Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 11, 2022

The elevators are to the right.

…aaah, it’s biting reader commenting…

…if not a punch line…

…a punch bowl…

…a good old fashioned blood letting…

…looks like the beginning of a great James Rollins book…

…straight from the horses horse mouth…

…the odds are 81-1 that you’d survive…

…is this an Adam Samberg- Justin Timberlake box?…

…or are you just glad to see me…

…I’m not here to read…

…I’m only here for the pictures…

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…when I read Frog Applause all my blood rushes away from my head, anyway…

…famous horse joke punchlines…

…why the long face?…

…the others came in at 12: 45…

…a zebra…

…nightmares…

…you can say Frog Applause without app…

Good to the last drop, it’s Frog Applause in your cup.

They’re called blackflies, and I get drained every year.

The punchline is your bloodless corpse with its hand still on the keyboard, finger perched over the “enter” button, and the comment you’d been typing on “For Better or For Worse” forever unsubmitted.

Reminds me of the “Dark Side of the Horse” strip that GC also carries!!

Since when do Frogs need a punchline to Applaud?

Ah, Mr. Summerhorse has arrive early.

Does the box say “don’t open til Christmas”? If not, put in a stainless steel garbage can and shut the lid…

Wait for winter to open it, outside in the yard, hoping the sucker insects will be dead by then from lack of blood….

Stand back because a few may have survived from biting their fellow insects…

In need of a can? Run to the Froglandia Bathmat Factory for all supplies needed….a huge and bigly can is on display now….as we speak….Hamberglers served to the first 50 customers…served with a Pepsi, not Coke…

Thank you, Mr. Nebula. Just put them down anywhere. Anywhere outside.

Better than what Prometheus gave Pandora.

Schrodinger’s paradox: There is and is not a punchline in the box…

I am the satisfied owner of an anti-exanguinating, exterminating insect trap device, complete with UV lights AND a suction fan that’s advertised as follows: “Attracts, Traps, and Kills Mosquitoes and other insects, including Biting Flies, Wasps, Moths, Stink Bugs, No-see-ums and more!” (also written in Spanish) …

… haven’t seen a No-see-um yet, but I remain confident and ready to RuMbLe …!

The opening statement is the punchline. Soon we may move to fractions-of-a-panel comics as methods become ever more streamlined.

A good old fashioned bloodletting! Teresa is always looking out for us. I hope she comes through with that trepanning she has been promising, my melon has been under an awe full lot of pressure lately.

Delivery, Delivery.

I tell you what, fellow Froglandians. Let’s keep the lid on this, okay? Wouldn’t want to sully the reputation of our fair fictional country by leaving a corps of dried-up ex-readers lying around would we? No corpse corps!

You know, I was okay with the instant video ads for MLB games. Where they put ads targeted to the viewers on the wall spaces around the field, instead of the ones that are really there, I mean. But when they started doing it for other TV, it started to get a bit weird. Like when you’re watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, and he goes into the monolith and says, “My God, it’s full of Mini-Wheats”. That’s just too much product placement, isn’t it?

I’m a little blurry.

What’s this about draining my sangria supply?

…of course they will eat you alive…

…they’re horse flies…

…horse flies with hoarse throats…

…Mr. Ed version 2022…

…hoarse Horace gets her oats…

…Horace Wimp…

…Horace Wimp…

…Horace Wimp…

…was built like a horse…

…and became brain dead at the sight of a girl…

…the Nays have it…

…and gee the old LaSalle ran great…

…But where are those good old-fashioned values….

…that we used to rely?…

…those were the days…

…Horace Wimp…

…Horace Wimp…

…Horace Wimp…

“I don’t think I could pony up for horsing around.” said the little boy who lives in the lame.