Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 05, 2009

Perhaps you should just ask for a different office.

Hi, ejcapulet, nice to have you back.

Hi Marg, it’s great to be back.

That’s a pretty good trick, I don’t think I could balance a pen stand like that.

Take the money and run, Doyle.

Doyle appears to really be Ken Lewis……..another $100M golden parachute opening op for a soft landing.

I LOVE Ballard Street! Jerry’s one of the all time greatest at capturing the hidden human element.

Well, here we are again, my Cleo puzzle pals…

and anyone wandering the internet looking for something to do

It’s puzzle day in the Oct 5th  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”

Which you can find, and solve, on Sherpa

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

Or feel free to solve it using my side by side version:

https://i.postimg.cc/brqv5mNH/Cleo-nine-differences-Oct-5th-19.jpg

In either case… please come back here for the fun of discussing it…

as soon as a few others show up.

We’ll be in the Magnolia Room at the Tiki…. just ask Fenton to direct you.

Roast yak sandwiches will be served, on my special bakery bread…. and on my tab.

(Don’t worry; I get a discount. Right, like you were worried.)

Vegetarian and gluten free options will be available.

I’m quite surprised that this game didn’t get played this year.

BTW… I’d say today’s puzzle is rather tricky…

I was stuck on eight for a while… though when I did see the ninth, I did a virtual version of that V-8 juice head slap.

I’ll be back with the solution gif in a bit, of course.

The semi-anonymous gif-maker is stel on the job!

That cat isn’t Klaude… or Klawed…. who is large, and white.

This one looks rather Big Daddy Roth-like.

I can just picture Nighthawks practicing that style in high school….

The whistling wind and tumbleweeds in here are unusual for a Friday night/Saturday morning on Cleo…

Did you all find a party I don’t know about?

Oh! It’s at Edwina and Stanley’s, isn’t it?

I didn’t believe Harriet when she told me Edwina didn’t like me because she believed Alice, when Alice told her I said…

Oh never mind… it’s too complicated.

But Edwina should know I wouldn’t say a word about her salmon and cucumber jello mold, even if I didn’t think it should have little marshmallows in it.

Yes… I think Doyle should leave banking….

It looks like he’s trying to find balance in his life, but he won’t succeed with just his little hallway trick.

And I had to Google Ken Lewis….

Bank of America exec who “retired” after some epic mistakes in acquisitions…

with only a reported 53 million dollars in his retirement package.

If Doyle is the fellow on the floor, I believe he has already left banking. If Doyle is the fellow in the chair, I believe he has more immediate concerns than his career choice.

It’s as _Good a time as any to retire.

To get nabbed so late in the game is wrong.

Been having intermittent problems with the site tonight… it went down after my first two comments.

This page just finally refreshed but it refuses to display a “like” on Liverlips’ comment about Doyle…

I think you’re right, LL…. I shouldn’t have assumed Doyle was the fellow in the hall…. even though I still think that’s the most likely.

I also noticed that a couple of the “likes” already posted when I got here came from Dennis…

You had nothing to say, Dennis… so you decided to be a fly-by-night “liker?”

Anyhow… I think I will post the gif while it stel Can bi done.

Once again… no peeking, unless you’re sure you’ve done all the solving you can…. or you’ll lose 6 turns!

https://i.postimg.cc/RhFVLN0v/FTD-10-5-2019-AB.gif

PS… if you can’t see this post, the site was down.

Finally got ‘em all – took me some time. They’re subtle. One has Cleo speaking in German: “Voof!”

I just love the end of the game. Yay!

When I only had 4 differences, I walked away for a few minutes and found 4 more. But there was no way I saw #9. Again!!! Oh well, at least Cleo found her way home. ㋡

This was a tough, subtle one……only got 8. Maybe next week.

Got ’em!

so which was the hardest ….which was that ‘ninth’ one that came so hard to find?