Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 26, 2019

There are so many buttons but we all push our luck.

I like to push other people’s buttons. Those are the best ones to push.

Did that button turn red because he’s red and he made it red? Another FA mystery never to be answered.

Those buttons wouldn’t be there if they didn’t need pushing.

If they didn’t want me to push it, then they shouldn’t have made it a Big Red Button!

sorry Teresa, but we sherpa cartoonists aren’t allowed on the main page anymore and I have to shamelessly plug our stuff.

From the WILDLY popular sherpa comic strip CLEO and COMPANY, a very short animation of the consequences of pushing buttons

https://i.postimg.cc/B6wLNWtx/Cleveland-Jurassic-Park-O-Test8.gif

and yet another:

https://i.postimg.cc/tJByQ6LP/Cleveland-Do-Not-Touch-O-Test2-6-57-27-AM.gif

You’re pushing our buttons again, Teresa.

WET PAINT

Many years ago (oh so many) my family, which included me, moved into a house that was even at that time 70 years old. It had electrical fixtures because it had been built to a lumber baron’s specifications (true story). The switches controlling these currents had a sort of double action: two fairly narrow buttons extended from the wall outlet, one above the other, and when you pushed one in, the other one would pop out. The upper one which closed the circuit (turned the fixture “on”) had a mother of pearl inlay, brightening its color, and indicating that the light was then in the “on” condition. I know, walking down memory lame.

To quote the eminent social scientist Waldo Higglepooder: “We are one Great Nation of Button Pushers, but some still prefer Peddle Pushers!"

And we teach our distant relatives to push buttons to get a handful of monkey chow.

AND THEN … AND THEN … we push the button AGAIN if nothing happens the first time …!

You push the button, and we’ll do the rest…

tempting to push the button, isn’t it – pull yourself together

The one that I saw it was to get rid of those types that do such things. It turns them into carbon dust.

What is the reason for a button’s existence, if not to be pushed?

I can be very philosophical about button-pushing. Therefore, if we push a “wrong” button, is that not the hamartia of the one who placed said button in a position to be pushed?

P.S. For any too lazy to look, here is a link to the Wikipedia page for hamartia: http://tinyurl.com/p564gaq

Teresa knows how to push your buttons.

Don’t push it!! It will turn Frog Applause into Ripley’s Believe it or Not!