Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 06, 2013

Try doing OK. You could do worse.

’Tis verily a problem, a little birdie told me….

Good to see we have a “Bob’s Burgers” fan working at the blog. Best animated show on TV today. Check it out folks. Sunday nights on Fox.

another wise saying from the pastel owl

Try doing Betty.She’s EZ…

Looks like a Crabbypatty to me.

Try to do “new and improved”?

Perhaps it has something to do with your definition of “do.”

That did not help the elephant ;-(

Suzanne’s fruit is very lush painted that way in watercolours (or it may just be that my diet has no fruit right now) – YUM!

acquire a taste for worse

Never give up little buddy. You could still become the wise old owl that finds out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. 1, 2…...Sorry Teresa I just couldn’t help myself.

Your personal “better” can be taken by no one but you.

Then you are living my life.

Then that person wasn’t “better” after all.

One mans ‘better’ is another mans worse.

Cheeseburger animation looks like the intro to Bob’s Burgers on Fox…. hilarious show btw.http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/2013/04/cheeseburger.html

OK, been looking at that boat on the blog for two days. What the heck is Swedish Pirate for “AAR !” ? It’s been stolen from the caption, and the captain hasn’t noticed.

It’s FA-less Blue Monday….

Following on from an FB-less Sunday too!How are you doing, Teresa? Miss you!

(sigh..)Missing you Teresa…

Dear Teresa, “Better” called. He says he is “Taken” and wants you to play the Liam Neeson part.

No, I’m lying. Better says stop treating him like an SAT score.

No, I’m lying again. Come and get me. Please!

Frog-life is spinning, spinning, spinning out of control. No FA; no FB….We believe, Teresa; we hope to see you back soon!

must be a relapse of past symptology.

I’m feeling Better.but Better is playing hard to get.

@GoComics

“FREE GWEEDO MURRAY!”

Where’s the new FA?

The_Frog Blog_ has not had anything added either.I hope Teresa os OK.

always more fish in the sea

If you “do” better, will better respect you in the morning?

I know where she is.

Where might she be SwimsWithSharks?

Hmmm- mo new FA or Blog entries for days at a time. Could our dear Teresa have suffered the same fate as so many posters, and actually been banned from posting by the Dark Overlords?

Make that “Hmmm- no new..”, etc.

Well, whatever it is, I’m against it. Against it on priciple if I had any.

Hope everything’s okay with you, Miss T.!

—What Treerabbit said/drew….

What ever the situation is, we’ll hang on ’til you get back. Unlike one or two of the dormant strips on this site.

Are you using those 75 sick days?I hope you’re just faking la peste bubonique.

I think Glen Beck got to her. Isn’t that a description of his dream utopia town?

But I miss you!

WAAH!

Adding my voice to the chorus of well-wishers, @Teresa. We miss you and hope that you are safe and sound.

I miss Teresa, and her absence is another opportunity to peruse the archives… hope all is well with you and Vlad

It’s the end of Frog Applause. good Bye….

Perhaps we’re looking at a bit of burnout.

Congratulations, Teresa!…………….I’m so sorry, Teresa!…………Relax, Teresa!…………Come back, Teresa!

After seeing no FA or FB updates in over a week and no announcement of Teresa’s status, I have now reached the point of being worried.

Think that’s Theresa working on the castle?

Oh God! It’s still growing. I thought he had moved on… (loved the mouseover on the Adobe update)

It’s not all that uncommon for there to be gaps in Teresa’s postings. If there was something really horribly wrong, she’d probably let us know. I have a feeling she will soon return.

That’s just my hunch, nothing more.

Maybe Vlad went off his meds and….

I find myself drawn to check every so often (even knowing that GoComics will SHOW when FA posts again). It would be nice to know what is going on. I told my lover that he should make me a brief movie with a pleasant message so I can see and hear him when he is too busy to call. I did some for him (easy with the webcam) and even sang on one.

I HOPE that Vlad did not go off his meds. (Tho I don’t understand needing meds to stay sane). I stopped taking BP meds over a month ago and had really low readings yesterday (low for me- under 140 with warmer weather).

Where is Teresa, Vlad, anybody, no FA, no blog. I’m about to go into a deep depression.

Missing you, Teresa.

I miss my dear little frogHer and that cute little blogI hope her recovery is going quite wellHearing from her would be really swellI do not fear reprisals from VladThough my rhyming is really badI’m sure he is a capable nurseMore so than this verseWe hope Teresa is on the mendAnd to her our best wishes we do send.

Jeepers, Teresa…hope you’re okay. Keep Vlad away from the thermometers; he doesn’t know the difference between an oral and a rectal one I bet.

loved the rock to the face comment beviek! we do love you teresa!

On March 28 at 9:41pm it was a 195 frame animated GIF. The updates now are single frame PNG’s. I wonder how many I missed? Are you sure it’s only one per day? It would be interesting to have them all and assemble them into an animation…

No way is it one change a day, I’ve seen 2 changes or more a couple of times. I’ve been keeping a tab open so I can check it multiple times a day. Can you put the GIF up so I could download it?

