Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 12, 2016

I can see how Spunky got his name.

Spunky would’ve became the Late Spunky if the dresser had a little more momentum.

#6, your limerick yesterday was a stretch, but it works!

No.6At first I thought, “damn doesn’t rhyme” then…………..lol

Revenge!

Rose re: no 6: A little discretion gets you published! This is an old tradition of substituting a non-rhyming word for an expected, rhyming, non-publishable word. For example:Benny Bell made his living with this shhh…aving cream

Falling asleep here… but nobody has said the obvious, so I gotta….In re Spunky….When ya gotta go, ya gotta go!

BTW, @Six… didn’t you mean my fourth Ballard St comic?

Couldn’t see anything in the third… but then I looked at the next one.Either we have different vision… or you saw what I don’t want to admit I saw.

Poor Spunky – he was fit to be tied I’ll wager.

Spunky was the name of Rocko’s dog.

@Beviek your Casino dogs all have blazed faces. image host

@number 6 your new avatar reminds me of this cliphttp://dai.ly/x4k0vmr

All I can say on poor Spunky’s behalf, is that: " When ya gotta go, ya gotta go ! "

And Spunky being a well house-trained pouch, prefers piddling on the petunias rather than pooping in the parlor.

Didn’t they notice that it had wheels? (The dresser, not Spunky)

It got too late to find this last night.

Nearly drawered his last breath.

Dennis… Gary Larson has written articles and blog posts in various places begging people not to post his cartoons on the internet. He gets very upset.

That’s one reason you see so few. For myself, I seldom post other people’s cartoons on an individual cartoonist’s forum, anyway, unless I’ve asked whether he minds…Nighthawks, for instance, doesn’t. I’ve run into a few who do let it be known that they get upset at seeing “competing” work in their own showcase.I have no idea how Jerry van A feels… but that’s why I stick to vintage Ballard street strips when I post a string here.Of course, that’s just my own decision.