Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 27, 2012

We all are.

Heartfelt tribute, Teresa. I’m sad along with you.

agreed.

Sweet strip :(

Please fix your wand. Make it work…and take the sadness away.

Thanks Teresa.

A slightly twisted mind is a terrible thing to waste. I hope he is able to find another creative outlet.

Best of luck to you Mr. Thompson. I’m going to miss my daily Cul-da-sac fix.

I have been sad and disappointed since I first heard the news. Cul de Sac has been such a wonderful depiction of the quirks and joy of family life.

Sadness

A fine tribute, Teresa.

Thank you, a very nice tribute.

So in your blog photos of men, who photo-shopped Pres. Obama’s face into the photo? Also the guy reading the comics, I was wowed. We don’t have as many comics in our Sunday comics as he has on just one page. Small town papers suck….

I think all of us “Cul-de-Sac” readers are saddened by the strip’s coming to an end but at the same time incredibly grateful for the few years of joy we had with The Otterloops.

THE CAKE IS A LIE!Ok, not really, I just wanted to say that.Anyway, I had a couple boxes of cornbread and found a box of yellow cake when I was looking through my baking cupboard so I made the recipe on the Blog.I’ll note that I guessed and tried to get as close to 50/50 mix as possible then used the rest of the yellow cake batter to bake a small cake.Results: The cornbread very much overpowered the taste of the cake. If you’ve never had corn bread, it tastes more like creamed corn than corn on the cob. Without frosting, it tasted like a slightly fluffier version of cornbread. After tasting the cake without frosting and going back, the corn-cake felt HEAVY in comparison. With vanilla frosting, The corn-cake still felt heavy, but I noticed it held together well. It still had the cornbread taste, though it paired well with the frosting. If I had to choose, I think would still pick the cake and frosting though.My favorite way to eat cornbread is heated and drizzled with butter. The corn-cake was also very good this way. Without regular cornbread to compare it to, it isn’t quite a fair comparison, but I liked this way better than with frosting and better than regular cornbread with butter.Conclusion, if you like cornbread, this is a way to make Jiffy Cornbread even better, but it is not cake. So, in the end, the cake really was a lie.

would that that were true , stel ol bel. but where do you draw the line, so to speak?. who is to decide who should be cured of their terminal disease and who should be left to fend for themselves without the wave of that magic wand? is it talent? or cuteness?…or the way it really works— pure dumb luck.pure dumb luck that a lame brain lives to be a hundred (hey, I’m only 65!) and a Mozart dies at 35 or a Van Gogh dies at 37.RFK said once that nobody ever said that life is supposed to be fair. and it sure isn’t

IT PAYS TO LOOK WELLThese are all hairstyles I was familiar with from the 50s and early 60s (pre-Beatles, after that few lingered). But one on the poster looked like a missing hairstyle. Off to Google. Sure enough, The DA was the missing Duck Tails style. D did stand for duck. Shouldn’t take much to figure out what the A was.

Very nice tribute to Richard. May a cure be found soon for this horrid disease.

RE: BlogTo live a life worth writing about, one must first step through the door.

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Hear, hear!

What a wonderful tribute Teresa! Thank you

Thanks, Teresa! (how did she learn my middle name????!!)

Re: TorshavnWhen we visited there two years ago we were warned on arrival by our host: “If you don’t like the weather just wait 5 minutes”. Turned out to be true! Thank you for reminding us of how beautiful the Faroe Islands are. The people of Torshavn were very friendly and helpful. Looking forward to going back there some day.

Thanks from me too, Teresa. Nice tribute. The Otterloops are like family. Thanks Richard Thompson for bringing them too us.@Dogsniff – that is so true.

A wonderful tribute – I am devastated at the loss of what I consider the best comic ever. Thank you, Theresa.

Snap!

Amen.

Jiffy isn’t real cornbread anyway; it’s got too much sugar in it. It’s actually jonnycake. And the yellow-cake hybrid is simply jonnycaker. Nothing fake about it. Unless you thought cornbread was where you started. Wrongggggg!

There are many recipes for cornbread. I’ve had homemade Wisconsin Cornbread and Jiffy is a pale imitation of that, but it is cornbread. Just because cornbread in your area is different, doesn’t make it “Wrongggggg!”.Don’t assume that what you think cornbread should be is the only definition.

Re blog & Male Affection.Modern American culture sure has done a number on the male psyche. Many cultures around the world have no problem with male affection, holding hands, kissing, hugging, etc…. even in places were homosexuality carries the threat of the death penalty these displays of affection between men are the norm.Not sure how we became so prudish and convoluted in our view of sexuality over here, but it seems as though the younger generations are pushing back on this ill-conceivednotion.

Very nice tribute to a very talented man!

May you return to your craft one day Richard!

Sorry to join in so late today (but that’s what you get for posting late, T.).Beautiful tribute to a great artist, a gentle man, and victim of a cruel disease that has palpably affected all of us who are his fans. (Although I was not aware of his name back then, I first became familiar with Richard’s work when he did brilliant caricatures for the “Washington Whispers” feature in the old print-edition of U.S. News and World Report, to which I used to subscribe.)

Thanks for putting our wishes in words and images, Teresa; maybe the ‘magic’ of more research – and more money to support it – will benefit others with Parkinson’s, let’s hope & work for it…

Thank You Frog Applause…

A fine tribute to a great artist, one of the best and most original, ever.

Interesting that Charles Schulz had PD also, but his apparently progressed very slowly.

May Richard find a lot of relief with his new treatment.

I felt so much sadness when I read the news of Mr. Parkinson’s illness. Kudos to Teresa Burritt for acknowledging it.