Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 01, 2019

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Who are these foul balls? Tweedlepee and Tweedledumper?

Butch and Sundance in one of their many disguises to get away from that posse.

Nicest thing anybody’s ever said to me, really.

You wish you could have my stench.

Another winter pastime in Froglandia is the game of Tadpole. Tadpole is played on an elliptical snow-covered pitch, with a pit in the middle. The pitch is fifteen leaps long, and ten leaps wide. That would be something like sixty yards by forty yards, or fifty-five meters by thirty-seven meters, roughly. And roughly is how the game is played! The center pit is 1 leap in diameter, deepening to knee deep at the center. This is the “pond”. Each team has five “tadpoles”, which are passed in to them from opposing ends of the field by their “Grandfather”. The team must deposit their tadpole in the pond before receiving another. The first team to get all their tadpoles in the pond wins. Each team has 14 members, and each member must defend and advance as needed, though some specialization is expected. In neighborhood games, the number of players depends on the availability of players, of course. A tadpole is a rather weighty ball, with a tail. You may throw the tadpole by its tail, but may not be moving when doing so. If you pick it up, you must stop moving. Otherwise, kicking is the main means of locomotion. This presents a challenge, as the tail prevents you from kicking it directly. The pond cannot be directly approached, as the tadpole will slide along the snow with its tail behind it, with the tail being in the way for kicking. If you kick the opposing team’s tadpole out of bounds, it returns to their grandfather. Professional tadpole teams wear the traditional felt hat, white dress and dark suit coat to honor St. Teresa of the Little Frogs, who often attends games. Tadpole has often been described as “sheer madness”.

The corsage in their felt hats overpower their outfits, in my opinion. A simple brooch would have sufficed, maybe a representation of the aforementioned tadpole described by our illustrious Brass Orchid (the historian of all things Froglandian.)

What is the taller of the two holding in his non-cane holding hand? He also seems to be sporting more than his fair share of bijouterie on that hand. How brummagem.

Teresa, please. Have your coffee BEFORE writing your strips.

Being newcomers to Dogpatch, the O’Toole brothers were aghast when they heard about the Sadie Hawkins Day race, and decided an extremely low profile was the better part of valor.

Be sure to sit on the envelope for NOT LESS than 30 seconds before mailing, so that “Bob” may better whiffread your psi-stench when it arrives at Church .

If this is about the chicken curry I ate last night….

PMS.. POST MENAPAUSE SYNDROME.. NOTE TO SELF…

FISHNET FRIDAY

Available here:

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I wonder how long these arcane individuals would last on a Saturday night stroll through South Chicago ….

Some people just aren’t cut out for The Good Place.

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Jealous, no doubt, of my Amorphophallus titanum like fragrance. Breath deeply boys, for this heady brew is fleeting and erratically bestowed, and you will soon succumb to the sweet sorrow of its parting.

Subtitle: “Eleanor Roosevelt and Bella Abzug spend a day at the spa.”

I giggle at Tough Talk (a.k.a. talking smack, bringing the smack, etc.) from guys in white dresses. They could easily be cultists, though I am not one to contradict Brass Orchid’s fetching description of the Froglandian sport of Tadpole and its basic uniforms!

I, too, can arm myself with a cane, and am known to be a fair striker!

Will the sun never shine on Froglandia again?

…Diamonds on every finger, he wore a tailor-made suit, he smoked a black cigar, he wore a stetson hat, he wore a pair of cowboy boots. …Brown pulled a knife, he jumped on Pete, they fought from the counter right on into the street. They swung from north, they swung from south, Brown cut that black cigar right outta Pete’s mouth… from “Big Boy Pete” by the Righteous Brothers and about a hundred other groups.

@Space Captain Cody(G

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Which one got pregnant by the other?

There’s a rumor that the 2 individuals above are the ones responsible for maintaining the servers at this site ….

What do the opposing team uniforms look like?

This is getting a little old. It may start to emit its own stench….