Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 27, 2017

She’s really needling the clown who said that.

I take pride in my bad citizenship … which includes my acme of selfishness, and my hardened moral nature.

I am suggesting more R&R,

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Rock and Roll.

’m not sure what kind of facial rash she has, but it looks painful and seems to require the latest in technological remedies.

Beaver shot Wally…ha ha ha ha:-)

Now Wally is shooting Beaver.

Don’t say yes to a telephone phishing scammer… He can record that answer and then play it back in an unauthorized place!

Married people should therefore surrounded themselves with uncounted children, so that there is no restriction in the number of children among them. The source of the children doesn’t really matter.

It’s true. I’ve heard so many things said by people who are entirely serious and really believe what they are saying, that something like this doesn’t even move the needle.

Some people believe we carry seeds in our bodies that count as children

Shouldn’t, “in the main”, be separated from the rest of the sentence by commas?

Or didn’t the original author want to interrupt the flow?

Come to think of it, this could have been a series of shorter sentences.

It did not need to be a single run on sentence.

The original author seems to have not wanted to interrupt the flow of the single run on sentence, that should really have been a series of shorter sentences regarding the reproductive habits of others over which control is sought, by separating the qualifying phrase, “in the main”, from the rest of the sentence by commas.

That old 1950’s stuff. I have less than no nostalgia for that time.

That’s the first time I’ve seen that part of male anatomy referred to as “moral nature.”

 

Rotifer’s New,

Mix & Match …

►Improved(!) FA Vocabulary List◄ 

married moral mind motive

selfish in selfishness

hardened acme citizenship

a social state of evil nature people

bad of omen*

* Vlad speak

What about unmarried people?

“It is the duty of science and hygiene to step in, in this matter, and before it is too late. France stands out as the worst example of the common practice of the voluntary restriction of families…”

See? It’s France, not Froglandia.

They are two different things.

Froglandia is rife with tadpoles, science and hygiene!

I always thought that raising children in poverty was a selfish thing to do.

Published 1907, by Thomas Smith Clouston, “The Hygiene of Mind.” It still has that 19th century turn of phrase. The industrial revolution hath wrought it’s evil work in drawing women out of the home and we’ve been trying to push them back in ever since.

Before the industrial revolution children and marriage were business and retirement income. After, you didn’t need as many. But the moral back-constructs remain. So, selfishness is not the issue, moralizing is.

https://books.google.com/books?id=4OIOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&ots=FL_hquQY8Q&sig=1o3ovLz4JLTqABVsTEfucMfWaKs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI4KGbtvjVAhUmqVQKHY8dBQkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

The over-tattooed (unless Maori, which I doubt) cyborg female may blow a brain-gasket trying to comprehend human notions of morality. Such is (artificial) life.

They (it’s always “they”) are saying that machines are on the verge of taking over pretty much all heretofore human functions, not excluding procreation. Life will be short, nasty, and dull under SkyNet.

I’ll be back….

Some folks believe it’s their God-given duty to multiply and replenish the Earth, Mars, and half of Jupiter.

The arm may either move clockwise or counter clockwise, yet the rating for GoComics™ is established exactly where the arm is currently set..

Fantastic Planet (1973) trailer • https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E

As usual, another day of engaging commentary. Getting to the party late might be a good excuse, but even if I was the first commenter, I wouldn’t be able to come up with the witty stuff most of you do. I love this comic for making me think and for reading what it makes other people think, too.