Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 20, 2019

1: Milton Berle

2:Bob Hope

3: Jack Benny

4: George Burns

Comics Rehab … forced to watch reruns of these gentlemen …

the overlapping platitudes would be historical laughter in a most religious manner ..

Heeeeeerrrrreeee’’’’’sssss JOHNNY … THE BAPTIST …

Addicted to comics, and unrepentant.

… if your religion is comedy are your platitudes running jokes?…

…surprise, surprise, surprise, that’s not my finger, either…

…speaking of running jokes…

…run Forrest, run…

…I think it was the book of Lukewarm that had the Platitudes On The Mound…

…thy shall not break up a no hitter with a blunt…

…blessed are those that go down swinging…

…third base…

…90 days, huh?…

…that’s more than double for making stupid people famous…

… Milton Berle was known for his large…er…amount of jokes…

When Glob closes a comics rehab door, he opens a comics rehab window.

Black Nepalese, it’s got you weak in your knees

Sneeze some dust that you got buzzed on

You know it’s hard to believe

30 days in the hole

That’s what they give you

30 days in the hole

I know

That is good treatment. Nothing funnier.

…and…in honor of 50 years ago today…

…in 8th grade, my social studies teacher asked me if I ever thought of becoming an astronaut?…

…yes, I exclaimed, how did you know?…

…she said, oh, I’ve known you’ve been taking up space for quite a while, now…

Hmm … 90 days of repeating religious platitudes. Had 18 years of that, including 12 years of Catholic school. It wouldn’t be rehab for me – more like relapse. I think I’ll stay lapsed, thank you.

I blame the demise of the Comics Code Authority.

What has Teresa done to be doomed to this “rehab”? She is the purveyor, and it’s we who are the junkies who need rehab. A few YouTubes of Rita Rudner usually help me make it through the night. (A Kris Kristofferson song, but I don’t know what (or who) helps Kris make it through the night, and I guess I never will.)

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

Hmmm … religious platitudes … ok … A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a bar … the bartender says “What is this, a joke?”

The Church of the Blinding Light. “Give them a light and they’ll follow it anywhere!”

My name is Radish, and I’m a comics addict…

The Stork follows in most deliveries, then it ain’t over till the fat lady sings!

Don’t tip over commander …

Obviously a faux “treatment” for Comics. There is in fact no known cure for Comics. I have been addicted since about the age of four. I consider Comics a perfectly normal condition.

You must escape the clutches of these phony practitioners, Sister! All Froglandia is rooting for you and for Comics!

I’m sorry, Teresa. But remember, God has a plan for you; everything happens for a reason.

Bring your own M&M’s …

If this was my demise, I would ask for the Seinfeld or Eddie Murphy bed, and chair in the cafeteria! :D

Hymn that skirt lower Sister, show some leg! The habit is a changing.

I was taken away for thunder clap pinging in the frog section… plenty of ping pong….

Not to be too bold but, One of the funniest laughter moments was when Joe Walsh joined in the Drew Carey Band.

… Jesus the comic: before you remove the sliver from your neighbor’s eye, first remove the plank from your own…

…damn it Jim, I’m a miracle worker not a doctor…

…whatever you do to the least of my brother’s, that you do unto me…

they’ve felt drained for an exhaustive few decades, and are recovering from consistently pushing themselves to be people pleasers

Blessed are the pure improvement of pacemakers, for they will see and read daily comics habitually.

They told me “go to rehab.”

I said “no no no!”

Platitudes from which religion? “Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!” perhaps?

From the Borg of Education, there are 5 lights, not 4 Captain. The cube has spoken in this seed.

We’re four or five days into comic rehab now, seems to be working for me, don’t know about Teresa….

… it seems to me whether God is real, or if the Bible is truly inspired by God does not seem to be the point. …

…the rules, regulations and guidelines contained by them have been lived by our ancestors for over four thousand / two thousand years…

… that’s a long time for a set of people the live by a set of values…

… not they we live or even have to want live by these rules…

…we cross them willingly and refuse to cross them willingly…

…and that is the point…

…without these commandments how do we even know that there are lines to cross?…

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