Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for October 15, 2012

“With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything’s far away. Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy.” – Fight Club.

I highly recommend if you can’t sleep, read “Insomnia” by Stephen King. It won’t help you sleep, but it makes a good excuse for not being able to.

I know several people who suffer from the problem.

That’s no fun to read if you automatically try to group the words by column.

funk days is the culprit. Everything spiral sleep Not pretty.

Shakespeare thought the word hedgepig was an insult? What a jerk he was! Hedgepigs are cute!

Funky-town time will wear itself down. You’ll probably sleep from Tuesday afternoon to Friday morning. We’ll know, if FA and FB go dark!

Re blog: Lounging Cats……didn’t their mothers ever tell them about posture?

Shakespearian insult generator at your service, one of many out there.In 1985 I came across a similar tripartate list for generating random TV plots, and wrote code for a program to run on the Wang OIS. A modern version is here.

Blog: When I was around 3 or 4, my father built a “taxi” for me out of huge wooden blocks. I don’t remember much about it except the thing I loved best – a WitEze fan with rubber blades. How delightful to see a picture of the exact same fan that kept me fascinated for hours (simple minds, you know) and to know that it had a name.

Gotta get into the rhythm of the spiral, keep it from spiraling down—unless you know how to go down for a nap!

Teresa, your ranking is within spitting distance of Broom Hilda and Lio. I’d rather be in that company than with some of higher ranked comics.

That silhouette is positively (OK, possibly) cul-de-sac-ian…

No electrical power for most of the day sent me to bed early. Hence, I am up early. The best way to do away with sleep deprivation is mass quantities of alcohol.

Thou lumpish, rump-fed pumpion.

Teresa, being 40th out of 242 puts FA in the 83rd percentile, meaning people look at only 17 comics out of 100 more than they look at FA.

Being 48th out of 269 puts us in the 82nd percentile, which to me is basically unchanged. Sorry about that. What we don’t have is how many visits FA received out of the total, year-over-year. But what everybody on this forum knows: readers of FA are rewarded with 100 times the mental stimulation and reward per conversation balloon that readers of other strips get.

All of us feel like charlatans now and then. Although now that I’ve reached “a certain age,” I find I try to fake a lot fewer things.

As a confirmed insomniac (I have no choice really) I can attest to the long held belief that alcohol does NOT solve the problem. Consume enough alcohol and you may pass out, but you will NOT fall asleep … and you will “come to” with a hangover. I’ve found the best solution is to read a good book.

sorry…dont mean to preach.

i have fond childhood memories of peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiches.Mmmm…: P

i like bunnies

If you can’t sleep, at least the clowns won’t eat you.

RAINY DAY (1965) #12 & 35?

If you like the Shakespearean insults, there are plenty of random generators of those on the the net.

Re Shakespearian Insults: it’s also good fun to break up and recombine the individual components:‘Thou fat-eyed bum-beast! Mammering son of a crook-gaited apple-licker!’

Matt Forsythe 

One scythe fits all?

Shakespearean insults is missing “foul bunch-baccked toad”. I use this frequently to describe Charles Krauthamer when one of his columns is more annoying than usual.

Re Insomnia: Somehow I’m not surprised, after the previous cartoon (the one with the cuneiform bacteria), which was a complex piece of High Art.Creating something like this engages the whole being, with unfortunate consequences for sleep rhythm and bowel movements.This is what drove Jackson Pollock to drink! He should have switched to cartooning, limiting himself to just one creative idea per day. What a waste.

What on Earth?.Here and there.Up and down.Where’s my drink?

Eat oranges before bed and have Vlad take the baby to the gym.

I am woman, hear me roar. I’m in charge, get over it.

I’ll have another

Dear Aunt Teresa,I only read 6 of the strips ahead of FA in the ranking, but I read those on my own time, so I don’t charge for those or for any of the comments I leave there. As long as I’m well-paid, I’m very loyal. By the way, thanks for the bonus last week!

I gave up on Stephen King in the middle of the only one of his books I read when he had one of his characters siphon gasoline from the underground storage tank at a gas station. Now that I’ve seen that sport coat, he frightens me.

Mom wants to know if you’re coming for Thanksgiving.

Didn’t anyone tell Jacques Costeau it’s a bad idea to stand under a flock of seagulls with no shirt, no hat, your head back and your mouth open? Or did this picture capture the moment before he decided to spend his life underwater?

the Man’s Prayer: “I’m a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.”

Three words men don’t say;I don’t knowI am lost.

Been watching too much Red Green, I guess.

I prefer sleep is for the week.

Judging by the comments, I would have to say that Frog Applause has a fairly high Passion score.

Actually I kind of gear my sleeping to daylight. I sleep more in the winter and much less in summer, but I make a point of being up by 6 AM.