Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 16, 2010

And yer dog just left on his rocket!

That’s exactly what I always say.

Google Language Tools says this translates as “My socks do not fit together.”

It’s Finnish, apparently.

I’d figured it was Russian.

Kalidasa. Shanti, shanti, shanti.

Did Frog Applause just jump the shark?

WHAT?!!

margueritem… I think that’s a little demon in that rocket.

Now we know where the single socks are going.

I recognized it as Finnish right away. Finnish is not an Indo-European language - it’s more closely related to Asian languages. A more colloquial translation is simply *”My socks don’t match.”

”A woman told me my socks didn’t match. I said, ‘Yes they do - I go by thickness’”.

– Stephen Wright

The Finns can sure have Vesa Toskala back.

I couldn’t write a Haiku if my life depended on it, so here is a limerick that sucks instead:

There once was a clowndigger named Vlad. I told him his mom sews socks that don’t match and smell bad. He reached for his gun. I started to run. Dang, I need help from my dad.

There’s a rocket in my pocket….

Vlad was being bad. Teresa reached for the brush…. All is better now.

Vlad’s a bodyguard. Such a lonely existence. he lives for service.

Vlad the deep

Limpid smirk of stone Hints at nougat heart. Rough surface Covers poet’s soul.

Dark Side of the Frog?

P.S. Vlad scares me. Should be the end of this verse (bass ackwards today)

Teresa, I feel tongue tied on this one.

”Missing sailor found inside shark off Jaws Beach”

Here

Gah! I can’t believe I miscounted the syllables yesterday. That’s what I get for writing Haikus just before bed.

Nairebis blows count. Vlad’s neck quivers in anger. Whipping boy feels lash.

I see Sandy has found a new gig now that Little Orphan Annie is history.

This Irish Fly can’t count syllables either.

vlad does what it takes

to keep our cartoonists safe

vlad, where is your neck?

What was the name of that little dog that proved the superiority of the Soviets?

coltish1… nice! wish i could put things together like that!

I laika that

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2367681.stm

“Vlad, 5:30 AM”

The cold blue glow of Security monitors. Cheerios and milk.

Vlad, scantily clad Bad Vlad, on the Finnish shad Vlad is raving mad

Rocket dog so sad Laika on the launching pad Vlad is deadbeat dad

there once was a sailor from Nantucket………

Mug Shot

Thirty-two inch neck, A Mona Lisa smile…NOT! Vlad the Pussycat.

I like Coltish 1’s haiku the best. I think he captured the real Vlad.

The soul and the counting ability of a poet.

why vlad so stolid? upside down turn grimace maw words you bring make joy!

Are those firefighters wearing “shoes for industry” or sensible shoes? Certainly not for firefighting, Unless one is asking NIck Danger, 3rd Eye.

i love love love love love the fact that mr and mrs are only wearing shoes!!

grapfhics, remember not to eat with your hands - use your entrenching tool (see here for another F.T. reference today)

Lewreader, I think that was Laika.

Nairebis said, about 9 hours ago: “Gah! I can’t believe I miscounted the syllables yesterday.” A haiku is more than just a syllable count. It has another structure - the first two lines are supposed to set up an image that is resolved by the third, kind of like a riddle, as in:

*Oh, I ate them all! And oh! What a stomachache! Stolen green apples.*

Hyva Suomi!

I agree, coltish 1 wins the Haiku throw-down.

Todays strip reminds me of two things. One being that yesterday I saw a dolphin riding in a pickup truck, pulled over at a convenience store, and no he was not driving or drinking a big gulp. Some Marine biologists had found it washed up on the beach and were taking it in for study.

Second thing is an interesting bit of new science I heard last night that a baby cannot be born in space as a fetus needs gravity to gestate properly and would naturally abort without it.

a yellow one and a green one!

here’s mine, late as always - i work - but for vlad i force a few brain cells to work

mr frankenstein stone cold massive mean heart made of roses

and while you might have a runaway pancake, there’s always: http://www.amazon.com/Latke-Who-Couldnt-Stop-Screaming/dp/1932416870

Well, I can’t be two places at once Runar. or can I? Op Cit.

BTW to g mcgrath: They are wearing shoes but those typical gocomics readers donated the skivvies for a good cause: http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=68781.

grapfhics, only if you’re not anywhere at all. I won’t crush that dwarf if you hand me the pliers. It’s time for “Howl of the Wolf Movie” I’ll be watching it with Bottles.

runar: I got the riddle at the bottom of your post. Those messed up letters were ‘bugging’ me. Finally I put on my glasses. Now I have a headache.

*Oh, I ate them all!

And oh! What a stomachache!

Stolen green apples