Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 20, 2011

One where we can each have a complete set of legs? Please, daddy?

Young lady, there are starving children in China who would give ANYTHING to be in Frog Applause!

Those Thai commercials are beautiful.

Now, family, you know only Teresa would hire us in our leg-deficient condition—most other comic strips would just add a bit more inking, but Teresa accepts us for what we are! —And then puts us on display for her readers to mock.

is this a stand alone comic?

With the trend in disappearing walls in comics, I predict one multi-cartoonist strip filling the quarter page my local rag now gives the comics.

NO !! You are what you are ..

re blog — I wonder how many Stella screwed ??

I’m too tired to go to sleep,I should like to talk a bit;You don’t have to listen or understand,I’ve just got to talk to someone.

I’m too tired to go to sleep,For whom should I rest, anyhow?I know it’s four, you want to go now,You’ve been yawning and bored for a while now.

Alone, we can still always be alone,We have learned nothing else,We do not know each other, yet we recognize each other,For two is what we have never been.

So I sit for years, hate the silence,Love the noise, the sleepless night;Await the day with drunken thoughtsMeet the morning shift of the awakening city.

So I live for years, hate the quiet,Love the pulse of the hastening night;Sink into the light of the despondent day,Await the hour of the night, my sleepless night.

-Translation by The Old Wolf

You complete me. (Oh, no you don’t.)

The strip is a little lame today—not a leg to stand on…..☻

What other strip would have 3 one-legged people and 1 no-legged girl?

But they are somehow able to make a stand.

when you put nuts in coke float and drink it with a straw , you get a plugged up straw, and your cheeks cave in

I’ve heard a lot of overtone singing in my days but that’s the first time I’ve ever heard a singer who could warble/trill the overtone (it was the singer playing the banjo-like instrument). Amazing.

yes you may. hop along now.

dont ya just hate it when your characters come to life and want to stuff on their own

Wow. A Porta-Potty for J. Edgar Hoover.

Those THROAT SINGING videos really got my foot a tappin’.Now I feel the need to listen to some Tom Waits.

Nah, JP I’d rather hear fraeulein Knef.

As for healthful love, I have a vigorous heart and exhilarated happiness and a marriage that amounts to something.

Just a little more ink, please, please.

To see what sex may have meant to the early 19th C. British gentleman go to H. Rutherford’s _Salmagundi_to scroll down & see a “brass cased cylinder watch with concealed erotic automaton”Armless Swiver

Like the figures in Teresa’s toon today the male automaton has lost a limb and probably can no longer service that sturdy wench properly.

The British Museum would not allow me to link directly to their image of the watch.

Boy, it looks like 1953 was a year that really implied playing the field made for a better marriage.

Gives new meaning to having a leg to stand on..If money gets tight they could get a job at IHOP.

À la Blog – Superman once fought Chuck Norris, the loser had to wear his underwear on the outside of his pants. The quote stated there was from the second movie, Kill Bill Vol. 2.

@Blog: Jim’s Journal is on the same Superman wavelength

Sanitary napkin slippers are about as classy as a Duct-Tape Wallet.

One story about Superman has it that Siegel and Schuster were poking fun at antisemites. The two artists had heard various antisemites say how easily they could recognize Jews. So here’s Superman wandering around in glasses, a fedora and a suit, and nobody can recognize him as Sperman. “Funny, he doesn’t look Kryptonian!”

I like to think I can appreciate avant garde but this strip is getting too crazy even for me.

The morgue stuff was creepy. The stains on the floor. Shiver.

@Commentator: My wife told me she had these two bumper stickers when she was in college, and wished she had them back. I designed these two for her birthday and she was delighted.

Sticker 1

Sticker 2

I love my wife…

Delores Costello. Watch the 1929 movie “Noah’s Ark” and just try not to think of her granddaughter.

@The Old Wolf….I resemble that remark! I have a duct tape wallet! . . The photo of Delores Costello is captivating, even if she does have upside down Vulcan ears. .