Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 21, 2012

Well, one of them trusts you, but what does the other have to say?

Is he a one testicle man?

I’m sure that the punsters will have a ball with this one. Your testicle is a lot more trusting than mine would be, in spite of the excruciating pain.

re: Eat More Cottage Cheese. As WW I food posters go, it doesn’t have much visual appeal. This one is its polar opposite:

http://tinyurl.com/c8mcpyl

America didn’t have food rationing as such during the war, but we were exporting a lot of food to Europe, while dealing with a decrease in the number of farmers (somebody had to go into the army). There was a lot of propaganda to cut down on food consumption and waste, and there were recipes that used substitutes wheat and sugar. Here’s one list of recipes from a 1917 cookbook:

http://tinyurl.com/8qqegqh

Here’s one Australian cookie recipe that’s remarkably good and easy to make:

http://www.anzacbiscuit.net/

Re: I FEEL TORNI’ve had those days, myself !

A hydrocele is a fluid-filled sack in the scrotum. Symptoms: The main symptom is a painless, swollen testicle, which feels like a water balloon. A hydrocele may occur on one or both sides.

Teresa’s gonna get another stern message from the Overlords for this one. Just you wait and see.

Again, for my fans—if any—, back to the 19th c.!

He (or just possibly she) looks like a lunatic. I’d recommend a straitjacket first. Then, a professional chirurgeon can examine his privates and, if necessary, cut.

MY MY GRANDMA WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE….

@INGSOC

Have a great fear of sharp instruments, especially in that area of my anatomy.If hydrocelic fluid develops, will just live with the problem, unless a caring female surgeon first prepares the area with proper massage techniques.

Statistically speaking, the average person in the united states has only one testicle.

Re: Blog (Young Apache Woman)

@Teresa

Incomplete post here.Please include name, address,and phone numberAlso, e-mail address.

I’d heard that ramps gave you very strong garlic-y breath. While hiking in the West Va woods my buddies and I ran into some locals picking ramps for that weekend’s “Ramps Festival.” They showed us how to eat them and said, “They’re not so bad, but they’ll be coming out in a couple of days.” Two days after I got home my wife wondered “Why do you smell funny?”

@Arch Stanton

Take great pride in besting the statistical average with 2!(In need of proper caring massage techniques).

What sadness and perhaps wisdom in that young Cherokee woman’s eyes!

@Arch Stanton

Each a testosterone-producing dynamo.

The Young Apache Woman is Hattie Tom, a Chiricahua Apache of Geronimo’s band; the picture was taken in 1898. The only available information on her is at

http://tinyurl.com/9lz3cnf

where a photograph caption describes her as “a wee papoose at the time of Geronimo’s capture” in 1886. There are two other photographs of her at

http://tinyurl.com/8g6r86u

and

http://tinyurl.com/9xkz7lq

@JohnnyDiego eeeeeeeeeeuuuuuu! as a surgical nurse, I’ve been there, drained that, measured it and helped the doc sew it up ick ick… patients come in with that exact scrinched look on their face and leave feeling much relieved, I guess the pressure gets uncomfortable

Frog Applause is so educational.

i bet you say that to all the girls…

“What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of what it is supposed to be.”at no time in my life did i ever visualize myself caring for my elderly mother as she cared for me as a child.i am less screwed up now than i ever was before.

re “Russian Soldiers With Nurses” on the blog.There’s nothing odd about the reclining soldier; there are quite a few WW I pictures where Russian soldiers do that. They might have wondered why Western soldiers seemed so stiff and formal when they posed.

It looks like a studio shot, with a painted backdrop; you can see the line where the background meets the floor.

He doesn’t seem very teste.

Hattie Tom? How about Hottie Tom.

Oh nuts!!!

OK. I’m sorry for posting another artist’s comic here but the last XKCD was an incredible piece of work. It must have taken ages to make. Took me most of a day just to explore it all. I just wanted to share it with my favorite community.

Original comic: Click and Drag.

Or one you can zoom in and out of: Explorable Map

RE: Blog – Jack Dempsey … I found this online …-Name: Nonpareil Jack DempseyBirth Name: John Edward KellyBorn: 1862-12-15Birthplace: Curran, IrelandDied: 1895-11-02 (Age:32)Nationality: IrishHometown: Williamsburg, New York, USA-

From the May 20, 1909 Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, WA):JACK DEMPSEY was a great fighter, as great a ring general and as heady a fighter as ever lived. He won more than one contest when he was whipped, simply because he used brains and outgeneraled the other fellow. Did you know that his name was Kelly, and not Dempsey, at all? Well, it was. I know a lot of people will be surprised at that, but I know what I am talking about. And that will surprise a lot of people. The name Dempsey will live as long as they make boxing gloves, but to think that wasn’t really his name—yes, that is a surprise. He switched one Irish name for another.-As it turns out, the “Jack Dempsey” name would be adopted by countless boxers to come afterwardThe Jack Dempsey I knew about before Teresa posted the image of this one was born in Colorado in 1895 and died in 1983. Thanks, Teresa. I learned something today … thanks to you.

re blog: Alice in Wonderland doorknob…really, Alice? not Beauty and The Beast? possibly both? tired old brain can’t remember things properly anymore (dread senior disease CRS – can’t remember stuff)

RE: Blog – “Why were the Germans in Africa?” -Africa during WWII – German forces were dispatched to reinforce the Italian African army and to halt losses; however, after Erwin Rommell disobeyed orders and attacked, resulting in a series of victories, much of Italy’s lost territory in north Africa was returned. The back and forth fighting during the Western Desert Campaign, including a number of great victories, would lead some German commanders to have grandiose dreams of the capture of the Suez canal and a march through the Middle East striking into southern Russia. The fighting in this theatre lasted from 10 June 1940, when Italy entered World War II on the side of Germany, until 2 May 1945 when all Axis forces in Italy surrendered at the end of World War II in Europe.

Both the allies and the Axis had colonial interests in Africa during the time of WWII.