Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 13, 2017

Finally! It’s late but up.

“We’re too busy.” That’s what all the milliners say.

Isn’t this the lady with the supernumerary ipple?

I guess you two could always try again some other time..

This isn’t the first time Teresa has used supernumerary heads. Those weird-looking growths (Mick and Ick??) and another FA character that I’ve forgotten. Or maybe that was a Janus-faced character? I’m not up for hunting the archive right now.

That’s not very nice, milliner. Supernumerary heads celebrate Mother’s Day, too.

Glad to see that goComics is back up. Has anything changed for the better? (I can hope, can’t I?)

Where is everybody? Wake up!

late Middle English (originally in the sense ‘native of Milan,’ later ‘a vendor of fancy goods from Milan’): from Milan + -er1. First used in 1530.

Mad hatter disease, or mad hatter syndrome, was an occupational disease among hatmakers, caused by chronic mercury poisoning. It affected those whose felting work involved prolonged exposure to mercury vapors. The neurotoxic effects included tremor and the pathological shyness and irritability characteristic of erethism.

Erethism is due to mercury poisoning. Mercury is an element that is found all over the earth in soil, rocks, and water. People who get erethism are usually exposed to jobs that have something to do with these elements, such as construction. People who work in factory jobs tend to have a higher chance of getting erethism. The problem with mercury is that if humans are exposed to any of the forms of mercury, depending on the amount (dose), route (ingestion, skin contact, inhalation), duration (time) of exposure, it can be toxic. Some elemental and chemical forms of mercury (vapor, methylmercury, inorganic mercury) are more toxic than other forms. The human fetus and medically compromised people (for example, patients with lung or kidney problems) are the most susceptible to the toxic effects of mercury.

“The man affected is easily upset and embarrassed, loses all joy in life and lives in constant fear of being dismissed from his job. He has a sense of timidity and may lose self control before visitors. Thus, if one stops to watch such a man in a factory, he will sometimes throw down his tools and turn in anger on the intruder, saying he cannot work if watched. Occasionally a man is obliged to give up work because he can no longer take orders without losing his temper or, if he is a foreman, because he has no patience with men under him. Drowsiness, depression, loss of memory and insomnia may occur, but hallucinations, delusions and mania are rare.The most characteristic symptom, though it is seldom the first to appear, is mercurial tremor. It is neither as fine nor as regular as that of hyperthyroidism. It may be interrupted every few minutes by coarse jerky movements. It usually begins in the fingers, but the eyelids, lips and tongue are affected early. As it progresses it passes to the arms and legs, so that it becomes very difficult for a man to walk about the workshop, and he may have to be guided to his bench. At this stage the condition is so obvious that it is known to the layman as “hatter’s shakes.”

“”Buckell et al, Chronic Mercury Poisoning (1946

Use of inorganic mercury in the form of mercuric nitrate to treat the fur of small animals for the manufacture of felt hats seems to have begun in 17th-century France and from there spread to England by the end of the century with the Huguenots. By the Victorian era the hatters’ condition had become proverbial, as reflected in popular expressions like “mad as a hatter” and “hatters’ shakes”. Similar phenomena had been described in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1829. In France, the National Academy of Medicine described the health hazards in 1869, and in 1898 a law was passed to protect hatmakers from the risks of mercury exposure. In Britain, mercury poisoning among hatters had become a rarity by the turn of the 20th century. In the United States, where the occupational illness was thoroughly described in New Jersey in 1860, the practice continued until 1941; mercury poisoning in the hatmaking industries of Danbury, Connecticut gave rise to the expression “Danbury shakes”. Hatmakers in Tuscany, Italy, were also affected and exposed workers received financial compensation.

I guess I got a little carried away with the wiki stuff. I thought it was interesting enough to pass along.

She’ll get an earful about that!

Try the doll shop.

They may already have something acceptable in your size.

A person has to only imagine how the blood flow process measures to the brains…putting the heads together I am reasonable sure results can be obtained…. After all, two heads are better than one..kooookie shooobe

One always has to ask… which one is parasitic?

Super Nun, she flies through the air at the speed of Sally Fields.

Stick a sock on it.

The high bit on the chairs is now at $51.

That put me out of the bidding.

BUT!

The boss is going to chip in $50 herself. That answers the conundrum of what to do with the extra chairs.

I’ll up my part to $50, bid at the last minute, and if we win i’ll split the take/cost with her.

Well, then the doll milliner’s just down the street. Try there, my dear.

Wardrobe Malfunctions

Anyway, the last full Moon was Wednesday, so what gives Sister?

It’s the little things that count.

Our newspaper was so small that they couldn’t afford a capybara, so they ran Cappy Dick.

An individual may put their two heads together to figure out a way, multiple dandruff happens..

Touched…

… every…

… tomato.

It seems clear enough that the milliner is openly prejudiced against two-headed ladies, perhaps thinking that to serve them would reflect ill upon her shop and lead to a decrease of trade! Shameful, but a sign of the times, I tell you. Why, who knows (and forgive me for even saying this), there may even come a time when both ladies and gentlemen will deign to be seen in public hatless! Hatless! Oh, the shame! O tempora! O, mores!

Finally!

After that Super Lame GoComics “maintenance” malarky (why can’t that do that nonsense overnight like SANE people?), and my internet “provider” jacking with my signal all day I can finally log-on to Frog Applause which is taking forever to load, wait, what’s that indicator?360 COOKIES??!!!

Whhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttttttttttt?