Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 16, 2020

…I’ll never understand modern art…

…ghost pain…

…this FA is for the birds…

…don’t worry, it’ll grow back…

…robots…

…it had to be robots…

…understatement of the decade…

…I think I bought a car from this guy…

… Hannibal Lecter the lecturer…

…wow! The housing shortage in Japan is real…

…go comics overlords: that’s dangerously close to being drawn and quartered…

Did you at least bring the birdseed? HEY! that hurts!

“Yes, there’s a ghost of a chance”, he said disarmingly.

I don’t think he’s getting all of it.

It’s very a-wristing. You’ve got to hand it to him. It’s what happens with digital processing.

You may feel a slight pinch.

Goose had to learn his lesson one way or another.

i said doctor, doctor, mr. md., can you tell me what’s ailing me

Another miracle of modern medicine that’s for the birds.

It’s only a flesh wound.

do you feel the pain?

Phantom pain. It’s a scourge.

Behold … the autopsy of understatement …

what’s for supper …?

Arm wrestling is in the wrist.

Those tiny hummingbird estates implanted in my left shoulder lead me to think this may not be the last of surgeries, you fiendish churl! What’s left of my left may not long be left!

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly go clean to the bone.”

Where are the ethical suicide parlors? They were supposed to be on every street corner by now.