Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 23, 2009

Some would think that’s a good thing…

You chose not to be a hunter-gatherer.

You gave up the freedom of the forest for carparks, wild berries for instant dinners in aisle 6.

You play lotto instead of games with leaves and wind.

You might wish your life was not the drudgery of shopping trips to concrete deserts as ugly as this but it is.

Plight: Another beauty.

With the right tools you can re-calibrate just about anything. Just go to the hardware store and ask.

Well Teresa, sometimes that can be a good thing.

First there was “truthiness”. Now we have “suckiness”. Will there be no enditude to neologisms?

Hey Everyone – Check out the comic strip “Pepe” today. Also “Mutt & Jeff,” they are both pretty crazy.

And if you subscribe to “Daily Ink” check out “Buz Sawyer,” “Mark Trail,” “Henry,” “Mary Worth,” and “Snuffy Smith,” – they are all pretty crazy today.

Oh, and if you have a moment read “The Doozies” and favorite it. I’m a personal friend of Teresa Dowlatshahi. But like these other strips, my weakest jokes are on Friday. But read us Monday and Tuesday, we rock!

Rock on!

tgaml-I’ll take your advice, pls don’t disappoint.

All you need to do is hit a couple of pot holes in the road of life, that’ll throw your calibration off and give you an excuse to take it into the shop and get rebalanced…

farleftside: Absolutely brilliant! Would that we had the Metric system as a standard here in the U.S.

plight: Beautiful, very lyrical, haunting. Is it your creation?

Except for maybe painedsmile and Dypak, my love life is the suckiest. I think my cheap aftershave is to blame.

I take umbrage with sloop’s comment. My love life is the unsuckiness it’s ever been in years (but I’m hoping to correct that shortly).

Good luck with that, painedsmurf.

Teresa, I share your umbrage! As do my attorneys!

frogapplause says:

A spirited following? So THAT’S who all you crazy people are!! http://gocomics.typepad.com/editors/2009/01/frog-applause-short-interviews.html

Yep, that’s us, spirited followers. Baaa-a

tgaml says:

Oh, and if you have a moment read “The Doozies” and favorite it. I’m a personal friend of Teresa Dowlatshahi. But like these other strips, my weakest jokes are on Friday. But read us Monday and Tuesday, we rock!

Tom, I thought that today’s strip was pretty good. And where can I get an official Doozies mug, like the one featured in that swell video?

Right now all Doozie merchandise you have to make yourself

“spirited following”

unoriginal, i know. also no livestock implications were intended.

some (rejected) alternatives:

plural commenters slew of whimsical appreciators crazy people

and yes, pepe today IS especially crazy today. he’s literally lighting his smoke from lightning. moco is brilliant. frog applause is pretty great too. thanks for letting us post some strips and link to the interviews.

tgaml says:

Right now all Doozie merchandise you have to make yourself

Well, that’s no fun, I can’t draw like you do.

someone should recommend a good plumber

Don’t give up hope.

margueritem: many thanks fenyugreek: yes Teresa: we’re still a fair way from the dizzy heights of smokingtree

tgaml says: Right now all Doozie merchandise you have to make yourself

I tried but it looks more like The David.

wuztwo says:

Ummm, sorry I didn’t catch what you said I was distracted for some reason. ;)

frogapplause says: I take umbrage with the comment that J.C. Duffy has been hanging out with me too much!

The headline reads like the aftermath of one of your strips. I can see one of your characters saying “I got into a heated discussion at a coffee shop and I lost my head”

and if I have to wait til monday to get a new Frog Applause I will start suffering from frog withdrawal and my heart will break.

ok ok my failed attempt at creating a doozie product looks more like an arthritic Picasso trying to remake Munch’s The Scream.

Hoover would be proud.