Teresa, if you don’t return soon, I will hire a Chinese sweatshop operation to start cranking out bootleg Frog Applause.

Shouldn’t that be LAME content?

all frog applause shall have to be checked for lameness by frog blogness… and sent to DAZZ, beviek and Sisyphos for final approval.

sorry SwimswithSharks I did not forget you

The news on the Frog Blog is not good. Not good at all.

Vlad is dead????

Vlad dead?! NO, say it isn’t so.

Rats, I’d rather be in the dark than hear that Vlad is dead and his account is closed. WAAH!!! So sorry to hear the sad news, Miss T.

We’re all with you, Teresa.

Wow. My condolences to you Teresa. I am really sorry.

In Kafkaville the Funerals Run on Time, by William John Watkins.Published in the November 1995 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction.“When he came home, he was dead and gone to all he knew, officially through with the need for anything. All agreed it was a shame a misspelled name could take away so much in such a permanent way.”

Teresa, we miss you. Sending you our very best wishes.

Darn. I thought we were making good progress.

“In our symptoms is our soul.”

Well, while I had come to make FA and FB part of my “everyday” I find that I have become most fond of the person behind their creation. I care!

Hey Teresa: Hang in there. Many good (and nearly good) folks out here wishing you well.

You are so missed and I wish you well.

Lost, lost, lost…

Teresa….a lot of people love you and need you in their lives.

Hope everything is OK or at least gets better… miss this and the blog :(

Uh oh. Got a bad feeling about this. Keeping you in my thoughts, Teresa. And hoping for your return sooner than later.

This bodes not well for me. I may have to change my avatar.

I miss you Teresa, and wish you safe passage through whatever difficulties you’re facing. Peace.

I am inconsolable. Vlad is dead. RIP Vladdy, boychik, where ever you are.

So sorry to hear about Vlad :(

I’m sorry for your lost Theresa. May Vlad Rest In Peace. I’m very sorry. :(

Let’s look at the bright side: As cryptic as her message on the blog may be, the fact that she posted it means she’s not dead or in a coma.

That may sound indelicate, but it’s something. People get incapacitated all the time.

RIP my favorite correspondent – Vlad.

I am willing to wait.

Thank You! I had no idea that site existed. In retrospect, considering the nature of the internet, I should have known to search for it but there you are.

Somebody knows what’s happen to Vlad ? And Theresa is she sick or did they or she had an accident ? Vlad was sick ? I wonder. Thank’s

Teresa, I’m very sorry it has come to this, but you left me with no choice. I have hired the aforementioned Chinese sweatshop to begin producing knock-off/bootleg Frog Applause. Here is the first installment.

(Please click thumbnail to enlarge)

I saw “Vlad is dead”. So I thing that Theresa boy’s friend is dead for real. But english is not my first language, I hope I’m wrong. Does VLAD is or was her boy friend or not ?

Thanks people. I just give the general specifications for Fake Frog Applause to the facility in China and then they put it together. It only costs me a dollar an hour, so I figure I could afford to get them to generate fifty or sixty a month.

rainette: not to worry, Vlad was not Teresa’s boyfriend

rainette: also, see previous posting of pepelaputr for explanation that may satisfy your curosity

Thank’s Daffy, yes I’m a very curious person and I’m happy that Vlad is not a person. I’m going to read pepelaputr rigth away.

thank you JohnnyDiego for your time line . May it hold to the truth for al us FB and FB kiddios.

sorry FA and FB dodos.

Weird. I just tried to check the blog and was asked to sign in throuigh Google. Then I got this message: “This blog is open to invited readers only.”

This is disturbing.

Teresa’s Twitter feed doesn’t show any recent activity. Evidently Frog Applause had a Facebook presence, but it’s vanished. Shoecabbage shows nothing since January. Claude Rains would be green with envy over the way she’s vanished.

You folks are not suffering alone. I too have been disinvited from the party. I feel so abandoned!

I don’t want to speculate, because speculation is useless, but this is disturbing. I really hope she’s OK, but I feel it’s important to balance that with respect for her boundaries.

If she’s closing or staying off all of her various blog, e-mail, GoComics, and social media accounts, that may mean that, for whatever reason, that’s what she needs to do.

I care, and I sincerely hope she’s OK, but I recognize the fact that I am not owed an explanation.

As for the GoComics overlords, they’ve probably never dealt with a situation quite like this before, but I doubt they’d be willing to disclose personal information about one of their artists.

As worrying as it may be, it’s possible the most respectful and supportive thing we can do right now is to try and accept the fact that we aren’t going to get any answers any time soon.

At this point, I think I would settle for a single panel that says, “This space intentionally left blank.”

My day won’t be the same without a regular dose of Frog Blog – you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.

