Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for June 14, 2017

Hit the sack.

Hello. Would you be willing to accept a collect call from the Froglandia Correctional Institute? Teresa wants to call it in.

Calling it in: perfunctory performance without passion or serious effort. (I hope this just means Teresa needed a day off; it must be hard coming up with a new comic strip each day. )

We could split hairs. Or infinitives.

@RANDY B, infinitives is the more difficult of the two to do with scissors.

Teresa “calling it in” still beats handily many of comics around here that claim to be hilarious and popular. It’s not necessary to list any of these comics by title.

Did anyone read “Pearls Before Swine” yesterday?

http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2017/06/13

In his last panel, Pastis pretty much quoted Teresa’s shtick verbatim. Talk about LAME. I wonder if Pastis reads FA. Probably not, since he doesn’t seem to respond to FA strips that poke even light-hearted fun at Pearls. I read PBS only occasionally because the humor rarely changes day to day. Puns on top of puns.

…artists are not always the best judge of their work(s)….

… some of the greatest rock songs were throw-aways written in five minutes…

…old-joke punchline: ‘pea green soup’

…customer:why that drawing only took you five minutes. and you’re charging me this much?…

…artist: this drawing took me 30 years to be able to draw…

..two in the hand is worth one in the…

Peas on earth, good huile to men.

The fog was like split pea soup, but I didn’t mind. I like the fog. It makes the city look a little less wasted and used up alleyway rum rummy it was. What I didn’t like were the occasional chunks of ham I ran into. But they were part of my job. I didn’t have to like it.

Here’s to your, oops I meant, Shears to your health..

Forgive me, but this is (or once was) a California landmark:

http://www.roadarch.com/14/4/snander5.jpg

I do split shifts.

June 14, 2017 AKA the day Teresa jumped the shark.

@RecipeGuy. I’ve heard about you. You post gratuitous recipes on several pages. Please spare us. Don’t leave, just leave lame comments, and forego the lame recipes. I know you have the right to post freely whatever you have in you, and I have no right to say anything. Please just spare us. It’s a little like having Pavel on a Hellish Food tangent.

…and when the bear comes up to take a pea you kick him in the ice hole. (okay… if you’ve heard that before, you should’ve stopped me.)

Anderson used to split each pea with a hammer and chisel, but they upgraded the factory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26mL_0NpagU

Teresa’s split peas cuts the P in pee !

Split the spinach in Swee’Pea and Popeye, and don’t stop till finished.

When served peas at dinner, don’t ask for seconds!

I like how this comic creates a common vocabulary for people who regularly follow and comment here. Hellish people, is just the latest example of a word or words that now possess an almost inside-joke meaning to me and possibly others. A few months ago, Rotifer had a countdown of phrases created by Teresa. I forget what he called them, but he introduced an example each day until he reached #1. I just realized that that list continues to change as new words and phrases attempt to elbow their way onto it. I had forgotten some of Teresa’s words and phrases until Rotifer compiled them, but they all rang a bell eventually.I’m going to start making a list myself of words and phrases that I like from Frog Applause and share it later like Rotifer did. Thanks for the inspiration, R.

Some people do the splits, by splitting their legs, amazing if they can pick up a pea.

Pea soup fog.

“Black

Eyed

Peas”

Make

Like

A

Pea

And

Split

We all have days when we are just too exhausted, too drained, too preoccupied, or some such, to be at our creative best, and on those occasions willy-nilly “phone it in.” Sister Teresa of the Perpetually Lame is in that respect like us mere mortals of Froglandia, and we must respect her decision to split peas (though in truth she split “split”) rather than split hairs over the propriety of her action (or lack thereof). It’s been that kind of day, fellow froggies….

See now… phoning it is something you do when you don’t have the ambition to show up, and calling it in is something you do when you’re a cop and you have a crime scene to report so they can dispatch backup, forensics, detectives and what-have-you.

So like, if you don’t want to get pinched, when they call it in you make like peas and split, make like a tree and leave, put an egg in your shoe and beat it, get the lead out and step on it, head for the hills, etc., etc..

It is a subtle difference, but for hellish persons, an important one.

Peas shouldn’t run with scissors.