Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 30, 2015

Good thing we’re not mice.

Certainly one of the cheesiest experiments ever run.

Huh. I think it’s more likely that they would be randomly endowed with cartoon characteristics, and randomly navigate, ignore, or destroy the maze.Some would hover. Some would sing opera. Some would explode.

So far, I haven’t killed anyone. But, then, I haven’t met any of the other FA commenters in person, either. Yet.

Instead of killing time, kill each other. Don’t quit your day job.

Lighten up, Frances.

It was simple logic. You could run the maze to get the cheese, or you could reduce the number of mice, and therefore increase the supply of cheese. Reducing the number of mice did not require running the maze.If you are one of the remaining mice, then you, in a state of crazed frenzy, destroyed those mice now absent.But don’t blame yourself. It is their own fault for not being able to raise themselves to the level of crazed frenzy necessary to enjoy Frog Applause.

Welcome to the rat race where the entire world is a maze and Frog Applause is the drug of choice.

It not only exists, but thrives.

Instead of killing, I would have thought they would have just gone lame ?

Later, found huddling in a corner, was daisy-head Mazie.

Killed each other?Those dirty rats…

I’ve often wanted to kill a few people who beat me to the punch line, but they won’t tell me where they live. But you know, we should be given cheese rewards for the best punch line of the day. Dubliner, preferably. Not brie. Maybe feta.

Royal entertainment? We are not amused.

But they are very polite and honorable in it.Doesn’t the character in the panels above seem as though she could benefit from the Milk of Magnesia of human kindness?