Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 24, 2013

It takes him 3 hours to get to the train station.

snowden fakes out the nsa

I thought maybe Corey just never “got” that next step after crawling…..

I can understand, if that’s it….

After all, when he was a baby, crawling took him everywhere he needed to go….so maybe he just never felt the need to stand up.

Why try to balance on two legs and hold your head 6 feet above the floor, when a fall is much less likely, to say nothing of safer,on FOUR legs, and from much lower.

Um, Radish….

width=“375” helps a lot.

Bev… are you here this time?

Hmmm Grog said back there he hoped I didn’t come back with a buzz cut….

Um… Grog… I give ‘em, I don’t GET ’em.

Haircuts I mean.

In my salon on Ballard Street AND way out in Western Ballard County.

Yay! can we finally have a drink together?I’m buying!

Sure, Bev. How’s 3:27?

Oh… OK…. but you will want my glitter, won’t you?

What’ll you have to drink?

Fenton, a Glenfiddich neat, for me, please…and Bev?

At least he hasn’t got those shoes on the wrong feet.

Bev…. opposite to what the Beatles sang….in that lovely and NOT too long song….

Don’t let her under your skin….

And I refuse to call her a Prof of anything.

True, Ed…. not like some other toons.

And sure… coming right up.

Fenton, I’ll buy Mr. Clectic a Wild Turkey tonight….

since I’ve never bought him a drink.

Bev… she LOVES getting a response. Any response.She’s a sad, lonely person who thrives on negative attention cos it makes her feel important,as does calling herself a professor.Whatever people say just makes her laugh.

G’night Bev…I’ll try to check it out….

Sweet dreams!

Stel…. whenever you get here…thanks, from yesterday….

And did the Monkey ever tell you the answer?It’s so frustrating!

And Shika… yes, I think Bev is forgiven.

I like snickerdoodles.

Gosh Bev…. I thought you were gone…. sorry!

Ah yes; La Belle Franglaise – I reckon she might be one of those people who peers from behind the curtains and reports the neighbours for cutting their grass when she’s got the washing out.

@pcolli @beviek @SusanSunshine@et al who may agree

re the troll per se…

Like a rectum: although all of us have one, some of them can certainly stink.Oh, maybe I’ve said too much…apologies to those possibly offended, butt that’s my story and I’m stinkin’ to it.

This is SUCH a weird strip. Such whacky inventiveness on a daily basis is amazing. ~ Don’t think I’d ever like to meet the cartoonist, though.

Why is she still allowed on GoComics?

Lots of people said they flagged her tonight.

That must happen to her a lot, so it must depend on more than flagging.

She’s been banned before… what would it take now?

I rarely see or respond to her but when I do I call her Andrea.

Sherbert … I would LOVE to meet the cartoonist.

So if you’re ever about to run into him and you don’t want to, just give me a call and I’ll take your place, OK?

Well I don’t think he can say call me the breeze.

I’ll be going for the buzz cut this morning, Susan.

Corey has always been a bland guy, responsible and reliable, but just not very interesting. And, since moving to Ballard St. this past January, he has noticed a few things with his neighbors:On January 12, Alex started hurling shoes into his yard…

Corey saved all the shoes.

On February 15, Thomas, the president of the Dexterity Society , takes a nose dive and dislocates both knees and both shoulders…

Corey starts feeling unsafe walking upright.

On March 4, the weight of insufficient retirement planning has forced Gene to his knees.

Corey used his life savings to help out the Nigerian royal family.

On May 8, Neal and Mr. Parmalee, the bank president, disagree on the proper angle to wear their shoe hats at the innaugural meeting of the Shoehat Society.

Corey doesn’t know who to believe anymore…and decides wearing shoes on his head isn’t for him.

On June 1, the next-door neighbor, Monty, decided to start creeping about on all fours with artificial cat’s paws.

Corey admires Monty’s ability to keep a lower profile than Corey’s been managing to do all these years. Corey makes his final decision. It’ll be slow going, but he tries to keep time with the Ballard St. Official Anthem.

@ icky mudd

I just left a message for you at Citizen Dog !

Yes, Bev. I agree. I was going to make a relevant -to – the – strip comment over there about horses and horses a$$es but decided I’d ignore her and just flag her instead. !

Cory’s no heel, though. He’s become the life and sole of the party. He just gets a little tongue-tied. But at least he’s not as straight laced as Mr. Parmelee.

Glad to see he is doing the walk “Manly Bear Style” In keeping with Men Live Like Bears in Caves week on the Discovery Channel.

Needs Nikes.

OH Stel, such a great storied collection on the footwear of Ballard St! Love it! And yes, Susan Radish could have shrunk it but I loved that the way it appeared on my page, the creator.com ad appeared to be a billboard someone was carrying.

The even I attended last Saturday had 2 ladies with outlandishly colored hair (like some I see at the Tiki above). One was bright pink and the other turquoise. Since most of us were in Medieval garb, that stood out but we had lots of fun and SCA is a game (after all). Some folks are too darned serious while I have no problem with the Pirates and Belly Dancers among us. LOL

That mobile Tiki needs to have Fenton (or a friend of his) because open serve yourself bar can become a problem. I’m headed to the gym now but I’ll stop back for a nightcap later.

The trouble is that she hasn’t actually said anything which could be construed as being “legally” offensive..Until then she will continue to entertain us and give us good reason to vent our spleen..There’s a woman over the road from us who has every illness under the sun, who sees all and knows nothing. I wonder if it’s her.

Hi Beviek!

Wow… twice in 24 hours!Unless you just left….

Radish…. Fremont, eh?Funny cos when I looked at it, I thought “Hey, that looks like Santa Rosa.”

Just has that Bay Area look, I guess….

But I thought you were up in the PNW someplace…Were you slumming last weekend?

Dazz… yes, large pictures sometimes look great…. to SOME people.

But not everybody thinks the same pictures are interesting, or relevant … yours is, Radish!….

Lots of users aren’t lucky enough to have fast computers, or broadband.Dial-up modems & old computers hang for ages on large files….

And recently, GoComics deleted old pics from PhotoBucket and Flicker.

If people using these forums as personal photo albums, or not limiting file sizes, makes bandwidth usage grow, GoComics may disallow all image posting.

I’m aware of her, I just did not know what she was calling herself now.

@Susan,I thought you were telling Radish to cut it down and I must admit I like the larger photos because I still don’t wear glasses (except for calligraphy-which I always did).

Since you seem to know more about the bandwidth I have always wondered 2 things: 1) if a large photo is posted with a limiting size in the HTML (which sometimes doesn’t work now) but does THAT make it take less bandwidth? and 2) If a photo is repeated on multiple places (IE Holiday cards) if I see one that is already posted on a different ’toon within GoComics and I reference THAT as my URL to “ditto” the greeting, does that save on bandwidth as I would assume?

It’s not nekkid, but I find this offensive. I’d rather see a butt crack than that.

Dazz….

Any time you open a page, any visible pictures on it are loaded into your computer’s memory from their remote locations.

I always thought that limiting their size using the width attribute would limit the bandwidth used to do that,

But I recently read an online article that said the browser would still download the whole image… and advised that if your bandwidth is limited, as on PhotoBucket or a free website, you should crop closely and then re-size before uploading to a host.

But, especially on a small monitor, tablet, or phone, a smaller image doesn’t take up the whole screen and is certainly less annoying to scroll.

On most computers, a downloaded image is stored for a while in your “cache”…. so when you see it again, usually the already downloaded file is re-used.But no matter where you got it, even another spot on GoComics, a new viewer’s computer must still download the image from its host.

Horsey!!!

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… and his socks always have holes.

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