Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 20, 2008

The words under the strip: Frog Applause goes mainstream. Attempt #26. Is this banal enough? Is the kitty blue enough? Cute enough? Are any of his private kitty parts showing? – No. Yes. Yes. No.

His private kitty parts are too blue.

In the first panel, he is underhovering.

Ban banal, it’s the bane of higher brain activity.

Here kitty kitty!

No toast. This is obviously not a manifestation of the BFAD.

what’s a BFAD? (I’m definitely over 30)

5th panel: I have hovered

I did not understand runar’s comment either. What is BFAD? Also: Why did he say “No toast”? I’m feeling dumb now.

Tom: He must return to the ground before he can say “I have hovered”. :-) My guess is that the fifth panel says, “I am an overhoverer”.

When you drop a piece of toast, it always lands buttered side down. When you drop a cat, it always lands on its feet. When you strap a piece of toast, buttered side up, on the back of a cat, and drop it, what happens? The law of falling toast decrees that the butter lands on the floor. The law of feline deceleration demands that the animal lands on its feet. An equilibrium is struck by nature in which the cat/toast combination is suspended in mid-fall. Voila! The BFAD: Buttered Feline Antigravity Device. Rumor has it that NASA is investigating the possibility of using the BFAD for the Mars mission and replacing the shuttle (Hint: try doing a search on “Buttered Feline”).

I’d like to have a blue cat like that – as long as his private parts don’t fall off and hover independently.

You deserve a big round of frog applause for your BFAD comment, runar. Too funny!

No, no, no, and, unfortunately, no.