April 3, 2021

The Great Franklin Booth
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Katina Cooper
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3 years ago

It took a little while, but I got all of them, including the one that is a day early for the differences comic. I hope you didn’t get a virus for today. Everything is gone, including the day. What happened?

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Reply to  Katina Cooper
3 years ago

Everything’s OK now. Not to worry. No viruses here.

DennisinSeattle
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3 years ago

Earlier today, all comments from current and past strips were gone. Now comments are back but April 2 is missing!

perkycat
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Reply to  DennisinSeattle
3 years ago

Missing for me also. Only got a quick look at it because I had places to go and things to do, etc.etc. When I came back to it, it was gone.

Arfside
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Reply to  perkycat
3 years ago

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StelBel
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Reply to  perkycat
3 years ago

Sorry. All is well now.

Carry on.

Arfside
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Reply to  DennisinSeattle
3 years ago

Sorry, I changed your(?) emoji. Should have clicked on the gray one beside the original. It turns out the existing ones aren’t additive.

StelBel
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Reply to  DennisinSeattle
3 years ago

The 2 incidents definitely did happen, but were not related. Everything is back to “normal”.

SusanSunshine
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3 years ago

It’s back!

StelBel
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3 years ago

Yesterday’s page was inaccessible for a couple of hours due to a glitch, but Nighthawks just now fixed it and it’s back! Yayy!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

And we were all like…

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Tigressy
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Reply to  Arfside
3 years ago

You’re wearing a skirt?!? – I don’t judge; just wondering.

SusanSunshine
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3 years ago

I wasn’t expecting all the excitement, or for the puzzle to be posted so early…

I’ll be back soon with the side by side!

SusanSunshine
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3 years ago

Sorry, Cleo pals and puzzle people…

I had several interruptions… so “soon” wasn’t quite as soon as I planned.

But it’s STILL earlier than GoComics start time…

and here I am with your side by side version…

head right over here and solve away!:

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Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Got them all pretty fast. Their speed must be contagious.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Muchas gracias.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Got ’em!

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

7 in the original vertical format + 2 in the side-by-side: Yay, all nine.

Tigressy
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3 years ago

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Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Like in “The Girl on the Broomstick”?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 years ago

It’s as easy as taking candy from a baby.
I’m not certain, but I think I’ve seen this before. Animals are good at this sort of thing. Note that Bugs doesn’t even touch the baby.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
3 years ago

My dog did it at a garage sale… while on her leash and I thought closely supervised.

I looked away for just a second, and she swiftly grabbed a slice of bologna out of the hands of a tiny toddler who had just raised it to his mouth.

She gobbled it up before I could even react.

Luckily he screamed with laughter, and didn’t howl in anguish.

I scolded the dog, and apologised profusely to the Mom..

but she just laughed.. and gave the kid more bologna, which we both had to quickly stop him from handing to my dog.

Honestly I don’t think a dog OR a small child should be eating a slice of bologna…

but what can you do.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Here in Bavaria, it is?/was traditional for butchers to give a thick slice of “Gelbwurst” to toddlers.
That name derives from the yellow plastic casing; formerly (before BSE), that sausage contained brain and was called “Hirnwurst”.
Still fatty – like Bologna (or Lyoner)…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 years ago

We have some good sausages in the US…

but not as much a tradition of sausage-making as Germany.

In Bavaria, Gelbwurst or even the stuff you call Bologna sausage there, is probably something better than the usual junk we call bologna here…

(sorry bologna lovers.)

There are some artisan ones, and of course real mortadella from Italy… the original model for ours…

but most American bologna is the cheapest, most processed, lowest rung on the sausage ladder…

the same as or worse than hot dogs, only wider, and sliced.

It’s usually made of mechanically separated bits and trimmings, including organs that they can’t sell any other way, lard, and fillers like powdered milk, and sometimes grains.

Once all pork, but now may include chicken, turkey, beef… or soy…

finely ground, over-salted, pasteurized, pink from preservatives, and deriving 50 to 80% of its calories from fat.

I’m a meat eater but I avoid cheap bologna, and don’t like to see little children eating it.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Processed meats. Awful. Give me good butcher-shop Kielbasa any day.

StelBel
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Well, I just gotta say it:

SOUNDS LIKE A BUNCHA BALONEY TO ME! hahahahahaha

MontanaLady
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Reply to  StelBel
3 years ago

Somebody had to say it! LOL

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Reply to  MontanaLady
3 years ago

Hey, ML…..what’s going on with your green to purple user name and “Famed title/trophy” appearance and then, disappearance???

In other words, both your comments are different from each other.
Did you somehow get logged out, and therefore, you’ll have to log in again???

