Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for June 30, 2011

Oh, I like that! Tell me another story, Daddy!

Wait til the kid asks where babies come from. He’ll get a treatise on Junction Grammar…

But then they start aquiring adjectives. It starts with “Cute” and goes on from there.18 years later…

@Gaijinrabbit and othersWhile The Unofficial GoComics Style Guide still has a lot of great tips, it appears the GoComics has deprecated much of the Markdown language in deference to HTML. So may I introduce to you Sgt Peppers …

A Quick How ToThe above heading is Heading Style 3, that is < h3 >A Quick How To< /h3 > (no spaces within the <>). Other heading style ( i.e. 1 – 6) can be used. For instance style 5 results in Red text. Heading Style 5

Bold Face Bracket text with a single asterisk

Italics Bracket text with an underscore

Underscore asterisk Bold Italic asterisk underscore

Strike through Bracket text with a single hyphen – To use a hyphen, bracket the hyphen with a blank space.

To insert a blank line use < p > or < br > (no spaces within the <>) at the end of a line.

Insert a link: but without the ! or –

Go Comics Blog

Insert an image:The HTML takes the following form;

Sites like Photobucket provide an HTML string that you can paste into your comment but – and this is important – the image may too large for the comment area. Insert the modifiers Width=“125” Height=“125” as show above. The Width and Height can then be adjusted for readability. But, IMHO, the size of any image you insert should be no more than ¼ the area of a single panel of the comic strip.Note:

Not all websites will allow you to embed their images.Tks Hobbes, Grog and others for their comments.

Maybe his school’s Health Class will show a 30-year-old film on “Diagraming Sentences Safely.”

This grammar stuff was always over my head.

Good one, GM.

Soon he will grow up, become an independent clause and take on a subjunctive attitude.

@x_Tech: Yeah, I mentioned yesterday that the StyleGuide was out of date – thanks for providing an updated version.

and after all that , it’s the pre-nup clause

“And when you get a little older, you’ll have to be careful about improper nouns and prepositions or you’ll get punctuated!”

The key word in his explanation is sentence (think jail time).

“…and when the direct object of his affections is having her period, he may not be able to have an interjection.”

I agree, Ryan, it’s one of Teresa’s best.

@Radish, mad props. You just showed me that avatars can be animated .gif’s, which thing I had never before supposed.

Thanks to x_Tech for the gentle prod.

The Unofficial GoComics Style Guide has been updated. Still a work in progress, we may yet discover new features..

Winner :)

Quote Of the Day“Inside a small room, surrounded by committee members and other softball officials, the players said they were interrogated about their sexual orientation. Confusion reigned. According to court records, one player declined to say whether he was gay or straight but acknowledged being married to a woman. Another answered yes to both gay and heterosexual definitions. A third asked if bisexual was acceptable and was told, ‘This is the Gay World Series, not the Bisexual World Series.’”