Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for December 17, 2018

Well, Murphy, feel free to interact with them on my behalf, too.

Watch out if you get one selling kibble or dog toys, though. Ballard dogs are a savvy lot, and pressing “1” is not out of the question.

We’ll hope Murphy is a good internet tracking dog, and he can do some interacting in the flesh with them. However, I don’t think capital punishment is right for a telemarketer…at least for the first time that they call….

We should all have a K-9 answering service like this.

Murphy, I get cold calls all the time from agents that want to buy my house. What do you suggest?

Murray is really talented, if he can handle a virtual dial pad.

I’ve got a few human friends who refuse to try…. two finally have cell phones… but only flip phones, because they want real buttons.

Another won’t even touch a cell phone. Or a cordless landline!

I was proud of her when she got a phone with buttons, instead of her ancient rotary dial. She had to when “pulse” service was discontinued.

 

But here’s Murray… barking into the phone… hanging up….

probably sometimes switching the caller to a message.

I only hope he doesn’t get the idea that he can bite them by biting the phone!

You can lose more phones that way.

 

Anyhow… every now and then I notice a re-run here, especially if there’s a strip from 2007 or 2008 that we saw on the 10-years-back Cleo forum.

It’s led me to wonder whether more of them are re-runs than we notice….

After all, the GoComics archive goes back to 2002, so there’s plenty of relatively unfamiliar material to choose from.

But I’ve never noticed any old strips where the “house telephone” was a smartphone…

It makes me think Jerry Van A is still hard at work.

YAY!

Meanwhile…. I posted this yesterday, Sunday, but, of course, that’s on Saturday’s strip…

Please forgive me if you already read it… I don’t think many people came back, and the coincidence just seems too good not to share.

I had just seen Sunday’s “Lug Nuts”….

and it struck me (and I posted there) that JC Duffy must never have been to Ballard Street.

 

https://www.gocomics.com/lug-nuts/2018/12/16

 

I said here, that I really wanted to invite him to the Tiki…. and explain about our Monkey Sheriff, who also owns the bar….

and our signature banana daks.

Crazy as his strip is…. he’d probably think I’ve …um….

well…. gone bananas.

 

Especially with SheriffMonkeyBlues banned…. and no posts even on his profile in almost a month.

I’m certainly not going to try to explain to Mr. Duffy that a banned Monkey appointed me the acting Sheriff of Ballard County. LOL

I hope that is a video chat.

Good morning Sheriff.

I too interact with them. But that language usage here is not PG.

He’s laying down Murphy’s Law…

Nine times out of ten they’re just robo-calls anyways so it wouldn’t matter.

I answer all robo-calls with Good Morning (afternoon) Hepler Industries, how may i direct your call?

Believe it or not this has cut our calls to only one or two a day,

Better Murphey than me.