Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 25, 2012

Walk and rejoice in your own personal cloud of rain…

Just singin’ in the rain

Rainy today with a chance for vomit.

Dear Teresa

There was a death on Rotifer’s side of the family. As a result he’s out of town. However, I know he’d want me to comment on the risqué nature of today’s cartoon and your total disregard of the superintending (suffocating?) oversight of the GoComics Overlords.

Are you nuts?

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Sincerely,

Rotifer’s Mother

That butt cheek is just plain wrong. I know because it has a big red X on it.

That fallout shelter isn’t practical, for a lot of reasons. I guess you were supposed to stand at the urinal, but I don’t see any provisions for other bodily functions (defecation aside, good luck if nervous tension or radiation sickness made you vomit or gave you diarrhea). You were supposed to stay in a fallout shelter for up to two weeks, during which time the outside radiation level would decay by 99.9%. Four people would need a minimum of a gallon of water a day, and I don’t see a tank with fifty-six gallons of water in it. I’m sure the manufacturer guaranteed a refund if the bomb dropped and your shelter didn’t work to your satisfaction.

Life magazine ran an article on fallout shelters back then:

http://books.google.com/books?id=nVQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA95&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

Check out the last picture. After fifty years I still can’t figure out who the bobbysoxer has phoned, or how she phoned someone, much less what makes her so cheerful. (“Betty Sue, the radiation turned my boyfriend into the cutest three-eyed mutant!”)

The pitter-patter of localized raindrops on the vomit-stained preacheress led her to try to pull up her panties to cover the Scarlet Letter branded on her butt-cheek during the perverted ceremony, but she had already been spied out by the censorious Mob at GoComics, now hurling their harsh epithets at the shamed subject….What the dickens?

Who’s Better?

The best thing about waking up in a puddle of puke is, you don’t have to get out of bed to have breakfast.

Well kiss my Patoties! X marks the spot!

Its not love of money, as the prophet said, but fear of pain that’s the root of evil. Dull the bright side of your mind by starving your id … for ’tis your fear that drives your urge.

More of Bill Watterson’s ancillary art can be found here. Some nice examples, too.

I have to agree that waking up in your own vomit is much better than waking up in someone else’s vomit.

Actually, I DO feel better.

I do assume the red x is an invitation to play tic tac toe on your naked body?

Always good to get the gist of the sermon a day early so I praise Val appropriately.

Maybe you should read “Close to Home” today before you use the word like.

Well.so much for eating today!!!!!!!!!!!!

That thing has more craters in it than the Moon does.

My favorite David Niven moment is what he said about the streaker at the Academy Awards. He said “…the only laugh that man may get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings.”

@BillThompson As the text says, “At the moment, shelter is her clubhouse,” so this would have been pre-attack. Having grown up in that era and looking back on it now, it makes me shudder to think how much money was wasted on such ineffective and paranoia-driven preparations.

If that was green, it would be an Irish @ss.

The male dancers, are they members of the Ballet Russe?

FAT Translator says: Automatic moral religious missionaries. Best experience a sense of wonder, vomit speaks to you, proposition to do better.

Did I just miss something here? what proposal? No one ever tells me anything. Anyways, I’m afraid of heights, so there!

LOL! Where do you get these animated faces?

Good Night!

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what in sam hill is this all about?

Mother Thalweg looks like a nice lady.

This strip just blew me away! What chemical does she draw her inspiration(s) on?