Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 02, 2016

Just a guess, but I don’t think that poultice helped Mrs. Osborn recover from the snake bite. And, frankly, it helped her lose a bit too much weight.

If I had a snake I would try that on someone.

I like her hair. Her complexion, not so much.

If alone and the rattler bites you say between the shoulder blades, run like hell to the ER, or hospitals cafeteria.

Here’s the whole section:.“Bites. In the case of poisonous bites, as from snakes, bandage tightly above the wound, cut out edges of wound with knife or cauterize with nitrate of silver: wash the wound with whiskey or with a solution of bichloride of mercury. The important thing is to keep a tight bandage above the wound for several hours. Take raw onions and salt enough to make them very salty, crush together thoroughly. Apply as a poultice directly to the bite. Remove it when it turns green. Renew frequently until it no longer colors. Drink a glass of water in which is dissolved half a tablespoonful of soda; and bathe the wound in a strong solution of soda. As soon as a dog of questionable sanity bites you, go to a doctor or a druggist, and have the wound thoroughly burned out with caustic. Then start straight for one of the Pasteur Institutes. They cure a large percentage of the cases. (See also Hydrophobia.) ".(From What to do and how to do it; a home manual, treating of the home and its interests, the culinary art, health and its requirements, the farm and its activities, things worth remembering, miscellaneous information, etc., etc., etc.")

OMG if you are going to cauterize a wound, please remember to at least have a bullet to bite on, cause it goner cause a lot of brain screaming within you.

(Mrs.) Chas. S, Osborn. is blessed with curves..

“Dog of questionable sanity…” is good.

And if you live long enough to chop the onions and apply the poultice, it’s pretty likely you were going to survive anyway.This seems a bit like using a paddle ball to mend broken bones.Just keep using the paddle ball and it will fix the bone in six to eight weeks, though you might want to get it positioned to how you want it to be set before you start paddling.

From the Department of Rotifer’s Unsolicited Life Saving Advice (Non Snake Related Division)

The French word for “paperclip” is “trombone.”

(I just thought Tee should know this in the event a shadowy figure in a dark alley on a moonless night slips up behind her and sticks a sharp object in her ribs and asks, “What’s the French word for “paperclip?”)

Onions? Why not garlic or even hot peppers. What properties in onions are supposed to do the job?

A poultice made of heavily salted crushed onion sucks.

The French call a Trombone a “saqueboute”.

Through these first several decades of life, I’ve avoided the rattlesnakes and their bites. I have, on the other hand, encountered bees, wasps, scorpions, and lizards, not to mention rats and non-rattle snakes, and other assorted potentially dangerous vermin.Mrs. Osborn’s book (not the Mrs. Osborn I knew, who did not write a book of practical home cures and solutions) was useful in 1909, I suppose, but I would put much trust in it today, well over a century later. Her stylized image, with a little squinting to blur details, reminds me of a Predynastic female figurine, likely fertility-related, from Egypt.Was Mrs. Osborn Egyptian? If not, why not?

I tried to think up a funny question to ask about Teresa (since Pastis and Wiley Miller had questions), but I came up with zilch. http://blogs.gocomics.com/2016/09/i-did-something-crazy-yesterday.htmlWho can think of something??to ask.

I feel so inadequate.—back to today’s strip: white, yellow or red onions?

This is Onion.He is Vidalia’s child.Yellowtail is his father.I’m not sure what that means.I just like the show.Steven Universe is the best.

I have posted some photos and comments at Citizen Dog concerning the van.

You have no idea how happy i am.And, there is no way that i could have done this alone.I think that about 1/3 of the cost to make this happen came from me.All the rest, except for $500 from my boss, came from people here at GoComics that donated to my GoFundMe.

YOU made this happen. All of you that donated to my cause.

And, I’m just starting at making a difference, I’m sure.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

TYPO ALERT! “…but I would NOT put much trust in it today….”

Forget to mention your supervisor. I love old dogs. But then, I love old people, too. (I was raised by my grandparents.)