Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for June 29, 2012

“And that soggy potato chip hardly looks soggy at all!”

Them that can, does. Them that can’t, criticizes.

It’s a case of the bland leading the bland !

Re Blog: SWING BED Too much swinging and they’re going to fly out the window.

Bland and aimless is a lot more commercially successful. Just turn on your TV.

Sounds like both my parents.

Good to see you back. Have missed your wry commentary

Either follow up or shut up, Dad!If you just leave it there, your criticism will be nothing but hurtful.

That 1974 VW 360° CAMPING TRAILER on the blog has got to be one of the coolest, yet most amazingly bad, ideas I’ve seen in quite a while. I especially like how the driver has no view of what’s behind the camper when he’s pushing it backwards.

Re Blog:

I could never bring myself to buy from a store called “Hinky-Dinky”. It’s bad enough asking for a “Snickers” (originally Marathon in the UK).-———————And shouldn’t that be “The UNLUCKY Pork Store”?

Don’t sugar coat it dad, how do your really feel?

Hinky Dinky was always Pinky Stinky or something like that.

Unlike your puke green shirt, Pop.

" .. also your text balloons are shapeless and emit no real sense of drama. Next time, try using more elephants."See, that’s constructive criticism.

Looks like a scene from my childhood.

Actually, some times she’s RIGHT on. She swings for the fences a LOT. And I have had enough of feminine comment on my drawing. I wouldn’t even dare. I’d protect you from a tyrannosaurus…distracting it hopelessly if necessary…but I don’t draw.

The thing about soggy potato chips is, there’s always some dip.

As Wikipedia puts it:“Regarding physics, Pauli was famously a perfectionist. This extended not just to his own work, but also to the work of his colleagues. As a result, he became known in the physics community as the “conscience of physics,” the critic to whom his colleagues were accountable. He could be scathing in his dismissal of any theory he found lacking, often labelling it ganz falsch, utterly wrong.

However, this was not his most severe criticism, which he reserved for theories or theses so unclearly presented as to be untestable or unevaluatable and, thus, not properly belonging within the realm of science, even though posing as such. They were worse than wrong because they could not be proven wrong. Famously, he once said of such an unclear paper: Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch! “Not only is it not right, it’s not even wrong!”"

Gil: I would like you to read my novel and get your opinion. Ernest Hemingway: I hate it. Gil: You haven’t even read it yet. Ernest Hemingway: If it’s bad, I’ll hate it. If it’s good, then I’ll be envious and hate it even more. You don’t want the opinion of another writer. - from Midnight in Paris

I find today’s strip profoundly depressing. When I was a child my parents condemned my efforts with indifference … I was to later learn that they lacked both knowledge and passion for art.

Love the grammatical bar jokes! (I confess, I have fallen behind in keeping up with Frog Blog).

Dad. AKA..Robber-of-the-self-esteem. Waytago!

If I had ignored everything my parents told me and done the exact opposite of every piece of advice they gave me, my life would have turned out incredibly better. Unfortunately, I believed that being my parents, they knew what they were doing.

But then I click over to the Frog Blog, see pictures of Bettie Page, and know that life is not all misery. Thank you, Teresa.

Boy oh boy! Its a good thing it wasn’t aimless and bland!

FA, FB, Teresa’s Computer Problems—2:15 AM Central: no Saturday FA, but there are a number of blog postings since Teresa’s “heads up” just before midnight….

Teresa, sorry to hear about your computer problems. I can only imagine how frustrating it is for you. Especially, when you have the pressures of putting out FA and the FA Blog on a daily basis.We all appreciate your wit and hard work. Hang in there. We are all cheering for you.

Thanks for the Paul Auster quote … its good to be aware of our limitations.

…and i thought it was gocomics gremlins…hope to see the regular lame stuff soon.

Would my comment be the height of follyIf I ask, is the Llamas’ name Dolly?

Teresa, could you give any details on the problems you’re having with the computer? Maybe someone here would know how to fix it if they knew which error messages you’re getting.