I think I have only made a comment or two down through the years, but I have been a regular reader of the strip and blog. I even have Frog Blog as my home page and was always the first site I came to after getting home from work in the morning. Then onto GoComics, where Frog Applause was the first comic I read. I have my own blog and have used some of the things she has posted on her’s, always with full credit and a link back to Frog Blog. Can’t even begin to tell you all how much I miss my daily dose of “lame”. Just wanted to add my concern to the many that have voiced it already. Teresa you are missed and no matter what has exactly happened, I sincerely wish you the best.

To Teresa …

As JasherX said well: “Teresa you are missed and no matter what has exactly happened, I sincerely wish you the best.”

Sorry to see the end of FA and FB, FB was the only site I enjoyed enough to check for updates several times a day. I will miss the eclectic posts of art strangeness, nostalgia, all of it, hope Theresa is ok, and wish her all the best in her future endeavors, and if we are lucky we can find her art etc. in another venue in the future.

’Bye Teresa. XX

As an infrequent commentator, but fervent admirer, I also hope all is well with Teresa. I miss the blog and the strip, but also respect whatever is going on in her life. As someone stated, she doesn’t owe us anything for the great pleasure and surprises she has always given us. I just hope, again, that all is well.

In the past Teresa has had problems with unwanted attention. I hope that her absence isn’t a reaction to anything like that.

I join everyone else in wishing only the best for Teresa.

Just to be clear, I’m not suggesting that any of you are doing anything wrong by expressing concern and desiring more information. There is no doubt in my mind that you all are totally supportive of Teresa and sincerely want what’s best for her.

To those of you who’ve posted your e-mail addresses in the hope of being invited to her blog, I think you’re misunderstanding the situation: It’s not likely that she’s decided to make Frog Blog into an invite-only affair. Probably what’s going on is that flipping the switch which causes it to show up as invite-only was the quickest way of getting it off the Web without permanently deleting all of its content.

The fact that she chose this route, as opposed to simply deleting the blog, is a hopeful sign. It means the blog could come back at some point, with all its content intact.

Anyway, I would recommend that you delete the posts containing your e-mail addresses, because there are automated scripts which scour the Web for e-mail addresses to add to spam lists.

Or if you don’t want to delete your addresses, at least re-post them so they’re broken up in such a way as to foil the spam spiders.

For example, instead of posting yourname@hotmail.com, you would type it as yourname at hotmail dot com.

I will check every day for your return.

Teresa, I don’t know if you’ll see this. I was never one of the “cool kids”, but I’ve enjoyed your strip and Frog Blog for years. I will miss both terribly. Your blog both educated and entertained. Be well, Teresa. I hope you’ll be back again.

since Teresa loved to post pics of Catherine Deneuve:

Farewell, Teresa. I hope we meet again in cyberspace. (Sigh.) Now I have to go take my Frog Blog fanlink off my own blog. Such a sad business.

We all love you, Teresa. Please know that.

Theresa, will you invite me for your private blog ? I’m a a frog too, don’t forget ! rainette456 @ hotmail.com

Well, hell. What a revolting development! My “bad feeling” has come to pass. Been admiring and enchanted with your talent and creativity ever since meeting you on Wordie, Teresa. Never missed a post, ‘tho sometimes had to backtrack a few days. I fervently hope that you’ll be back anon…or, failing that, you have fair skies and following winds in your life-wending, with fond memories of our friendly sangha here. Namaste.

I’ll point out that Teresa’s possible retirement wasn’t completely unannounced. In the past she’s talked about not being happy with what she was doing. In fact, she took a break at one point because she said she was burned out and lacking ideas. After that period, she came back, so perhaps that time she found her muse. She also mentioned at one point that she was interested in raising goats. So it’s possible she’s decided to make the career change. Good luck Teresa, and I hope to see your work again.

Teresa,

If you decide to re-surface, let me know. All the best.

….heavy sigh….come back, Ms. T…

The “invited readers only” message also appears when a blog has been deleted.

It’s great to see everyone chiming in to say how much they appreciate this strip! But I trust Teresa knows we’d gladly give up FA and FB as long as she is happy and healthy; that’s the top priority.

I miss the doors and pictures of old movie stars I never heard of. I miss the nonsequiter dadaist comic. I miss Teresa.

I had to miss a week; sounds like I missed a lot. Did Teresa actually post a “Vlad is dead” announcement before her blog went dark?

Ms. Burritt, if you’re still reading this, I only ask 2 things: Please let us know if this really is the end of the blog and the comic, and please, please, be well.

Morton, yes, Teresa’s “Vlad is dead” message was to inform us that her Vlad e-mail account had been closed. So anybody writing to that address should not feel ignored. She can’t see any messages you send there.

Teresa, I hope you are well and happy. I, too, am worried, but I, too, recognize that you don’t owe me or anyone an explanation. I have greatly appreciated your kindness and graciousness in the few emails we’ve exchanged, and your unique vision of the world is one that I admire and miss. Blessed be.

