Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for October 29, 2008

I always felt that way about Barbie. Her clothes were always much better then mine.

Dog, you’re so cute, I’d adopt you in a heartbeat.

And confusing you to the extent that you’re drawing panels out of order.

That dog isn’t a new character. He always tells his story in a 1-3-2 sequence.

i thought of Barbie too

Bad dog! Bad dog!

The stress is great, but Dog is handling things pretty much the way I would. It’s good that the panels are numbered, though. Numbers are our friends in times of stress.

A gender specific dog doll wearing Wayfarers.How appropriate.

this is a classic. It is silly for a dog to have self-steem issues from a doll but it makes perfect sense for a child, lacking mature bowel control and any sense of self-awareness, to be affected similarly. 1) this frontal lobe development is not all it’s crakced up to be and 2) I thought children played with toys and toys did not control the children.

Ryan Roberts: This might help you with today’s strip: http://tinyurl.com/bb954

A great link, Flyingflowerpot! Coleridge would surely be the one to coin that phrase, what with his Ancient Mariner and “In Xanadu did Kulba Khan a stately pleasure dome decree/where Alph the sacred river ran through caverns measureless to man/down to a sunless sea.” That stanza captivated me as a teenager. My disbelief has been suspended ever since, even after having gained mature bowel control. I read that STK composed Kubla Khan after an opium dream. I believe that, too!

I’m quite even-handed. I detest all dogs equally.

I still lack mature bowel control while playing with my Barbie dolls.

wickedcrazy–The dog wearing sunglasses isn’t the doggie doll. He’s the dog that RECEIVED a gender specific (etc) doggie doll.

plight: why do you hate dogs?

You know, I hope that gender-specific doggie doll was the RIGHT gender. Don’t want the poor thing to have gender confusion. Did that dog even mention being a ‘she’ or a ‘he’?

To me, “highly muscled” meant male.

olivefoote:DUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH!Excuuuuussse me.

wickedcrazy: sorry if I came across as a know-it-all jerk. I was just trying to be helpful.

Use the doll as a chew toy. It won’t be a threat to you after you chew it up.

I have lots of reasons for dog-detestment. I’m usually the guy in those MAN BITES DOG headlines.

Dogs don’t recognize number sequence. I love the font Teresa used for th numbers, because they are so classically “fig.1”-looking.

You esteem, I esteem, we all esteem for dogs!