Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 18, 2012

Yeah, that’s it, it was the emergency help phone that made me do it!

So, if I’m reading this rightly, are we “down on Teresa”? Does this elevator have a fan, please? Old elevator-music with sabotaged lyrics and unpleasant odors are enough to make one reach for the

@Teresa- How cruel. After reading the latest FA, I dutifully clicked the chicken to check the latest blog update, only to be informed by Blogger that I am no longer invited to do so. Imagine my embarrassment and heartbreak! Please say that this is merely a time-out, and not a permanent banishment! I don’t think I did anything to deserve this.

Oh boy. The Google Blogger overlords have seen fit to mess with Teresa’s world. This is what I get when I attempt to access Frog Blog:

This blog is open to invited readers onlyhttp://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/

It doesn’t look like you have been invited to read this blog. If you think this is a mistake, you might want to contact the blog author and request an invitation.

This blog is open to invited readers onlyhttp://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/ It doesn’t look like you have been invited to read this blog. If you think this is a mistake, you might want to contact the blog author and request an invitation.

Very mysterious, guys. The message I got said something to the effect “you must sign in with your Blogger account”; I did that and got redirected to another page that said "sorry, the page you requested does not exist’; but there was upon it a hotlink to “the blog homepage” which took me to Frog Blog! Yay! Then, after i logged out, I tried to Cluck Cluck again and, behold!, I went straight to the Frog Blog! —It’s all very strange….

and yet, for me, no problem whatsoever…when usually all manner of things go awry. maybe today is the day I should buy a lottery ticket, or two

Might Teresa’s blogspot account have been hacked? She said in the blog yesterday that there was what she thought was a mirror of her blog site with the “.nl” suffix, which is the Netherlands url suffix. They have just as many hackers there as they do in Russia and China. Or she might just be messing with the preferences menu.

Elvators, bidet in the neighborhood???? Must be Manhatten.

Re. Frog Blog

I use firefox, and have had no problems clicking the chicken.

Re: DIZZY GILLESPIEI remember the first time I met Dizzy. I was in college, and he played a concert date there. I had the opportunity to speak to him, afterwards. What an incredibly gracious man ! Two things always amazed me ( aside from his incredibly great jazz ) was the shape of his horn and how he could expand his cheeks. Obviously, from the picture, I wasn’t the only one.

No problem accessing Frog Blog this morning – I’m about to clear all my cookies and see if that makes a difference. One problem understanding that linked SEO article is that it’s written in hideous English by someone from India; the thing to remember about Panda is that it was designed to penalize low-quality sites with worthless content – Frog Blog would likely see no impact at all from it. Penguin was targeted at black-hat SEO tactics like keyword stuffing, and a few other things like that – since Frog Blog doesn’t do that either, I’m thinking that the failure to crawl is not related to either of these two updates.

Keyword stuffing? These people are obviously from another planet.

except for the normal (for me) delay when scrolling down,i have no problem with the blog.witch is a pleasant change from the nightmare that gocomics became for me.i had to drop mu Pro status to fix my problem.

all bible thumping sermonizers look like they have muppet arms.to me they seem to have muppet heads as well.

even so, those flailing bible thumping arms make me want to DANCE!!!

@3hourtour…. the great thing about jazz is they are just making it up as they go along! riffing on the original, sometimes I get lost the farther way out the get, tho. Go, Hep Cat!

For some reason, I really liked this FA. No trouble with the blog. September 23rd will be a sad day – last day of Cul-de-Sac. Darn Parkinson’s! Best of luck to Richard Thompson in his retirement.

and I really like jazz..except it seems to me that they are just making it up as they go along…>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>So is Frog Applause !

My favorite quote from the play Inherit The Wind has the Clarence Darrow-like character calling the hypocritical sermonizers : " …a bunch of barnum-bunkum , bible-beating bastards…"

Readers: Do not be alarmed……..but word has it that a herd of pandas and penquins sitejacked the blog and absconded to the Netherlands with it. They may or may not have taken Teresa with them. We’ve assigned a crew, Stupidity and Malice, to the case and will report back when we have further updates. …Please be patient.

RE: Blog – Very sad to learn about Richard Thompson. The guy is very creative and a great cartoonist.

Several years ago I worked as an art director for a magazine publisher who had second floor offices just above a well traveled street corner. From 10 am ‘til 3 pm every day a “street” preacher stood on that corner with a bible in his hand, shouting his relentless sermon. What I remember most is that he seemed to be obsessed with the end of time. The man had the best lungs I’ve ever witnessed and his message invaded every nook and cranny of our floor. It was nearly impossible to have a conversation or productive meeting. We tried to persuade him to move to another corner … no dice. After several complaints to the city he was finally convinced by a loud noise charge … he might have been fined, I don’t know, but he did remove himself to a corner a couple of blocks away.

Interesting. Never noticed the address of the Frog Blog until the recent discussion about .nl. I get Frog Blog at http://obituarytypo.blogspot.ca/ – which, considering I live in Canada is not a surprise. If I try to access the .com directly I get redirected to .ca. Fun stuff this mirroring.

If I may come out of “lurk” for this one…waves hello From everything I’ve read about the blog access here, it seems as if some users are getting a redirected chicken link to the mirrored site that asks them to log in. Is that login screen a valid one for blogspot, or is the mirrored site trying to steal passwords to hijack more blogs? I would (try) to get someone from blogspot on the phone to ask them what’s going on and get the other page taken down.

@Dogsniff

What could possibly more congenial than a cramped elevator and the chance to exchange foul gases with fellow elevator passengers?Thus neutralising the cabbage fart with ever more interesting aromas?

@INGSOC

Your post has reminded me of my pauper status, and the fact that cannot afford dentures, which has ruined my day.Regardless, wish you a merry night as well, with plenty of drinking and carousing,as will be engaging in myself this evening.

@blog: Comicland. Wow. so many titles! The first one I checked dated the pic. Sun Girl starred in a namesake three-issue series cover-dated August to December 1948. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Girl_%28Marvel_Comics%29

RE: Frog Blog. Not sure why, but Paul Klee’s “Cat and Bird” painting reminded me of Willie Nelson’s song, “Always on My Mind”.

Oh No! What happened to Wonder Woman? They stole her Airplane!

I’m still rather new to this strip and never visited the blog before. I still rather live in my own fantasy with my BF of about 40 years. Only now we got together and after my return are now Skyping and wondering just how long we seniors can continue to enjoy.

FROG BLOG re: ButtonIt reminds me of something that happened 6 or 7 years ago:The school in which I teach was built in the mid-seventies. In the room that was originally the front office (and has since been many things; at the time of this story, it was the teachers’ lounge) had a button on the wall marked “Civil Defense.” We had the microwave on a shelf next to it, so everyone would stare at the button and wonder what it did as they waited for their food to heat. (See where this is going, yet?) So, one day, one of the fifth grade teachers pushed it.It set off the fire alarm.The principal came flying out of her office, nearly having a heart attack….

Dizzy got his start with the Cab Calloway Orchestra but was forced to leave when he stabbed Calloway (superficial wound) during an altercation.