Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 29, 2015

Another bump on the head brings you back.

Define “against you”.I have a friend whose grandmother, a heavy smoker, had Alzheimer’s.They convinced her she’d given up smoking because she couldn’t be entrusted with anything combustible.It worked.A separate problem was that she was convinced everything that was red was hers.Of course, if something was missing and it was red, they knew where to find it.

I’m worried about this woman, and about anyone who is mocked or made fun of because of a disease. Disrespecting a sick or an elderly person is the same to me as child abuse. Elder abuse is real, too. We don’t know the story here, but if her family is doing anything “against her” that doesn’t sound like a loving, supportive family. I don’t know why her clothes are stained. This being a comic strip, maybe that is funny to some people. What I see and feel is her pain. .Something about her not having a head also feels important here. It’s as though she’s not a complete person. This is a bit off topic, but somewhat the same… when women’s bodies are zoomed in on (it’s not hard to imagine which parts), it’s as though they don’t belong to a complete real person, but instead someone who is just “parts”. A piece of this, a piece of that. Objectified. Heavy stuff, I guess. I like to laugh as much as the next person, but some things just aren’t that funny to me.I certainly hope I’m never treated this way by my family.

Not all of Teresa’s cartoons are funny. Some people claim none of them are. I don’t think this cartoon was meant to be funny. Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s my takeaway.

Please someone get her one of these, please!

Realness.

Well, shame on that family! Stick with this family, and we will encourage you, support, and care for you as needed.(Some of us have first-hand experience with this sort of thing….)

Those are not always problems. Those may be undocumented features in a mother of which children will take advantage. If you keep them wound up enough, you can get away with, like, 72% of everything you do because the sheer overload will cause the majority of the transgressions to be forgotten as the system cannot keep up with the demand.In those cases, when the resource demand abates, you will find that they are sharper than one would believe possible.Of course, that means that the family actually is the disease causing the forgetfulness and lack of concentration, which is the usual case in a sitcom.

One really has to also get their Frog Applause by way of the GoComics email distribution.Being offended is a choice one makes.Unless there is an actual assault, of course.

Only love can overcome such profound problems.

Odd isn’t it that we always remember the things people do that cause us pain. Seems that there is some part of the brain that stores all that pain and even though we would like to forget it, its always there.

…what?

FYI – Cartooning is a terminal disease.

I have a “condition” that makes some people treat me like I have a (contagious) “disease”.

Was it little & blue?

To get your comics delivered to your email:Go to My Comics Page / Edit this comics page ;Top right has: Email this? ( YES | NO ) ; click yes.Sometimes, you can miss an update and it comes in email.Sometimes, you get a different comic in email.You never know where you are until you get there.

As I get older I am able to choose my “family” and now have one that just rolls with everything and listens a lot.Funny how I am less inclined to start trouble these days….Lame can be very good. Excitement can be overrated.-——I like how I can choose the Frilly Dress or Mess Dress depending on where I am at the moment.

Out of the blue and into the blackThey give you this but you pay for thatAnd once you’re gone, you can’t come backWhen you’re out of the blue and into the black- Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)- Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps

Katy Perry OWNED Lee Corso on Gameday at Ole Miss last fall.

Sure. But then you lose connection to the imagery. You start out with the clean, happy shiny life and love of youth and find yourself managing a brood of your own spawn who seem to be evil incarnate, to the point where you have good reason to suspect your mind is unwell. It isn’t really dementia in such cases, or even mental illness. It is an appropriate response to conditions. The forgetfulness and lack of concentration are symptomatic of pushing yourself beyond the normal limits of a human being. Life isn’t what it was and you could not have foreseen what it has become. Big families used to be normal, and this was also quite ordinary.To see the humor, you have to have been there.

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As I rode into Tombstone, on a horse his name was Mac…

—Mason Prophet

And finally, the missing caption:“My mother drew strength from her martyr complex”

Although this would seem to be persiflage prohibitive, I can’t help remember a T-shirt I used to have: I’m suffering from a sexually transmitted disease: Children.