One last thing from me…is to say how much I have enjoyed the vast majority of commentors drawn to Teresa’s blog. Assuming I’m able to recognize one as such, there have been some fine minds on board.

Sigh-onara. . .[sic]

sad days… no Vlad, no Frog Blog, my lame meter is gone all limp

Even though I rarely comment, I’ve read FA/FB from the beginning and loved every minute of the lameness!!

Many posts from Teresa gave me new hope, carried me through a bad time, or made me think of something in a new/better way – for that, I will always be grateful to Teresa for sharing her creativity and experiences with us.

Also, because of that, I will always eagerly wait the return – even if it does not materialize.

Altho I miss our daily “doses”, it cannot compare to how much good will, love and care I send in Ms. T’s direction for whatever is and will be. :)

:(

I am keeping Teresa in my thoughts.

I will check back every couple of days to see if you are still missing.Miss you Theresa BurritMay all be well with you.

Like everyone else has already said, only more so…thanks for opening my world. I hope you are well. Please come back!

I miss you sweetie! I thought that we had a good thing going! Why do all women dump me. without a word of explanation?

…. this not knowing is difficult

Whatever you decide, Teresa, thank you for all the fun, thought provocation, and off-the-wall humour. May the spider of courage protect you from the apple-dwelling juice monsters of confusion, and may your pansies flower through the summer snow.

Oh Theresa I truly need your display of lameness.Please don’t give up on us lame commenters.

Sniff. Sob. Snorfle. BWAAAH!!!

allez Theresa, reviens, please !!!!!!

The internet is nothing without you. Jag saknar dig. Jag hoppas att inget hemskt har hänt. Men egentligen har något hemskt hänt, din komiska är borta, du har slutat blogga! Det är två hemska saker redan. Låt oss veta att du är okej! Jag tänkte att du kanske tycker om detta på svenska, eftersom du är något av en lingvist och ordvrängare.

I will try a different approach.Teresa, get your ass back here and get to work or there will be no after cartoon activities this weekend until you clean out your bedroom and learn to be more responsible on the Internet.

Personally, I am hoping for irresponsible Internet activity.

SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I am back Miss Burritt. Where are you ? Please acknowledge.

So this is the new Pibgorn, and you’re all upset that Teresa, just like Brooke, has just taken her ball and gone home. Unlike Brooke, who just wanted to hear about the degree of his supposed “genius”, Teresa probably had an epiphany about postmodern art.

At least you still have Big Top.

teresa i’ve been reading your blog for a couple years now and now google denies me . cats4rent@sbcglobal.net please help me

I must say that this is the lamest flash mob I have ever seen, what with everybody just milling about and muttering in confused or angry puzzlement. Well done!

We are the LAME ones and proud of it.

Having read FA and FB for several years I miss it. It was always a smart and challenging strip. I hope it returns. I think I’ll miss her FB most. She showed great taste

“…If we cannot care about one another, even from afar, what is the value of our existence on this green planet?///”

My sentiments exactly. I have not been here at FA much of late (in case anyone has noticed), but I would check on FB from time to time.

Now all of that is gone.

Here is wishing health & helaing to Teresa in whatever state she may be. I will be thinking and praying for her in the days to come….

Teresa, If you’re reading this: I’m late chiming in here. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your wonderful, fun, thoughtful strip and blog. I miss your presence and send all my well wishes!

Vlad is dead. Long live Vlad!

Thank you, Old Wolf…. they are most wonderful, all of you people who frequent this exquisite lame place in the name of Holy Theresa and Vlad … I’ll keep visiting just to read the posts!

Much as we would like to believe otherwise, it would seem Teresa has left the building. May she live a long, blessed, and fulfilling life. My sincere thanks to her for all she has done to expand my horizons- and verticals as well. Gloria Monday useth Sikh transit.

After two weeks without a computer, I am back, only to find myself three weeks without Teresa, and not the slightest idea why. Is “74 days” a truth-saying? Is she battling illness, depression. burnout, stalker, law courts, or other adversity?Her page on that social networking site is shut down, too. We can only wonder, pray, hope for her return….

Bollocks!

25 days is a long time without frog blog

I can’t seem to upload the picture (I guess I’m just lame), but here is a photo of a wasp that I didn’t know existed until I saw it on Frog Blog. (Like so many other world-expanding posts from Teresa.)

http://www.wild-facts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Eucharitid-Wasp.jpg

Theresa, come back. That’s enough. Life is boring without your blogue. I said. It’s an order.

Thanks, beviek!

Thank you to everyone else here for cushioning the blow of Teresa’s move to new and, hopefully, green pastures.

@coltish1 as JohnnyDiego said, 12 days agoOn Sunday March 24 in Frog Applause Ms. T sez she has accumulated 74 days of sick leave. Then she sez, “La peste bubonique.”Bubonic Plague!Is this significant?If so the incubation period before symptoms of Bubonic plague occur is usually 7 – 10 days. Treatment and recovery can take up to 2 months.As I see it 74 days from March 24 is somewhere around June 4, assuming that Ms. T will take the whole of her accumulated sick leave. If she has a full recovery from the plague I should expect to see her back well before that, however.Oh. As an aside, Bubonic plague is fatal in approximately 50-60% of infected persons.hope that clears everything up.wilbur garrod

Dear Cousin Teresa,

You can come home now! All is forgiven, and the neighbors in the next trailer have agreed not to sue as long as you give them the next goat.

I see we’re all still here….and all still lame. Huzzah!

Lovin’ this hazy, crazy, lazy days o’ lame…

Never hurts to sample the lameness, whileWaiting for Teresa (it’s an existential thing, you know)….

Will this ever be updated again?

We miss you Mz T! See, your lame community is still here and waiting for your return. We hope you will show up, unlike Godot!

sigh…

Missing you, “Frog Applause” …

Happy Birthday, Teresa, wherever you are!

Is it really Teresa’s birthday? HAPPY BIRTHDAY TERESA!!!!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday! You have many, many people with best wishes for you.

Many Happy Returns, Teresa!

Happy birthday teresa

Happy Birthday, Teresa! (Cinco de Mayo—you picked a good day to be born!)

Happy birthday, Teresa!

happy EVERY day Teresa

we miss you, ‘cause we’re lame

The lack of Teresa is really buggin’ me. She has always been so nice to us readers, and so supportive of other creative people. I hope and pray that all is well in her world. Of if all is not well, I sincerely hope that she is getting through it with strength and style.

One month anniversary of the end of Lame as we knew it..Just decided to check and was pleasantly surprised to see all the stuff posted..Hoping for the best for all!

belated birthday wishes to Teresa.Just passing through the comments and saw it was Teresa’sspecial day.

In order to treat you as I do some of the most honored members of my family, Teresa: Happy Birthday! (one day late)… Missing your humor, your artistry, and your light.

OMG! I missed it yesterday. Belated happy birthday, Teresa, wherever you are….

I’ll still check every day until more is known as to the fate of Frog Applause. Haven’t forgotten.

I share the belief that sooner or later, the comments on this page will be so numerous that it will be difficult to load this page. Though Beviek’s idea of regrouping at the 12/20/2006 installment is workable, we would soon encounter the same problem, and as we moved from one day to the next, the conversation would be hard to keep track of.

I wonder if a more elegant solution might be for one of us to set up a Frog Blog tribute message board? Surely somebody around here knows their way around phpBB and could set up a forum for us. If a few of us chipped in to cover hosting costs, it would be readily doable.

phpBB is bulletin board software, by the way:

https://www.phpbb.com/

Loading is already cumbersome, and I miss Teresa’s subtle guidance and whimsical humor. I have no magical answer to our dilemma here, I can only offer these words of consolation and support:

one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick andthey won’t take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them.And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking insingin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s anorganization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I saidfifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant andwalking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.

a. guthrie

Teresa, I miss you!

Sob!

Flight Suit and beviek et al,My domain has pretty much unlimited resources and scripts to automatically install phpBB or a similar forum called SMF. I’d be happy to set up a place.

I’m in for a crowd-sourced FA until Teresa can be found.Can’t help technically, but will support in other ways.

Happy late birthday (5-5?) Teresa. I see your comments column has become a bulletin board. Miss ya.

a word of thanks to one and all who continue to post while we await news, and the return, of Miss T…you give me hope

Excellent! Did I understand you to say this won’t cost you anything extra at all? ‘Cause if doing this does cost you money, I’m definitely willing to chip in a little to help with hosting costs.

I’m sure we have some members here who’ve never posted on a phpBB style message board, so we’ll have to be helpful toward those who aren’t totally tech savvy.

Once they get the hang of it, however, I’m sure they’ll love how easy it is to embed images in posts, use bold text, etc…

@APersonOfInterestRe: “What does phpBB stand for?”“Google Is Your Friend!”(Basically, it’s a type of Internet bulletin board.)

Posting pictures is good news. Many of us were drawn to the blog for Teresa’s discerning taste in images and, while I may not be as good at it… I may have some that would be of interest to others.

@pepelaputrRefresh button has been replaced with option to list 15 more posts or, alternately, the whole shebang. Edit: I see there’s also a “refresh comments” button at the end of the list (just above the “comment on this strip” box. I don’t understand what its function is, ’tho.

@PepelaputrVery Teresa-worthy!

To APersonOfInterest, Androgenoide, and Beviek, I say don’t worry! phpBB is just the brand name of the most widely used Web forum/message board platform out there. As LaffinLarry said, if you can post here, you can just as easily post on a bulletin board of that type.

The only difference is that, when you’re ready for it, you’ll find all kinds of neat tools at your disposal for doing things like embedding photos in your posts or making your text bold or italic, or having giant sized fonts of various colors, or whatever.

But you don’t have to use any of those features unless or until you’re comfortable doing so.

beviek, if you’re already savvy enough to figure out how to use HTML code to put an image into a post on this site, then you’ll have no problem with the type of bulletin board we’re talking about.

