Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for December 04, 2020

Good food, wine, and books: Great!

Catfood, twine, and books: someone’s eating and playing with string, and someone’s reading, but not the same someone.

Our cat doesn’t care about twine. He just likes to make sure you cannot read a book or newspaper.

I would also recommend an adequate supply of cats.

…things to have during a pandemic for $400.oo, please…

…what about 1/2 read books?…

….I’m reading five books, now…

…one on my phone during work…

…one in the car to unwind with in the parking lot after work…

…two by my chair & another…

… my annual reading of The Christmas Carol…

…oh, and The 2014 Froglandia Book of Footnotes…

I have mostly unread magazines. I am currently reading the May 2000 issue of Analog. I’m good on twine and cat food, too! I feel validated by this very special episode of Frog Applause.

You don’t have to like cat food to appreciate the composition…or the kind of day it evokes.

Ahm hunkered down with ma cats for the duration. My dog loves cat food.

No good here, No good there, no good anywhere….

What’s up pussy cat, meow meow.

CAT…SUP.

Looks like the cat got into the blue ink as well.

This list has all the earmarks of hard experience: it looks pared down, winnowed even, through a process of trial, error, and tedium.

Let’s hope the heavily implied cat doesn’t have any earmarks. That would be hard experience too.

MY cat eats dried stuff, ribbons, dried flowers, leaves, and then vomits all over….a mystery….I have a closet filled with wrapping, ribbons, bows, etc, and he could never get in it, but somehow, he was missing for hours and there he was, in the closet, farthest corner, basking in the “stuff”. IDK how he got in but I put a chair in front of the door…Oy BTW…..no twine, no books…..

So I thought I would warm some milk for cocoa in the microwave, which is a fairly common practice. Must have positioned it perfectly to prevent the hot spot from varying as it rotated. After a little more than a minute, it exploded. No harm done, other than milk coating the interior of the microwave, requiring a good wiping down. You hear about superheating of liquids, where they do not nucleate bubbles and flash into vapor suddenly, but you never expect to see it. What fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FcwRYfUBLM

Nirvana.

Ergo: a good supply of fat cats, cat’s cradles/Jacobs ladders, and read/reread books …?

Fainites

1960s North London (UK) playground slang/shout used to opt out of a game temporarily, or to prevent yourself being tagged in a game. Often it is accompanied be crossing the fingers and the arms in front of your chest and standing still.

The call can also be used to suspend a whole game temporarily, for example when an adult walks across a football pitch

Said to be derived from the Old English “Fain would I…” or “I do not want to…”“I was about to be tagged, but I shouted “fainites” so he went on and tagged someone else."

“I was just about to boot the ball when an old lady walked across the playground and someone shouted “fainites”.

From the Frogtionary

Must substitute dog food and add good tea.

Very interesting illustration today!

A little down time.

The perfect gifts for any kitty.

Popeye eats at The Olive Garden..

Meooow.

Re Blog:

Tea. I have not had pine needle tea, but I have had fir tip tea. Probably similar taste, but I can attest to the fact that all needles are not equal. I didn’t care for redwood needles, and some firs are better than others. I couldn’t tell you what variety is what. I only know from what trees I’ve tried, and now I have my favorites noted.

My favorite is first spring growth of the fir tree. I am partial to a younger, smaller tree, but young or old will do. I had an especially good harvest this year, and always bemoan the last cup before next spring.

I say erbal, not HERbal.

Language is weird, or maybe it’s people, I’m not sure, probably both. I’ve noticed, mostly talking heads and media types, will suddenly start pronouncing a word differently (and I don’t mean just in a regional dialect or country accent type of way) and that pronunciation will spread among others in their field and circulate for days, weeks, or months and then just suddenly disappear. The word will no longer be pronounced that way. Such a strange phenomenon. Anyone else notice this kind of thing?

Pine needles purportedly have three to five times more vitamin C than an orange, depending on what source you read, but there’s no hard and fast rule for how much C is in a pine needle. Regardless of the exact percentage, we know that pine needles and pine bark make an excellent natural vitamin C supplement.

Jack London and those guys up north had scurvy due to lack of Vitamin C but it was in the trees all around them.

1.) I do not have a cat.

2.) I do not fancy eating cat food myself.

3.) Sometimes books are so long as to be fatiguing to those of us damaged by ADD.

Therefore, I propose the following substitution:

A loaf of bread,

A jug of wine,

And an archive of Frog Applause….

Blog:

Pickle- all of those make sense to me, except the buck and the coon. Say what?

Propaganda- sowing seeds

Thanks gigagrouch, that is awesome; I guess the un-fleet of foot might employ this measure.

Bear bait: I don’t have to run faster than the bear. I just have to run faster than you.

Love rehashing things on a SLOW Saturday morn ….

(Yeah, I checked my pillbox)