Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 30, 2020

Ground squirrels are known to turn cannibal if there is nothing else to eat. It’s for the good of the collective, you know!

‘since 2öö9’? Sure it isn’t ‘since 2øø9’? O.o :-P

…now, how an I ever going to replace this in my morning?….

…I am a nervous cheek chewer…

….been my whole life…

…my sister and brother used to have to same habit…

…I do RIP off bits of skin…

…does that make me some kind of cannibal?….

…autosarcophagicexpialidocious

… they say lawyers eat their own, but I don’t know…

… Habanero Spam and the Flying Cowgirls…

…now to rent or bi…

The tears just come when they’re called for; they don’t care if you’re happy, sad, or chopping onions.

I enjoy the lucid simplicity of Frog Applause after trying to deal with the dense symbolism of Family Circus.

I always cry happy tears when She name checks Baja Missouri.

The last time I did a rage doodle, armed guards showed up at art class.

Gasp! Poor calf of another udder, ….this sucks! Meanwhile, the cannibal squirrel is munching on the carrot curls, and the owl is on a business trip to check out the swimming arrangements…has anyone seen my sister, screams Gilbert Grape? Tears of joy, tears of sadness…regardless, they’re so salty….don’t drink the tear water.

Another veritable collage of LAME that piques the WTF out of of us all …! ……….CaFfEiNe (fortified)……….

Squeeze the main frame of a non smooth brain lightly with each bath mat definition.

Crying over the fact that they are getting rid of you for no reason.

Well, if it isn’t my udder from anudder mudder. Go nuts.

My old manshirt was Polo but had the mysterious loop in back. Meanwhile, the Phlegmatics sounds like a good name for a punk band, especially if they dress up in manskirts and rage-dawdle onstage. If the audience is crying from laugher, does that count as happy tears?

I’ve always enjoyed watching swimming owls.

All tears are tears of joy. Some of them just show up early.

I don’t have a printable comment today, so I will just say… Viva La Frog!

After a significant amount of festering, I think I have an idea of what happened, or at least the skeleton of a sketch. Because I was goofing around with consensus realities within the finite probabilities of the universe, I expanded toward other instances of the self, or rather, joined probabilities in a sub-quantum state of flux. As of now, I cannot be certain of the outcome. I know that my former awareness now exists in two locations, but not if there is a present awareness being shared. I don’t believe I’m getting current information from the neighboring reality in which I know Violet and met Jolly Old Bob, but it could be in my unconscious, and will stitch itself into my general awareness as I go. How this changes things for me in that reality is also unknown. Do I share the memories of my pleasant life here in Froglandia with that self in that reality? I’m adding these musings to my journal, along with the event along the road between two points, which seems to be where the connection occurred, my becoming unconscious a direct result of the unified existence between me and my sleeping self elsewhere, or back there, or whatever. Parallel realities are confusing for me. I wonder if Violet exists here. I know Jolly Old Bob does, and is likely amused at my situation.

Cannibal Squirrel was, as I recall, among the first intensely graphic horror novels for children. The idea was and still is to expose them to the realities of a Grim World as early as possible (excepting that birth is a traumatic experience, of course).

But my official grape is more exotic than that of Arkanas (anywhere near Arkansas?), being more of a Continental variety. Dink the zinc!

So random, so fluttery, so hyper-cartoonish! Is this the way Froglandia ends?

Dear Fellow Froglandians

I have happy tears news.

GoComics has reconsidered and withdrawn its decision to terminate Frog Applause™!

I would like to take personal credit for this, but in truth I had nothing to do with the reversal. You want know who is entitled to that credit? Everyone of you who wrote, called, commented, messaged and emailed GoComics. THAT is a fact. I’m serious. The grass roots campaign to save FA from GoComics’ memory hole worked.

I’m sure Teresa will express her genuine undying gratitude to everyone who heard her call to arms and responded, but right now she’s employing all the tools she uses to create tomorrow’s FA, which will be a even lamer than “normal.”

(Ha! Never thought I’d use FA and “normal” in the same sentence, but these are strange times)

Could it be? We should ask a portly syndicate person.

Thank you to all of us Lame Ones and to the powers that be at GC.

I was notified GC had canceled my automatic “Premium” upgrade per my complaint/request but nothing was said re F.A.

I will now have to cancel my cancellation as they have pulled the FA rug out from under me, the scamps. Onward and upward, says I.

May the rains replenish Frog Pondia.

Don’t forget to set your evolution back if Trump gets reelected.

Crying tears of Joy! The tears told me so!

Whew …! I’m Croaking here … THAT was just too close …! Good move GC and Andrews McMeel …!!!