Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 20, 2023

No Fred, neither of those is the secret handshake

If only they could agree on the secret signal.

The rest of Ballard St. hopes that it will stay a secret.

Fred seems to be sniffing his arm pit in the middle of his salute. Is that another secret gesture?

TOO LATE!!! The secret’s out.

A few more like that and their lodge could be a mason ing

Bonnie is peeking!

They should try dancing – Like John Travolta and Uma Thurman.

Fred needs to work a little more on his hand puppet salute.

They both appear to be left handed – on their right arms, though…

Sign and Counter Sign. Now on to the secret handshake and verbal challenge and response.

Good morning Balladeers and Tigressy!!

“Dinner’s ready.”

“Be right there.”

It may be secret, but it’s still boring…

They have a good start on an Anti-Three Monkeys No-Evil salute. Maybe, Mabel, next door, will join. She can’t speak good of anyone.

Perhaps, but this is a clear signal pointing to the kitchen and it’s lunch time.

Their secret salute started by accident, after Fred’s refusal to use deodorant gave Bonnie a terrible headache.

Bonnie and Bob signaling silence is golden!

To their surprise, the 17-minute-long secret handshake suddenly evolves into a mating ritual.

Their idea of a secret society is guessing how many fingers he’s holding up? Huh?

The Mrs and I sort of did. When out and not wanting others to know what we were discussing we would switch to Scots Gaelic. We tried that up here in BC and found another 10 – 25 in our little town. And a whole community in the BC Bagpipers Association. And French is no good as mine is not beyond 9th grade level and every 7th grader up here has that as a first or second language already.

Hopefully, they don’t poke any eyes out with those finger gestures.

if they need any tips they can reach me on my shoe phone…

Looks like their version of the Batusi.