Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 22, 2018

Let them get cold before you remarry.

We’re dying to know how you get consent.

Online corpse dating services are dead

Online corpse dating services are dead

I promise to love, honour, and decay

It’s less paperwork than a will. The French love elegant solutions to inconvenient problems.

Widow’s weeds as a wedding gown … I’m adding this to a long list of things so that one day I’ll be able to say, “Now I’ve seen everything.”

Is Yvette smiling because she doesn’t have to have a husband around and underfoot?

Shes a beautiful woman, for the shape that she’s in.

She should posthumously marry Chuck Will — a quite sincerely lame joke for any other birders here.

Technically, the marriage is backdated to the day before the “groom” died.

Necrogamy would be ever so much more elegant if there weren’t so many steps involving high officialdom to getting it done. Since it’s the gelt she’s really after, I guess plain old necrophilia is a non-starter? Maybe her family would object?

This is a strong argument for independent women. France is so old-fashioned in surprising ways!

The Merry Widow Waltz was in heavy rotation during the reception.

Viva la nécrogamie… also sounds like something a woman might say when she’s suffering from dead leg syndrome.

Enjoy your (un)life (un)together, un(alone)..