Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 14, 2015

And Don’t Forget Our Ever-So

I’ll take the turtle, the knife, the flamingo, and the salt/vinegar chips. Oh, and the pillow on the chair. You can keep the chair itself.

Gladys Ormphby’s antipodeans tingle at the thought of Tyrone F. Horneigh’s Walnettos.

I Love too!!

I’ll just tiptoe quietly by……..

One should buy everything one sees, using nothing for money and taking nothing in return. In that way, one wants for nothing and is able to get by, using only what one finds necessary to have at hand in the particular moment, trading currency for current availability. The remainder is stored and even upgraded, free of charge, until needed.In the meantime, the idea of the thing is always available for use in the realm of ideas.I watch. Therefore, I am.

Relinguish? That is not a word.

“Relinguish” is a perfectly cromulent word.

Teresa – what is it with your Saturday Arkansas fixation? Admit it. You’re secretly jealous of our cool sophistication, understated elegance and reputation for outsized penetraila.

P.S. Glad to see the turtle is okay. I’ve missed feeding it.

Ironic that this piece criticizing consumerism is being used to advertise the new Calvin & Hobbes book.

I am thrilled that Teresa has sent me scurrying to the dictionary. Any strip that makes me learn new words is a friend for life.

@sandboilI agree in principle with your statement, not necessarily the tone of it. Frog Blog was my homepage, it was the very first thing I looked at when I got home from work in the mornings and I sorely miss it. There can be no substitutions accepted, as you said, it had Teresa all over it, in essence it was Teresa.

@Old Wolf, this was one of the first things that got me started on Frog Applause and why it was so missed during Teresa’s absence.

Teresa, you gave me ‘penetralia’…I give you: adytum.

i’m so confused right now

The Blue Tea pot – 2 bucks for tea 2 bucks for you and two bucks for me.

A quick note tosandboil and JasherX and anyone else who might be curious:The Frog Applause Appreciation Society page and the Frog Blog~Style Lameness ( “style” as “in the fashion of” ) forum were created on May 11, 2013 by Frog Applause aficionado LafInLarry to spread the thick and chewy word of LAMEness amongst the pliable masses and to keep the flame of FROG alive in the hearts of the FA faithful (we’ll get to the _Tsking_ of the UnFaithful in a later post).Such sub-forums as Pulling Up Lame… and A Message to Music Lovers , for example, were created by individual FAAS members as their tithe to the memory of the original FROG BLOG (may it’s name forever be in Bold).Over time, primary posting in many of these sub-forums has fallen to founding member Pepelaputr who has attempted to continue the spirit of LAMEness set down by Our Lady Teresa, whose Stamp of Approval is pending and not at all certain.Frog Blog~Style Lameness in no way attempts to supplant the original FROG BLOG in your daily internet diet (ask your doctor before making changes to your Frog Blog routine).If a bitter pill becomes lodged in your craw when viewing Frog Blog~Style Lameness or any of it’s sister forums, discontinue viewing and go somewhere else.- – - FAAS Rants/Excuses, Chapter One, Psalm One. – - -COMMENTS Section – HERE

@INGSOC: I am with you & T on the pyrex! I have some nice old ones. I also have some melamine that looks like those though. {I broke my biggest P. bowl last year!}

@3hour: Repeats. I got a double-post, deleted one, now they are both gone?It was something about “sandboil” not being on the upper-blog, and wtf. Do you see that post? is it only gone for me?

Sorry … I don’t buy that. :-)

Love the Pyrex bowls. I have that same set, though my red bowl is so worn from love that it is now only a faded pinkish glow.

… but don’t eat the yellow snow!!!

… and no penetration without dinner first!!!

No! No! No! A thousand times, no! I will not submit to the baleful hypnosis of you fiendish TV-Mindsucker mask!I buy nothing!I, I, EEYAAAH!

How much for Arkansas?

I allowed myself to be bullied once here.Not again.That witch is below me, i will not acknowledge.

No idea, there was no attribution on the page where I found it.

Rad-ish, I love your Art work, and that link is right up my alley; thanks.

I hate to water the weeds, but I must say, mean people suck. Please get over yourself.

I thought this was about commercials, until I realized she was talking about the Main Stream Media.

Dear Fellow FA Friends:I usually refrain from engaging in intramural FA spats, but may I make a suggestion? I’m not sure that anyone (least of all me) has the market cornered on what the artist thinks, approves, or disapproves. My point is this: I’m not an art critic so I don’t know how to categorize today’s strip or assign it to any specific genre. However, it seems to me to be especially thoughtful, witty and clever, and there are several nods toward pre-hiatus FAs and Frog Blog posts. It is visually compelling to boot. In short there’s a lot in the STRIP ITSELF that lends itself to interpretation, comment and postulation, without engaing in an internecine pissing contest resort to squabbling. What WILL the neighbors think?My Rotty tells me that whitewater junkies can get so focused on the rapids that they sometimes forget to take in the gorgeous scenery that helps create the excitement in the first place. They having a saying to address this: “Don’t forget to look up.”Today’s FA is pretty damn darn cool. So while you’re pounding away at those keyboards …. Don’t forget to look up.

Sincerely,Rotifer’s Mother

Just curious if the tiny trumpet comes with the turtle? Does he play? Is that what our good Lady Teresa has been up to all this time? I can imagine teaching a turtle to trumpet would be a long and arduous process. Thank you for the new word Teresa. They are always a welcome addition. .I don’t know or really care if my opinion counts, but I have enjoyed the Frog Blog style Lameness page. We all miss the blog so very much. No one can replace her style, but I don’t think that’s what was being done. The lameness page has filled a small part of the hole in my heart left by the absence of the real thing. Keep up the good work kids and the naysayers should just try to maybe look the other way and say naymore.

Happy x3 Money bunny! That’s some fancy lettuce you’ve got there. :-)

Here are some of the lyrics to the song Madame Arianne posted:

I nearly missed a rainbowI nearly missed a sunsetI nearly missed a shooting star going by

While lookin’ at my feet, at a crack in the sidewalkAn old tin can by the side of the roadI nearly missed a rainbowI nearly missed a sunsetI nearly missed a shooting star going by

While studying a brand new hole in my sneakerAnd finding a quarter and an old bus tokenI nearly missed a rainbowI nearly missed a sunsetI nearly missed a shooting star going by

Looking down at the ground means you know where you’re goingNo head up in the clouds to lead you astrayBut you can’t ever have any kind of dream that way

Lovely, just lovely! I think that deserves a free year’s supply.

Oh dear! I just heard in my head how that last line could sound. Please insert a " : ) " after “pal”, and a " ; ) " after “The check is in the mail.” Tone can be so tricky in text. (I’m just a soul whose intentions are good…)

The Sheep Look Up is a science fiction novel by British author John Brunner, first published in 1972.