Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 26, 2011

I think he’s my new Hero, too. I think…

I hear the people in England eat jellied eel.

He’s probably a dab hand at that loaves and fishes thing.

Vender should be spelled vendor.

He might be right. I put an eel in my mother’s vegetable crisper and every time she opened the fridge, it would return to life. My rump still remembers the penance.

Smoked eel is good too, Flight Suit.

“The Important Book” has a Magritte feel.

And, yes, Dufy rocks.

Japanese eel preparation :: European eel preparation = Zen Buddhism :: Calvinism. But, on whose feet does the Philosopher sit?

US, Canada, Brazil, Australa, New Zealand (in beautiful Christchurch >_<), French Polynesia, Japan, China, Taiwan, Russia, Uzbekistan, India, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Italy, Switzerland.

where is this window, and why do things keep going out of it? and, isn’t the lawn littered with all those things that go out the window?

I named my eel Alfie, the ladies seem to like that I named it.

U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland.

Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Cape Verde, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Nigeria, England, France, Germany, Pakistan, India, Denmark, Sweden, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy, the Confederate States of America, the Choctaw Nation, Massachusetts and Tulsa.

USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, UK, Belgium, Thailand, Vietnam

Re: the Great Vender/Vendor Debate of 2011: Teresa - you caved too soon (what have I told about allowing the nitpicking scolds to draw you into an admission without first consulting the T.D.L. legal department?). Some words admit multiple spellings. According to the O.E.D. both vender and vendor are acceptable. While vendor may be the more standard of the two, what the hell about Frog Applause is standard in the first place?

Canada, Mexico, Singapore. I’m such a piker. Next year, France and England. I know. They don’t count.

Wow. This was a real person. I thought he was made up. http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/2011/02/louwrens-voorthuijzen-lou-eel-vendor.html

I wish to go on record as saying that for many years I have advocated English language spelling reform. This has already been accomplished in other languages such as German and Swedish. For example, this sentence: “I wish I had enough dough to buy a plow for the slough.” would be spelled: “I wis I had enuf do to by a plou for the slu.” Think of the billions of dollars of ink we could save. Or de bilyons of pixels.

Nice toes……..did I spell that write??

Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Venezuela, England, France,Italy (including Sicily), Spain, Singapore, Australia (continent), Vietnam (South), Philippines, Japan, California.

US, Canada, Mexico, England, Japan, Okinawa, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Taiwan.

United States, Canada, Mexico, (not Panama), Australia, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, de Nederlands, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Austria (lived), Switzerland (lived), Liechstenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Malta, Italy (lived), the Vatican, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Turkey, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Democratic Republic of the Congo, England, Ireland, Hungary (airport only), Angola (airport only), Egypt, British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Puerto Rico (US, but just sayin’…). I think that’s it.

USA, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, Italy, England, France, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Germany, Austria…so far.

I bought a set of these some time ago, simply because the joke was too good to pass up.

An article about Abkhazian postage issues is here

Back when I was a smoker in the mid-60’s, ciggies were 33¢ a pack, $3.00 a carton. At least it was a lot cheaper to kill yourself back then. For what it’s worth, I ruined my lungs, even smoking for only 6 years. I’m still paying the price.

USA, Canada, Austria, Italy.

Not well travelled. More of a homebody.

I haven’t finished with Brooklyn yet, the world can wait.

Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Belize, Guam, Micronesia (Truk and Yap), Fiji, Turks and Caicos, Curacao, Germany, France, Luxombourg, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and, of course, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

France, Ireland, Mali, Jamaica, Canada, Mexico, and 47 of 50 US states.

I’ve only had a small glimpse, but enough to realize how wonderful other countries are. I’m also fortunate to have been pretty much everywhere in the contiguous US.

My hat is off to those posters with paragraphs of experience :) Sounds like a great time.

~gabriel

Lived: Japan (last 8 years), Germany (5 years), U.S. Traveled: Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, France, Italy, Turkey, Hong Kong, Taiwan (does airport count?), England, possibly others (did a lot of traveling in Europe), Mexico, Canada, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, all over U.S. (father tended to move every couple of years, both in Army and out)

US, Canada, St. Lucia, St.Vincent, St Martin, Martinique, Antigua, Puerto Rico (airport only), US Virgin Islands, Turks and Cacos, Bahamas.

I once visited the planet Gibber. This is why I am fluent in the language of Gibberish.