Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for December 28, 2020

Such crosswords from such a gentleman!

i am prepared to eat french toast until I become an operating Thetan.

Yes, your social bubble is free of the virus but is now 100% Potential Trouble Sources.

You’ve harshed their perceptics, man. How will they ever find their way to hyper-awareness of personal moisture?

When I found a religion, it will be pasta-based.

Waiting for french toast flavoured bubble gum.

Suppressive person.

Surveillance pickle.

Synchronism?

Dear Ms. Burritt

May I offer a gentle correction to an today’s entry on the Flog?*

That was MY Top Ten list, not my son’s (as I recall he was on a spaghetti bender the entire month of December 2016 and wouldn’t have known a keyboard from a hole in his head the size of a bread basket).

Sincerely,

Rotifer’s Mother

* A portmanteau of “Frog” and “Blog”

…I want to live with the cinnamon girl…

…but, it is the spice that makes me clairvoyant…

… Ben Gesserit was a friend of mine…

…not the one that played, Mannix, either …

… when she crossed her legs in the thoper…

…I could a swore those were not the droids I was looking for…

…[ and here I thought that I was looking for an I-phone]…

… FA is not a religion…

… sin a man a tobacco pouch…

…he chews without getting bits in his teeth…

…sin a man a posie…

…his cheeks will look bright and rosie…

Aaaah yes! The spice of life, the life of the party! The Bathmat factory is having their annual spice and dice sale! Cinnamon Bunns, , NUT-Meg and All- Spice on special….so Cumin down while supplies last! Also, at our snack bar, we’re featuring a special breakfast of waffles and cinnamon whipping cream, side of apple bacon…..cumin down!

He’s suffering from identity politics. From the throes of which, of course, there is no recourse.

Off with his cinnamon roll, I say.

Did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn’t you?

Mother and Son Thalweg are clearly cornering the wit of the FA Commentariat. I look at the Blog (or “Flog”) and despair, like the throng that stopped to watch Ozymandias.

Pain perdu needs to stay perdu.

I knew a suppressed Parson once … no top hat, but his clerical collar was REALLY reversed …!

(In keeping with BathMatt chapter 7 : reverse 15)

Regarding the Blog: Ah, the good old daze! Enjoyed all the olde commentary …!

The maple syrup gang is also after you.

I prefer my french toast with a little nutmeg and a dash of orange zest, and besides, not being particularly religious my self, you can take your spice-entendres and shove it.

CHURCH

All things must pass. Yes, this is true, all things must pass and become one with the greater plumage. Hallowed be thy lame.

Some monoliths have all the luck. Hey! Can I get some service over here?

Oh-boy, I hope there is no penalty for crossing the pickles, as I have been an admirer of both for some time. Frog purgatory, here I come.

Parsley, Sage, and Fennel, are on break, what can I do you for?

Just goes to show how narrow-minded those French toasters are! Stride vigorously, O Individualist! Let corporate-think and the cinnamon-sheep be besprinkled with contempt (and a soupçon of nutmeg)!

Beat the Charlie Dickens out of them!

unique perspective all these!

[To quote Hedley Lamarr’s last words – at the footprints of Douglas Fairbanks]

“How did he do such terrific stunts… with such little feet?!”

News item (abbreviated): Dateline; BARNEGAT LIGHT, N.J.

“By early afternoon, the only sign that a whale had been there was a lingering stench.”

Lingering Stench would be a good name for a late ’60s Belchertown bar band.

…to my surprise, Battlefield Earth was a quite good read…

…The Mission Earth 10 book series was a massive waste of time…

…I kept reading thinking it was leading up to the good stuff…

…why I read all 10 I’ll never know?…

…I should have quit after the first one…

…after the third…

…after seven I should have thrown them in the trash…

…but that was how much I enjoyed Battlefield Earth…

…now I am reading something totally different…

…The Third Body Problem…

Here’s a fun fact from the beyond.

Scooby Doo has eaten close to 60,000 scooby snacks since his airing on TV.

Bill Nye the Science Guy had a segment on his shows a while back called “Way Cool Scientist.” Dr. Corrie Moreau, entomologist of Cornell University, qualifies in living color, because she reTweeted a Frog Applause strip, but she also has the distinction of working in Ithaca, NY, the birthplace of your coltish correspondent.

The ants in Dr. Moreau’s lab better be careful, lest they end up at (insert scary music here) The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Hey, look! Day 2: the Johnnie Walker wannabe still strides with mannish vigor….