Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 23, 2019

Ah, the smell of vintage postcards, with masking tape and just a hint of lime.

There is no planet B.

Well, I JUST don’t know if I will….

Free Teeshirt! Only two boxtops and $18.95 shipping and handling!

Send for it today and the woman of secrets will whisper sweet nothings in your ear. That’s the implied promise anyway.

Is that Lefty Lemon or Loudmouth Lime? YOU make the call …

Before Amazon and the smart phone.

Oh go get it. Live dangerously.

What is the antecedent of “it?”

(I’ve been reading Ask A Portly Syndicate Person for over a month now and I’ve yet to see antecedent-related cartoon improvement advice.)

Maybe “it” could be the lady cartoon character’s nose?

Or maybe the gin and tonic that lime belongs in?

What about a less time consuming recipe for broccoli soup that will even please the most impatient of neurologically challenged close personal family members?

It’s just a thinly masked rip-off.

I will not send for it, before I know what it is.

I’ll pay anything for it, just give it to me now!

open items that they’ll look into immediately upon arrival, but won’t get finished this week

Just don’t have the time.

Mysteries of the Orient, the Mysterious Orient, which Only the Shadow Knows (Lamont Cranston, to his friends). Who knows what “today” really is? And, therefore, Q.E.D., I shall not order today. I’ve had enough of today anyway!