Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 21, 2024

I feel henpecked.

A mug of chicken soup shot?

I can live with that. Because I don’t care. Because I’m terrible.

You made me put on my glasses to read this.

Take off the glasses. Then you won’t see it and we can be friends again.

“I hear you like to watch ‘Fox News’!”

I don’t listen to a dumb cluck.

You mean terrific, right? Even the “inspiring terror” definition. I’d rather be considered frightful instead of awful.

Although… one of the meanings of awful is “very great”. Language for precise communication? Yeah, right.

This applies to so many public figures today.

With so many terrible people around these days, a good person has to beak careful all the time.

You know the saying! Takes one to know one!!

But I run a tight barbecue grill. Should you wish to inspect it, I will allow it.

You’re not the type I would want to be liked by. I’ll likely dispatch, feather, fry, and serve you to the bleery-eyed, beer-breathed, wandering faithful down by the stadium.

I know I am, but what are you? na na

The three panels make me think she’s already on the rotisserie. And quite measured in her response, I’d say.

Any chicken that doesn’t know broccoli soup from a hole in its head the size of a bread basket can’t intimidate me.

I eat a lot of chicken, so I understand her point of view.

Gasp! Love the spectacles Hon!

And right back atcha!

Some are just naturally clucking idiots!

Ya can’t make this stuff up…

Trust me henny, Hate is an overrated pastime. Disdain requires less expenditure of energy.

chickens have way advanced

What the chicken repeated while trying on glasses.

I feel attacked, but the chicken is so fabulous with those glasses that I also feel flattered to be talked to..?

Weird. Everyone keeps saying that! But you know you have a problem when a chicken with glasses says it.

Reminds me of what my mother sometimes used to say to me: “I love you, but I don’t like you right now” …!

Why did the chicken cross her eyes?

But persons can eat you.