Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 21, 2011

  1. Bren suit
    FLIGHT SUIT  about 14 years ago

    Whoa, she created a Dick Tracy villain!

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    FLIGHT SUIT  about 14 years ago

    http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/2011/01/onomatopoetic-f-words.html

    This list is incomplete without:

    FLOOOM - The sound an explosive violin makes when Dick Tracy throws it in a pool and it detonates under water.

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    FLIGHT SUIT  about 14 years ago

    In a similar vein, it should be noted that Godzillaā€™s distinctive roar has been spelled in comic books as ā€œkreeeeeonk!ā€

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    J.BenjaminDalton  about 14 years ago

    Blankety blank!

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    judyparka  about 14 years ago

    I take todayā€™s strip to mean: after all of her editing and erasing, there is nothing left of what she originally wrote and drew (blank)

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    grapfhics  about 14 years ago

    That pea problem is no petty matter.

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    j2p2  about 14 years ago

    So has she reached enlightenment?

    Or is it writerā€™s block?

    I often find the difference hard to distinguish.

    Canā€™t help noticing sheā€™s a lefty. You know weā€™re the only ones in our right mindsā€¦

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    coltish1  about 14 years ago

    J2P2 - Amen, my fellow lefty! Or as my Mom, who was born in Brooklyn, would say, southpore.

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    Rotifer FREE BEER & BATH MATS ON FEB. 31st Thalweg Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Art imitates life?

    Self-portrait?

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    plight  about 14 years ago

    What the blank are you doing?

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    ransomknotts  about 14 years ago

    Since Teresaā€™s gender (is she really a man?) has come into play in recent days, todayā€™s strip makes me wonder if Teresa is shooting blanks.

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    cleokaya  about 14 years ago

    I was all gaga over the girl in white in the 1912 photo until I took in Tina Louise and then suddenly I wanted to put myself in her hands.

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    Eagleskies Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Re: ā€œstaring contestā€

    ā€œHi birdie, are you from around here?ā€

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    Dorian  about 14 years ago

    Iā€™m viewing todayā€™s strip as an important message about self-censorship. If you worry too much about the effort, you wonā€™t have anything at all.

    Except for the erasing part, I feel like these panels could be snapshots of me when I was younger. :) Thanks, Teresa!

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    margueritem  about 14 years ago

    Dear Mother Thalweg,

    I wish him much luck in his new venture. I canā€™t bear to think of those poor girls just sitting around, unable to marry, because of their unfortunate condition.

    Sincerely,

    Marg. Employment Counseler at Large

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    The Old Wolf  about 14 years ago

    No collection of obscene sound effects is complete without reference to Don Martin.

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    jjkalt23  about 14 years ago

    Old Wolf, Thanx for the link! Nice tribute with your avatar as well!

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    Ushindi  about 14 years ago

    I lost the staring contest three times - I quit!

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    Teresa Burritt (Frog Applause) creator about 14 years ago

    Frog Applause will return on Sunday, January 23 or Monday, January 24. Frog Blog will continue to update without interruption.

    ~Teresa

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    Oxnate  about 14 years ago

    Young Drummer is amazing!

    I canā€™t imagine what heā€™ll be like in 10 years.

    Kid will be touring before he reaches 15.

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    Eagleskies Premium Member about 14 years ago

    I agree, Old Wolf. Never so happy to pick up the complete works of Don Martin in two volumes; what a trove of zaniness in drawing and memorable sound effects.

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    SumoSasquatch (aka a boy named Su)  about 14 years ago

    Nice blog today.

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    Coyoty Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Are those samurai pizza cats?

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    Rotifer FREE BEER & BATH MATS ON FEB. 31st Thalweg Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Dear Marg

    I am back from Guam. The job didnā€™t work out. I was overqualified.

    Rotifer

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    MisngNOLA  about 14 years ago

    Roitfer, are you going to torture me with tales of the food you had on Guam (heh heh)?

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    The Old Wolf  about 14 years ago

    Saw that Don Martin collection the other dayā€¦ almost picked it up. I donā€™t think itā€™s complete, but it is very representative.