In fact, phpBB uses a variation on HTML called BBscript, which lets you use a lot of HTML commands you’re already familiar with, only you put them inside brackets [ ] instead of, um, whatever those pointy things are called that you put HTML commands inside of. <>

But the beauty of it is that you don’t have to type the BBscript commands if you don’t want to. If you want to embed a picture, there’s a little “picture” button you can click on which automatically generates the appropriate commands for you. Really neat stuff.

I was so excited when Theresa used one of my captions for the strip!

Looking back at the whole history of FA … it was wonderful!

teresa please invite me tp your blog-cats4rent@sbcglobal.net

If you need any help, I have run phpBB forums also and know how to troubleshoot pretty decently. It’s probably a good idea to have such a forum because I am not sure how long the commenting section will remain here or FA itself, I was kinda hoping Teresa would be back by now.

Ok, everyone, it exists.Go to http://lafinlarry.net/faas/index.php. I installed it and changed precious few things from the default settings. I started one forum where we can talk about how we want to organize the place. So go and register and let’s get going.And yes, I’ll want some administration help. I was very familiar with 2,x version of the thing, not so much with 3.0.I was thinking of asking Flight Suit because he sounds familiar with this. You’ll probably be in there too, Hugh B..

beviek, if you join LaffinLarry’s new message board, I’m sure that e-mail notification of replies to posts will be part of the mix!

LaffinLarry, I know nothing about the technical side of phpBB, but if you’re thinking of making me a moderator, I’d be happy to help, and I would treat that as a sacred trust.

In other words, I believe a moderator must be fair and impartial.

While I applaud the sentiment behind the creation of a “tribute” site, it will not and can never possibly be “Teresa’s”. Style may be copied and content may be similar, but the “lame” will not be the same. I will just wait patiently and pray that she returns.

No way that we’re pushing (or even approaching) a limit, here.The record for number of comments is something like 2000 or so. Somebody did it deliberately; give me a while and maybe I’ll remember where it was.

In an effort to make this place a bit more wieldy, I just went through and deleted some of my posts. Didn’t make a big difference because there weren’t that many. But if everyone would remove some of their older comments that no longer need to be here…

^Also.

If you want to preserve the lame, then why did you delete your posts, thus decreasing the lameness?

I once observed a blue jay turning a wasp nest into a happy meal. It had to pluck a few wasps from the air and bisect them by beak a few times before it could detach its takeout order of larva in a paper cup and go enjoy it in peace, of course.

Standing by, waiting for T to return, if even to say farewell.

I had stalker(s) once. Never found out who, or what happened to them. Can’t claim to care. They are expensive, what with having to buy new tires, belts and hoses and the like. Never got a crucifix put in my trail mix, though. Got a magic marker in my laundry once. Hardly the same thing.

(…sigh…)

I wonder if Comics Sherpa or any of the other blogs or commentators will eventually notice T’s disappearance and our unprecedented efforts to keep the flame burning in her absence?

My synapses need retuning. Pass me the toad-wrench.

If there is nothing here, what are you reading now?

I refuse to be bound by the laws of mathematics!

My bedroom is haunted by dead handkerchiefs.

Help! I’ve forgotten how to spell SOS!

The State of Grace has declared itself a sovereign nation and ceded from the union. This means war.

What I do with sponge cakes is strictly between my goose and I.

Please, do not speak to my panda as he is recovering from a strawberry jelly addiction.

No, I WILL NOT sparkle.

Can’t you see I am playing my Air Swanee Whistle?

My white socks have not yet been delivered. I will console myself with pastry.

What you see as a plate of cream dessert, I see as a ground-to-ground missile.

Please pass me a fresh dingo.

sigh*sigh*double-sigh*

here, here….I second that

Teresa PLEASE take pity on us…please come back, please…(whimper), please, oh please

Waiting for Teresa, perhaps?

I’ve done a little public speculating about the possible reasons for T’s disappearance, and I, for one, am going to try not to do much more of it.

The way I see it, any speculating we do in public could have unforeseen and unintended consequences.

The safest, least potentially destructive thing, therefore, is to not speculate.

Hah!

We need T back, barring that Frog Applause Redux.

Just a suggestion here…. 12.20.2006 is the first Frog Applause to appear here on go comics. There are few if any comments. Y’all could have your daily lamefest by starting from the beginning and reliving the glory days of Grace and Co. No blog, of course, but plenty of strips in the archive to keep things going for a few years, if need be, and a ready made forum for all.

4 June is not all that far away.

6turtle9, a lot of us are regrouping here:

http://lafinlarry.net/faas/index.php?sid=b2dd390ae33e762970bdf0e874e488b5

How many Ahs are there in cat?

You may come in now, Mrs Frenchhorn, your bicycle eclair is ready.

I sleep, therefore I am.

