Maybe we should try to remember where his escape tunnel starts… just in case.

Besides… you wouldn’t want to step in it accidentally.

Susan, keep track of where that tunnel starts. I just noticed that Johnny and Frankie are here. I that heard after everyone solves today’s Cleo & Co, puzzle they will regale us with a musical rendition of their love story.

https://i.postimg.cc/YSgysJJ6/Cleo20181117.gif

This week peeking is allowed.

First thing, Stalag 17 was an outstanding movie. If you think so, and you have not seen Chicken Run, the animated movie made by the Wallace & Gromit creator, go watch Chicken Run! The opening alone will have you in stitches, while little kids look at you as if “That’s it. Gran’s completely lost it.”

7!!! is my total!!! I only ceas 7 Happy weekend all X

More like Julius Geeser.

They call him the mole.

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SPECIAL GROANIE AWARD EDITION

“Saturday Non Puzzle Non Solution Regular Regalement”

AND THE TURKEY AWARD TURKEY AWARD FOR CONSISTENT GROANINESS IN A SHERPA COMIC STRIPGOES TO …. *

   1.  Top panel: Claude’s eyesight is so poor (see No. 4 below) he’s pointing at a statue of famous Clevelander Viktor Schreckengost and thinks it’s Julius’ wife. Bottom panel: Claude is pointing at Julius’ wife who also happens to be refereeing a mud wrestling match between Sarah Huckabee Sanders & Jim Acosta.

   2.  Top: Cheapskate cartoonist tried to save a few bucks by omitting legs from the bench. Bottom: Bench legs made of invisible wood from Enchanted Forest at Nipmuck State Park.

   3.  Top: White puffy thing at top right is heretofore unseen iCloud® where Nighthawks stores fan letters from adoring fans. Bottom: White puffy thing is smoke from bonfire fueled by You-Know-Who’s tax returns, love notes from Putin, etc. in advance of anticipated Jan.1 subpoena from Nancy Pelosi.

   4.  Top: Claude has Cleo on a leash to prevent her from escaping to pursue her lifelong dream of participating in greyhound races. Bottom: Cleo has Claude on a leash to prevent him from escaping to pursue his lifelong dream of strangling Nighthawks for drawing him with stolen rear view mirror from ’57 Studebaker instead of regular eyeglasses.

   5.  Top: Purple buildings represents Cleveland’s status as royalty amongst cities mocked by cartoonists everywhere. Bottom: Purplie buildings are purplie because … PURPLIE!

   6-9.  Highly technical. Only MontanaLady whose hubby is home!; Hitchcock fan Perkycat; SHE MC, who never responds when I mention here here; Paws4Thought aka Val, who’s who’s back and we’re glad!; [Cont. ↓]

[Continued from above]; SusanSunshine, who was AWOL for a few hours yesterday but is back now (and we’re glad!); and StillTheBelle, who must have been using ink made from famous invisible ink trees in the Enchanted Forest at Nipmuck State Park to comment this week, would understand.

* I think we all know who gets the Coveted Groanie Award

(Hint: It’s not StillTheBelle, Stephan Pastis, or Teresa Burritt)

Got ‘em all even before I looked at Susan’s side-by-side. I might almost say today’s puzzle was Julius easier… (or I might not…)

I’ve been looking at the puzzle while talking to my daughter on the phone for almost an hour ~~ still only found 8. Thanks X, I don’t think I would have ever figured out that last one.

I got all 9!!!!! Yippee! What fun this was! And, yes, I enjoyed the purplie buildings, too.

We’re all ahead 7 days on Susan’s chart… Just sayin’

The mole the merrier.