Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 28, 2012

Finally, something reliable about Atkinson & Barker’s Royal Infants’ Preservative:

http://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/atkinson-barkers-royal-infants-preservative/

I haven’t found what it contained in its 1915 formula, but for well over a century it used opium derivatives to “quiet” sick infants and children. Once in a while it left them permananetly quiet.

Off-topic, today’s Kliban is one of my all-time favorites.

Wallow in it, waste it not!

Hey, some of us are always cheerful (yep, that’s me: it drives everyone nuts) and a bad mood is so rare that you just have to savor every moment!

Teresa, did you beach old comic strips to create that background?

Teresa once posted a song on the FB that was Runaway Train by Soul Asylum, but today’s strip goes better with their song Misery. The opening lyrics fit perfectly.

Gloom is the natural state of the universe, you silly thing! Wallow in it!

THAT’s where my farm animal set went. Carole Landis’s milliner took it. Didn’t see that coming.

Gloom is a state of daily life in the PNW.

If that’s the VIP toilet, what do the peons use?

…darn it…that was the first thing that hit me.

happy, happy, happy…sorry. wrong strip.

The bloom is still on her gloom. Ah … drink in the essence!!!

Re: The rejected “Dilbert” strip … I’m surprised the editor recognized what they were.

True ’dat!

“I hate in when someone ruind my bad mood.”

That’s one of the funniest Dilberts ever. Be even funnier when it slides down the page about 5 posts. As I type this, that would put it right beside this right margin sentence: Go ahead! Grab and drag the balls.

It’s nice they spoon feed you instructions for making that lamp.

VIP Toilet: This is reputed to be in India, but having traveled to places in the world like DRC, Egypt and Turkey, I can tell you that VIP Kackstuhl is pretty high quality compared to some of the others I’ve seen.

… but a bad gloom is a wonderful thing to waste.

Don’t have a good gloom very often, but when I do, it is fun to include everyone around me. Don’t want to be selfish.

Your chicken coop is more of a chicken tractor. You move it around on those wheels and help concentrate their poops to fertilize specific areas. We had one growing up.

Wow, I did not know this strip had so many fans. Glad I found it.

Re: blog: Lurved the chicken fambly!! :oD

Your gloom is no match for my testicular fortitude.

Re: Babysitter on the blog…..You’ve got the cutest little Baby face!

Teresa, I know Farriers, Blacksmiths, Welders and other manipulators of metal all commonly wear leather aprons as do I when I practice smithing; must be other uses for them also, though. I’m sure the odd dungeon master must find them handy as well as the S&M community; but I’ve said to much already. Surely Vlad has one hidden away in the depths of his armoire?

i like wet plants…

don’t wet your plants if you are wearing a leather apron.

Some welders buy whole leather jackets but those get pretty hot… some buy just the leather sleeves and/or chaps but they don’t cover some of the more delicate areas.

I gotta rethink reading this…

“I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That’s the two categories. The horrible are like, I don’t know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don’t know how they get through life. It’s amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you’re miserable, because that’s very lucky, to be miserable.” ― Woody Allen, Annie Hall tags: humour , life