Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 15, 2017

We’ve been over this. I don’t exist. I am only a voice in your head. If you tell anybody about me, they will lock you up and medicate you until you cannot hear me.

For a second there I thought Buzza Wuzza was making a comeback.

Reflect a moment. You’ll find that I don’t have to actually look at you.

GoComics is very light on comments this morning.

Have all the saviors of humanity gone off on a three-day tour?

We’re looking!

If you do exist, you do not require my gaze for validation. Your doubts are unfounded. On the other hand, if you do not exist, you cannot be doubting your (non-)existence; instead, this must be a phantasm out of my imagination. Yet, I am looking at you (not to mention commenting about you and to you), and so you must exist.

So stop harassing me with such troublesome questions! It’s too early in the morning, and my head hurts!

You again Figment?

Looks as if you’re rollin’ some wacky tobacky..

But what if your name is Schrödinger, and the act of looking at you settles your existence/non-existence issue in the negative? Will I have to apologize to someone who never existed in the first place? Excuse me while I consult my cat. She’s sleeping in a box, I think.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bare, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hare.

See, there was this French guy, because of course there was, named Descartes who allegedly figured it all out. Then along came this other French dude, called Sartre, and he put a modern spin on it. So don’t worry. If you think you may or may not exist, you’ve already answered the question. Bien sûr!

MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEME!!!!!!!!!

If you have to ask, you shouldn’t.

If we don’t look at Donald Trump will he stop existing? Sorry. My bad.

…TRUE STORY…

…I said good morning to a fellow employee once, and he said as long as he did not acknowledge me I didn’t exist…

…I replied,well you blew that, then, didn’t you?…

…René Descartes once famously said,’ I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am’…

…but, what is doubt[ besides:a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction] ?…

…is doubt a chemical reaction in the brain?..

…a learned response?

…genetic material?…

…a subconscious behavior?…

…fear?…

…the best epilogue of any book that I ever read was that in War and Peace{was it the 1st one or the second? I can’t remember}…

…we are just part of a wave with little or no control over the rolling of time and circumstance…

..why do willing cheer bombs blowing up or enemies? Or watch the last episode of MASH?…

…they can’t force us and yet we follow along in the eye of the group think hurricane…

…this is where it gets trickly dickly…

..when we later own up to our mistakes…

…(why did I eat that whole can of SPAM???)…

…is when we acknowledge that while we may not be totally in control of our surroundings in environment, we are aware of them and their consequences…

…thus making us aware of choice…{ I was fighting temptation and hoping I’d lose }…

…ride the wave, my friends…or swim upstream…hell, even go sideways to get out of the undertow…

…breath with me…

…as for me and my family…we will read the Frog!…

…ok…ok..@ least *I WILL *…

Happy Easter everyone…

@$%&! I knew I shouldn’t of had that 3rd cup of coffee…

Tall shadow men with wiggly arms only exist in your fears, it’s what they feed on.

If all o’y’all are figments I’m seriously demented. If I’m a figment you need help. If we figments don’t get too out of hand they may not medicate us to oblivion.

Fig’s leaf medication

You fear oblivion, but oblivion is all. This place; this world; this universe, all happened long, long ago, and this is only a glowing ember of a fragment of a lost memory, that will soon grow cold and join the darkness. Does this seem real to you? Do you seem real to you? Could you get this close if the intensity of reality were present? Could anything real be this messed up and keep on going?

Officious FA Interloper: “Remember when her detractors used to accuse Teresa of just throwing together a bunch of random words and calling it a day?”

FA Commenters: “No. Why?”

Brass Orchid said earlier, “GoComics is very light on comments this morning. Have all the saviors of humanity gone off on a three-day tour?” ………….. Wow. Have things turned the corner. 42+ comments so far. What is this, Luann? (I’m trying to think of another high-volume comment page, a page with comments about the comic strip— and not just a back and forth chat about random stuff like recipes.)

I’ve tried, in the past, to comment on a couple of other pages and practically got shouted off the page for asking a dumb question or saying something even slightly critical. People are more civilized on FA. I guess it might have something to do with the lame standards in place.