Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 06, 2009

That is just wrong…

How depressing!

“Help him, help him” “Help who?” “Help him, help the bombardier”. “I’m the bombardier and I’m o.k.”. “Then help him, help him”.

OMG!!

Tough to fit a flying helmet on a head shaped like a peanut….

For the Cleo and Company comic for today, Saturday, July 6th, go to http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Oh my! I was not prepared for it to be Friday night! Lots of opportunities for Nighthawks trickery here! I saw a bunch on a quick perusal, but I will wait for Susan’s side-by=side to do an official count. I know she will show up!

Then why bother? Besides, you look ridiculous.

Hey, you don’t have to advertise to me. I’m sold!

Got it! Some tricky ones involved – again.

Hi everybody…. I’m here, I’m here!

Thanks, Farside, for posting the links….

And Dennis, for your faith in my showing up.

 

Saturday, of course, is puzzle day…. and we have a great one tonight.

And I’m not just saying that cos I’m in_ it.

OK, yes I am….. LOL…..

No…. actually, because it looks like fun…. and it’s an ad for our favorite comic!

It’s quite appropriate for me to be in a puzzle…. sigh…..

 

Like Dennis, being on the west Coast I tend to think of it as the Friday night puzzle.

Which explains the fact that I messed up the title of my side-by-side…..

I’m used to making it before midnight, and having to remember that if my computer says it’s the 6th, it’s really the puzzle for the 7th.

Only tonight, it was after midnight, so the date had already changed…. and I added a day anyway. Sigh….

 

It should still work, I think all the parts are in order….

And I’ll let you have it half price because I goofed:

https://i.postimg.cc/XqFkZFhL/Cleo-nine-differences-July-7th-19.png

 

The semi-anonymous gifmaker didn’t send me a gif.

I’ll figure something out about posting a “hidden” solution…. after I solve it.

Talk about faith.

At least that wasn’t Clovis-Rex walking down the street to meet up with the evil cat. Cleo would have been hiding inside Claude’s shirt because both of them would have been after her.

OK…. I found nine differences….

and posted a list of them on Ballard Street for January 1st 2006:

https://www.gocomics.com/ballardstreet/2006/01/01

 

As far as I know, there are only nine…. um…. I mean, of course there are only nine….

and the list is my own interpretation.

If you see anything else or wish to discuss whatever you think I got wrong….

it would be good to post it there or wait till later in the day tomorrow to post it here…

after all solvers get a chance.

 

Peeking, and then lying about solving the puzzle is forbidden, of course.

We have Klaude and we know how to use him.

 

Tigressy….

That picture of me has a history here.

It was originally a Ballard Street cartoon…..

 

https://assets.amuniversal.com/2a6572f0d732012fe5f3001dd8b71c47.gif

 

I identified with it…. so I pasted my avatar head on it, and used it in several ways, back when we could freely post pictures….

and StelBel and I, among others, often added illustrations to our comments.

 

In fact, at one point, StelBel created a hat for me with a “grinder” on it (the Monkey’s word for a blender) because I ran the grinder at the Tiki.

I glittered it, which made it look animated…. and pasted that into the same picture too… with glitter hair…

https://s26.postimg.cc/ryp55sk15/Me_in_GLITTER_Grinder_hat.gif

 

Then, when Stel started working with Nighthawks, they made a special animated strip for me based on it, as well…. but with Cleo added, and redrawn by Nighthawks… I love it!

It ran on my birthday…. April 16th, 2017 and 2018.

You can look with the calendar on the page….

I can’t remember, if I ever knew, how to link to Cleo on a specific date.

That’s the image used in today’s puzzle.

Wow! What a history lesson!

And, who felt that 7.1 earthquake last night?

I can’t believe it, I got all 9!!! I think this will be a good Saturday!!!

Got em. A mix of the obvious and the sneaky.

Hey GIRL! I’m here, late, so I missed you! ((((((MISS SUSAN!!))))) Hope you see the hugs!

Fortunately, he’s carrying really big bombs.