Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 04, 2023

I wanted to turn over a new leaf but inadequate pagination meant that I kept losing my place.

My manager Paige, is on a paigenation of when rent is due. This is our local Pheasant’s Forever pagination, and the dates when you bag a cocka pheasant you also find rent is due.

Pagination is the first step in a young man’s journey, followed by squirination, and culminating in the greatest honor of all: knightination.

Now who hasn’t asked themselves that very question?

This is a clever sentence – pagination.

Thank you Teresa!

I paginate all my cartoons so I read them in sequence….

As my mother was an avid reader, we did not celebrate birthdays in our household. We had pagination days. How I dreaded them.

The cleverness should not be immediately apparent, but should reveal itself only to exhaustive textual analysis. For example, “The pagination standard used in my essay is in no way remarkable”. Oh, the subtlety!

p again nation?

Cleverness is overrated. So is pagination. With modern documents, pagination is meaningless, and dependent upon the size of the screen on which one is reading. This was one of the first things discovered when variable size text boxes were created. Next Page was meaningless when a full page was determined by the available viewing area. Enumeration of pages became useless. It was retained in standardized document, or Portable Document Format (PDF) protocols. It was also standardized in word editor programs, to allow one to read, view and print properly paginated documents. Documents are now produced in multiple formats, for multiple devices. A laptop user may see a different document than a desktop user, and both of those, different from a smartphone user.

I clicked on the icon to change the font size on the book I was reading, but the pagination went goofy. The pagination in the index turned into Devanagari script. Apparently my tablet had had enough of my tomfoolery.

I refuse to do this assignment. How about that?

I’ll read other people’s sentences. Does that count?

Disordered pagination is the soul of inspiration.

Tried to think up something clever but, sigh… I have no pagination.

HELP ❗️ I’m having an O.C.D. attack and all this pagination is killing me …!

( where’s the app for that? )

I like the look of today’s comic, Teresa!

Syllabication, it’s sweeping the pagination…

One of the curses of having a dyslexic editor is that her pagination cannot be counted on.

The stagination of my imagination in the face of pagination inspiration will surely give my lame inflation.

I thought bathmats grew on trees.

It shouldn’t be that hard! For example, pagination is important to accurate citation of a source. But maybe the key word in your statement of perplexity was “clever.” I admit to having cited a rather bland example. I am but a bear of little brain, as Pooh put it; in fact, acutely lame-brained!

P.S. As requested, visited Mr. Scott’s two strips. Get well soon, Cartoonist-Guy!