SusanSunshine
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3 years ago

¡Hola, Cleomigas y Cleomigos… pretty much time to post the solution to today’s puzzle…

but before I do, a word about the side by side.

Perhaps you can’t see it, as I can’t right now… but only a slender bar (or box) that says “Comment image”… and it doesn’t slowly reveal itself..

Or it IS visible in the the comments, but you’d like it to be as large as Nighthawks’ vertical post above…

It’s the same solution for both.

On GoComics, you could just click on it to open it larger in another window..

but here that only opens it in a special viewing window, at about the same size.

And the magnifier tool there only shows you a small part of the picture, with no way to scroll.

Instead, just right-click the image in the comment, or that text bar if you can’t see it… and choose “Open in a new window (or tab)”.

(That’s the Firefox instruction… it might be worded differently in your browser).

Most times that will take you straight to a larger image in its own window or tab…. where you can solve it, or save it, or copy and paste it into Paint.

SOME times… and I cannot figure out why or when… it will take you, instead, to the PostImage website…

and you might have to right click again and choose “view image.”

It still only takes seconds… and the panels will be the same size as Nighthawks posts.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Well – that’s all very nice (I guess?), but I don’t see a solution or link to it – yet?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 years ago

It’s posted now, a few minutes after your comment.

I did say “before I do, a word about the side by side.”

Patience, young grasshopper.

Por favor.

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Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

I assumed – like – “in the same comment”…

I’ve evolved:

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bambushie
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Thanks, that’s what I do!

StelBel
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

SEE MY COMMENT BELOW!

(AN ENLARGED VERSION OF THE SOLUTION IS READILY AVAILABLE FOR ME BY JUST CLICKING ONCE ON THE SOLUTION IMAGE.)

SusanSunshine
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3 years ago

OK, OK… so I’ll post the solution already….

Have you been good?

Have you given it your best shot?

You’re only hurting yourself if you peek too early, you know.

Well, that, and Cleo will bite you.

Or maybe Perro will mark you with a “P“.

A “P” for “peeker”.

… when you’re ready….

Click right here to see the SOLUTION.
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

OK…..maybe I’m “special” (well, of course I am!), but after clicking on your “spoiler solution”, all I have to do is click on the image again, and it appears on a black background and it’s about (at least) THREE TIMES LARGER!!!!

And, that doesn’t happen for you????

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  StelBel
3 years ago

It opens in the “internal” …. Ie part of WordPress…viewer window. Maybe because I only have a small laptop and a tablet, it’s only about the size I posted.

Right clicking the way I describe opens it in a fresh browser window… Much larger.

There also seems to be a weird glitch (on WordPress? I’m shocked!) where occasionally clicking the one in the exposed spoiler section opens a new browser window, instead…

But never the one posted visibly in the comment, like the side by side.

Posting in the comments changes the url when you click it to a WordPress one, but right clicking and opening in a new window still goes to the original URL…. In this case Postimage.

StelBel
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Even on my small iPad, when I click on it, it still shows up on a black background at least 3 times larger than the original that you posted in the spoiler. So, it works for me, anyway…….

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

How do I delete a comment?

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StelBel
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3 years ago

to P51Strega:

After you make a comment, wait a couple of minutes and even refresh your page. The Click to Edit options will show up under your comment. (No one else will see this but you.)

Click on it, and one of the options will be that you can delete your entire comment. You can also edit and add to your comment.
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It’s one of functions that happens to be easy to use, unlike some others we’ve run into! LOL

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Reply to  StelBel
3 years ago

I wonder how many people might mistake the above screen shot for an actual active comment. Sorry, folks….it does look realistic, doesn’t it?

Old Phart Plods
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3 years ago

Good morning, Cleopeeps! Q Date: 386.98853.85 T – 11D 2H 58M

Ting ting clang! Woohoo!

We celebrated Easter here last weekend while we had both great grands. Sorry about the fuzz

Y’all be safe. (((((HUGS)))))

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perkycat
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
3 years ago

What cuties! Great smiles.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
3 years ago

How adorable! Thanks for sharing!

StelBel
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
3 years ago

Your little sweeties are absolutely adorable, Plods!! Happy Easter to you all!!

Tigressy
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
3 years ago

Don’t let the Easter Bunny get your cuties’ cookies!!!

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3 years ago

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Liverlips McCracken
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3 years ago

That’s an awesome experience to have. They’re cute as a button and the one on the left looks old enough that she may even retain some memories of the holiday.

MontanaLady
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3 years ago

I got them all. WooHoo!

What a fun puzzle.

Liverlips McCracken
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3 years ago

The WELCOME mat is a nice, homey touch. Really softens Slurez’s image.

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