Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 20, 2011

That is a feeling of the inevitable, power/helplessness…

http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/2011/04/clint-eastwood.html

There is no such thing as a Jaguar XK1505. Just to make sure, I Googled it. Plenty of results came up, including ones pertaining to Clint Eastwood’s ownership of such a car, but they are wrong.

What does exist is a model known as the XK150. There was an S variant, the XK150S. Somewhere along the line, somebody must have misread the S as a 5 and typed it that way. Others presumably saw the mistake and repeated it, and now the Web is filled with references to the non-existent XK1505.

Oh, I love that sneeze thing. It’s just about the second-best feeling in the world…

I always thought it very strange after Bea Benaderet died and June Lockhart joined the cast… they changed the lyrics to:

It is run by Joe, come and be his guest at the Junction, Petticoat Junction! Here’s our Lady M.D., she’s as pretty as can be at the Junction, Petticoat Junction!

Apparently the sponsors thought it strange, too, as the show only lasted two more seasons before being cancelled.

brain explosion

His feelings are nothing to sneeze at.

But seriously folk,

I consider the battle of Brittain to be one of Man’s finest hours. Even the Royals crowded in those damp sewers to save moral. Taking nothing from the American war effort, if not for English guts and courage, I’d be digging my high school German texts out of the attic.

Thanks for reminding us Teresa, it took more than rationing sugar.

Euphoria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel okay just before I sneeze, but I know I my face contorts in some outlandish ways. I wonder about that zombie-lookin’ dude.

@Marg - I want you to know that it’s not that I haven’t noticed the eggs. It’s that I’ve been ignoring them.

If someone will send me the form I will nominate Stephen Fry for an FB Award of Excellence (we could nickname the award and call it the “Teresa”). Fry had me at “…yoke impossible words together for the sound sex of it.” That’s been my lifelong goal.*

* Well, one of my lifelong goals. The other is to get my chrome polished in the back seat of a cab parked at the base of the Eiffel Tower.

I always felt I was missing something on road trips through the south when dad never gave into the clamoring SEE ROCK CITY signs,billboards and barn roofs

is rock city really worth seeing?

rotifer, it’s your own fault for letting your chrome get dull, but you can semi-reach that goal by taking your chrome to King’s Island . their Eiffel tower is only 1/3 size, but your chrome is probably 1/3 these days anyway.

talking about? of COURSE I have no idea what I’m talking about! why should I start now?

@Rotifer Here are a lot more eggs for you to ignore.

My libido was always stirred by the three young ladies on Petticoat Junction, even the replacements.

if dull is your chrome

and it needs a shine

to Paris ye should roam

where you’ll have a good time

Burma Shave

I got very close to that goal in 1982. If that rude French cab driver (oops - I’m being redundant) would have given me change for a $100 bill I would have reached the promised land.

Please bear in mind that nighthawks, THE ORIGINAL LDM, is obviously motivated by pure self-interest when suggests that size doesn’t matter.

@nighthawks re Rock City.

I dunno whether you missed anything or not. I grew up in SC and have never seen Rock City. I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, thought.

Oh! I have been to Chimney Rock. That is definitely worth the trip!!

Re: Sneeze - There is something wonderful when one’s body is totally focused on one grand thing…..

Oh My That post about smiling on the phone is now posted on my office wall…..Ahhhhh….

I work in Accounting and Collections for a Medical Facility….it might not help when I am trying to make a rep from India understand that his company owes $12,000 for a surgery that was preformed in July of last year, but it gave me a good laugh.

That guy sure looks like Dick Cavett!

He looks like an old-time fundamentalist preacher from a tent revival - or Pope Pius VI.

He looks like the guy from Red Meat.

Speaking of red meat: Last meals: Those sound good, but are they worth dying for? Are these cooked by the prison chef? Never mind, then. I think I’ll go straight. Besides, I probably couldn’t get steak tartare or raw kibi, because of the danger of bacteria. Plus, the tartare sauce probably wouldn’t be all that good. (OK, I stole that from a commercial.)

an bleeep was once described as a “pelvic sneeze”

red meat will kill you anyway

I thought that guy was Im-Ho-Tep and he’d used up all his wrappings as tissues.

Looks like Teresa’s been cruising Flickr just after midnight and discovered the cutest thing on earth.