Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 21, 2017

A nice thing to engrave on that cowbell would be “Rest in Peace, Jerry Lewis.”

You call that cowbell large? Babe the Blue Ox (Paul Bunyan) had a bigger one!

The cow folk were truly amazed, and the devil laid a golden cowbell at his feet.

Be proud of your accomplishments, no matter how abstruse.

When he engraved an inspirational message, he won the Cowbell Prize for Literature.

He has been picked on by those that had moved on to much bigger and better things..

Needs more cowbell!

To Bossy, my best friend…

Bell that size should have a bas relief, not an engraving.

Where’s the beef…old Wendy’s commercial.

Show me the clapper or it’s not a bell.

Must be a Miss. State grad. (that’s a little SEC inside joke).

Looks like a Liberty Cowbell.

Take it from me: you do not want to be on the other end of this cow.

I suspect the truth is that there isn’t much competition in the “engraving large cowbells” field.

But that’s okay! Do not be deterred from your calling, no matter how rarefied.

Do I hear a giant cowbell clanking? Well, shucks, just call me Quasimodo II and point me to Esmeralda, the farmer’s daughter-milkmaid and dreamscape gypsy dancer. —Played by the late Elena Verdugo….