I denounce your coathanger, Mr Periwinkle

Please touch my tulip, but be gentle.

I like a person who counts in alphabetical order

Waiter, there’s a clown in my soup.

You have read this one already

My lilacs are gunning down random passers-by.

Brother Carrot and Sister Cabbage have eloped

It is forbidden to dance on the mosquito net

Beware of the Kamikaze Penguin

Take away the sponge, custard and jello. I will not be trifled with

The weasels object, Mr President

I miss you FROG APPLAUSE. Hope you are OK.

I still check, everyday. Just in case… ya know?

Where there is life, there is Hope, and probably Crosby, on a long and winding road.

Don’t forget Stills, Nash and Young…

Please, do not take away my dotted lines

I keep a tax man in my kitchen cupboard for emergencies

Please stop when you see the turnip

Mr Costigan, I do not find your artichoke amusing

I decided to be daring and wear striped socks with a polka dot tie.

My Teflon tulip has been tarnished

Up I get mixed my words

Put that away, Mrs Watson. I already have one.

Do not put your toad on the fan heater

I am roasting metaphors today

Please remove your ferret before entering the swimming pool

I’m sorry, Mr Sponne, your irony license has expired

You cannot catch lions with flypaper

Kiss me, Mrs Velociraptor

You cannot get there from here

52 days since we have seen Teresa. Supplies running low. Compass still spinning. The fog continues to thicken. I begin to believe the old Gypsy woman’s admonition that this expedition was ill advised.

No looking at Frog spawnography

Are you ever going to update again?

I’ll leave you with this little nugget of wisdom …-“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance” – Will Durant

I was having a spirited discussion with myself, which was fine until I touched on a sensitive topic and ended up punching myself in the face. To make matters worse, I then took pictures of myself and posted them on Twitter. I didn’t even know I had a Twitter account!

At 500 coms, will you come back Theresa ? I miss your pics. Open your blog for a while, we will look at them for the last time. Pleeeeeeeaaaaase !

15 hours and no new comment. Can’t have that.

1% of success is inspiration. 90% of success is showing up. The other 9% is tax, which explains why 99% is perspiration. I would explain it further, but I left my Venn diagrams in the umbrella stand.

Spinning, spinning, spinning…. Here we go, into June. I keep my fingers crossed for the magical date 4 June, in hopes that it is magical. Besides, my fingers are cramping.

Not viscous at all – it’s rather thin, to my ears.

Please pass me my Salmon Fillet underwear.

Place your strawberries on the ground and walk away.

Where did you get that marmot from?

I am an undercover hamster detective

The time is three minutes to humus.

Ever feel like one of those dogs that won’t leave a grave? Sigh…

Greyfriar’s Bobby, that’s me.

74 days from March 24 is June 6, I think; and 74 days from this April 6 post would be June 19……Patience….

I echo the sentiments of many here. Although I have not commented before, I have enjoyed FA and FB for quite a while. Hope all is well with you Theresa, hope you’ll be back soon.

: } : } , a double-dose of agreement

life on the Net is very boring without you. Come back, please !

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5 June.?Sigh.

Wow, Pepelaputr! Helen of the Internet, my favorite online comic back at the end of the ’90s, and Blackhawk, my favorite comic book back in the ’50s! Nostalgia-pangs! Now, if only the Queen of Lame will return to us this month….

Shouldn’t there be a top 40 song about Teresa by now? Music today is so lame. Nobody cares about the music.

Just found out that the Hula frog, thought to be extinct, is actually still among us. That will have to do for today.

I wonder if Teresa’s just waiting for us lame-os to simmer down… I, for one am engaging in a staring contest with FA and FB… henceforth withholding speech, and not blinking… We’ll see who cracks first!

i check every day in case….i would like to have news from you Theresa. Are you ok ? Life is good for you ? Give us a word please, 500 coms after your last world…..

I had not meant for calling Deutsche Bank of you. Autocorrect was I using. My apologies.

Well there is the thing about Frog Applause. It points out a bit of the weirdness and lameness of everyday life which, once seen, cannot be unseen. In short, I do not enjoy maple smoked bacon grease on my pancakes. Though it does photograph well, it is not as sweet as maple syrup. You would think it would be. It has maple flavor.

In your heart, you know she’s watching….

One one-thousand, two one-thousand…still hanging in there…five one-thousand, six one-thousand…top o’ the morning to you, Teresa. ’Mon back, you hear?

7 one thousand- 8 one thousand- 9 one thousand- 10 one thousand… one more “top o’ the morning” to you Teresa.Hope to hear from you anytime now.

I’ll throw my voice in with the chorus to give you my support. Please take care of yourself, whether coming back or not.

This Cornish Pasty is made with Traditional Exploding Pastry

I like to dress as a dog and jump out at people in the park

I give my mango to no-one. Do you hear?

I have a prize-winning spackle.