    Iā€™m sorta waiting for a complete Dave Berg collection, myself.

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    margueritem  about 14 years ago

    Dear Rotifer,

    Iā€™m sorry to read that. Your Mother must be so disappointed. She was hoping youā€™d find steady employment. I do know several others who left for Guam at the same time that you did, perhaps their qualifications might be better suited to the task. Iā€™ll have to look around for something more in tune with your special qualifications.

    Margueritem Employment Counselor at Large

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    Oxnate  about 14 years ago

    Took me a day to get it, but I finally put this strip together with Teresaā€™s comment.

    sad chuckle

    A comic about writerā€™s block, and then not being able to publish a comic for a couple of days. Ha!

    Still unsure whether it was meant to be funny or whether she really has writers block. Perhaps sheā€™ll start posting sooner now that some one ā€œgot itā€?

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    LocoOwl  about 14 years ago

    I miss my FA!!!! Must have itā€¦.. pant,ā€¦.,pantā€¦., pantā€¦.. GAAAAK!, UFARBBT!

    Having withdrawal symptoms!!!!

    Help!

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    The Old Wolf  about 14 years ago

    I have a problem with that Chinese sign - itā€™s photoshopped. The giveaway is that the Chinese is mirrored, but the ā€œEnglishā€ is correct.

    It should read:

    åøęœŗę³ØꄏčÆ·äøč¦ę‰”ēŖ—外危险ē‰©å“. č°¢č°¢.

    sÄ«jÄ« zhĆ¹yƬ qĒng bĆ¹ yĆ o rēng chuāng wĆ i wēixiĒŽn wĆ¹pĒn xiĆØ xiĆØ

    Literally:

    driver listen - please not want throw window out dangerous article thank thank

    Or:

    Note to drivers: Please do not throw dangerous objects out the window. Thank you.

    Now, itā€™s entirely possible for a bad translation like that to take place - but the character for ā€œanusā€ is 肛 or 肛門 - gāng or gāngmĆ©n - and ē‰©å“ (goods, articles, material or commodity) doesnā€™t come close in any dictionary Iā€™m familiar with.

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    Eagleskies Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Very interesting, Old Wolf. My guess would be that ā€œthank thankā€ = ā€œthanksā€?

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    Oxnate  about 14 years ago

    I Love tennis. Have I ever told you how much I love tennis?

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    Eagleskies Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Love, thirty!

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    ottowilches  about 14 years ago

    I canā€™t find Vladā€™s e-amil/Iā€™m scared of him so

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    ottowilches  about 14 years ago

    http://vocaroo.com/?media=vHq3UYQYLr7fP9lBe

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    Rotifer FREE BEER & BATH MATS ON FEB. 31st Thalweg Premium Member about 14 years ago

    http://vocaroo.com/?media=vvM9uxy6KueTyZtLx&recipient=bigwavedave@mail.com

    June 13, 2010

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    FLIGHT SUIT  about 14 years ago

    I thought Vocaroo would involve voice recordings being combined with pictures.

    You all want to impress me? Figure out how to use Slideshare.net and make Teresaā€™s comics into slide presentations with voice-overs.

    It can be done.

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    grapfhics  about 14 years ago

    Oxnate, thatā€™s because even if we canā€™t score we still have love.

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    JackParsons  about 14 years ago

    ā€œHey Yank, You Got Guam?ā€ - National Lampoon

    From the Hobo Book- Gunsel- a boy who is the victim of assodomy (nice)

    In the Maltese Falcon, Elisha Cook Jr. (who was very short) plays a tough guy with a gun following Bogart. Upon meeting Sidney Greenstreet, Bogey refers to Cook as a ā€˜gunselā€™. To hobos and criminals, an in-joke. To the rest of us is just sounds like slang for guy with a gun.

    Dashiell Hammett wrote that joke; the movie was filmed verbatim from his novel.

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    LocoOwl  about 14 years ago

    I dunno, Radish. I donā€™t think the bubble girl looks as demented as Danae.

    But you could be right.

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