Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for October 23, 2021

Anything to pick up chicks, by Jimminy!

I got suspended from middle school for stridulating against JoHelen Fifer. It wasn’t considered sexual harassment back then, just perverted, I guess. Good times. (Sorry, still inconsiderate to admit. I’m a pig. I’ve always been a pig.)

Why does that hopper of grass feel inclined to tell that public accountant about his stridulating proclivities?

Sir! It’s upright and caffeinated! We’re too late! It is UNSTOPPABLE!!

♫ Stridulation … ♪ can be fun … ♬

If this is your idea of a romance, you’re so wrong! So leave me alone before I bite your head off! And keep the shrill down to a low roar…I don’t want you waking up the whole family.

…in my humble opinion…

…it is the opposite of frogs applauding…

…but I admit…

…I admire its gumption…

…you still have much to learn,Grasshopper…

…and neither wearing a mask…

…somehow, I think that Vulcans look much different on TV…

…Mick Jagger after the operation…

…they never should have allowed the illegal aliens in in the first place…

… I wish DC comics would just leave Superman alone…

I turn the speakers up to 11 when I’m stridulating.

From the Speed Dating Hall of Fame Series, No. 188.

The version of this panel that is sent out in the emails is mangled.

https://assets.amuniversal.com/b0de77d015da013a80c4005056a9545d

Finds a praying mantis with head missing, “Oh, someone got lucky!”

Nothing like stridulation on a summer evening.

Cicadas make their sound by expanding and contracting a membrane called a tymbal …

give me stridulation any old day …!

Pretty testy for the bug.

Don’t know about him, but I’m certainly not going to argue with a giant talking katydid, whether it’s about stridulation or anything else.

Ain’t no one here stopping you, big gal! Rub a-rub rub, noise noise noise all you like.

—Until The Exterminator comes for you. (Those guys in suits ain’t as helpless as they look.)

disturbing

Katy didn’t do too badly

They are really eye-to-eye.