Come, sit beside me, and share my turquoise

Teresa! You have had more than enough time off. Your devoted fans and readers are doing their part. Please at least tell us if you are retiring, quiting, on hiatus, hospitalized, dead, in space, or any of the other lame excuses for allowing us to stare at a blank space for two months. I hope things are well with you and wish you the best. I will check in later.

Only one Sun is our god. All others are false gods. Their light is feeble and does not warm. But there sure are a lot of them.

^I approve!

Teresa’s poor turtles, I hope she’s made arrangements for someone to feed them while she’s off and about

does it make me a terrible person that I laughed at this….oh, indeed, I’m a sick, sick woman

and…YUMMM, thanks lafinlarry, via Pepelaputr

I miss my FA.

I am creating an army of Ninja Squirrels.Their physical conditioning is excellent.But their discipline is terrible.I think the albino is turning them against me.

No.I just wanted to post something on FA and it was something I thought Teresa might put on her blog.

Here’s why we need Teresa back: for growth out of our dopamine loops and filter bubbles.

http://davidrainoshek.com/2013/06/how-facebook-fb-is-altering-your-mind-2/

Cardboard chair.

The green on my tomato is too fast

Please direct me to the nearest petunia. I wish to pay my respects.

I always tie my spaghetti in knots. It helps the memory, you know.

Underlining sentences is a sign of being possessed by cockroaches.

Come, gentle soul, rest your head, ’neath my guillotine blade.

The squirrels are conspiring against you.

Laminated Corrugated Fiberboard Chair.

Dear Aunt Teresa,

It’s been a couple of months since we received a check. The nice people from the NSA drop by every couple of weeks and ask about you. We still don’t know where you are, right? Let us know when you’re coming back so we can fumigate the trailer. Mom says to say, “Hi!”

After multiple entries of address and zip code (and knowing that they track these things), can anyone tell me why Google still thinks I speak Spanish and live in North Jersey?

75 days! Cooeee! Where are you Teresa?

Froggy went a-courtin’, he did go, uh-huh….

Let’s have a parsnip party

Mrs Whitaker-Pamplemousse-Jones, your Camden is ready

If there is a time for everything, then there is a time for filling your pockets with rice pudding.

Wake up, Trevor, the prunes are here

I think our goal now is 1,000 comments. GoComics leaves many comics online that have not updated for some time.

COMMENT ON, FROG BLOGGERS!

…and visit the lafinlarry site, too.

Lame is the Name of the Game. Play on!

My armadillo needs fresh batteries

There is nothing quite like a slurry sandwich

Please, Ida, come down from the ceiling. The paint isn’t dry.

Never vote for an octopus on a Thursday

He was never the same since the unfortunate crayon incident

At picnics I get insect bites above my shoes. I have always had trouble with ants and ankles.

Halfway through the second game of volleyball, the picnic became a wake. Coincidentally, that is also when it became more fun, though some kill-joys kept insisting that authorities needed to be contacted and arrangements made. As a compromise, we sent somebody for a second keg.

Ooooooooooooh, you make me want to roll my windows down.

If I could save time in a bottle # JJJJJJJJJJJ#

Take off your gloves, Mr Spendlove, I’m going to measure you for oranges

Is this the right ship for Timbuctu?

I am an authority on chocolate sprinkles

My right leg says it is time to get up, but my left leg says there is still an hour to go.

Do NOT open the ostrich

This damp patch will always remind me of you

Due to a clerical error, Thursday will be replacing Wednesday in this week’s lineup. Wednesday will then replace Thursday, after it has been dragged, kicking and screaming, back to reality. We regret any inconvenience this may cause.

I gave up on this a while ago, but I’m glad to see that the fans are banding together to keep the lameness going.

The problem with naming the days of the week in alphabetical order is that Saturday so so far away from Friday

Please do not put picnic baskets on trampolines as it confuses the ants

Stop it! My tulips are blooming!

Don’t say hello to me in that tone of voice

I have a terrible ache in my lettuce

Shrewsbury is NEVER an option

I haven’t seen my Aunt Robert since she was my Uncle Felicity

No, Mrs Heliotrope, that is not a bowl of spaghetti, it is a small dog.

Please do not leave your waxy residue over my prize-winning bakeware

When I phoned them, they said they would come around in an hour. That was thirty five years ago. Do you think they are on the way?

A = You aren’t alone.B = I would like to be.

Before you know it, June 2013 will be history.Teresa, your position and your acolytes await you, and we hope you are well; don’t just run out the clock on your GoComics contract….

I have no idea what is going on. It is quite exciting.

This strip should go…. Only invited guest, so!!!

I will give you fluffy yellow chicks for Easter, and grilled chicken on Independence Day. Salt it with your tears.

Frog haiku:

Comments wanderingStill waiting for TeresaKeep the candle lit

Yep. Still waiting and watching.

Is today’s Pearls 2 days late or 4 days early for Fishnet Friday?

It’s too late to say you’re sorry. She’s not there.

TERESA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Five toes, one big. An ankle. An arch. Something is afoot.

How can I count without my potatoes?