Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 28, 2022

And now we are Six.

Just count the paper doll legs and divide by 2.

Heads will roll, when rolls will head… Newton said action and reaction…to the sixth degree.

I am suspicious of easy word problems.  "It’s a Trap!"

I was more likely to add things to paper people. Antennae. Wings. Tails. Talons. Jet packs. Fishbowl space helmets.

Of course heads play off walls and odd head out…°\

Too many / not enough….

…the Froglandia Bath Mat math class starts off easy enough…

…but soon you are tackling Quantum mechanics…

…and cutting their heads off…

… industrial espionage counter intelligence…

…our counters are made from everything from acacia wood to marble…

…because it really ‘smarts’ when you lose a wisdom tooth…

…our counters wear Acme mouth guards…

…protecting the Queen since another one bites the dust…

…some heads may be smaller than they appear…

…so how long until the train reaches Salt Lake City?…

Paper dolls have always bored me, even when I was their age.

How many heads? Each one looks like the others, making for one head.

It’s a trick question. Both of them put ONE head on the table. Only ONE of them put five heads on the table. Run away! Run away!

Kate is much better at cutting off heads than Anita. I need a pair of scissors.

I’m with Brass. I think the answer is a null set.

Ha! Thanks T! LOVE IT!

This is reminiscent of my earlier years….paper doll cutouts! I remember if they got bent, it was all over…they would be flimsy, floppy and couldn’t really do anything with them. So we cut them up in little pieces and threw them in the trash!

Six floppy doll heads ….Sitting in a row

Should I bury the bodies or stuff the heads in a duffel bag?

Anita and Kate grew up to be Thelma and Louise

Oranges and lemons,

Say the bells of St. Clement’s.

You owe me five farthings,

Say the bells of St. Martin’s.

When will you pay me?

Say the bells at Old Bailey.

When I grow rich,

Say the bells at Shoreditch.

When will that be?

Say the bells of Stepney.

I do not know,

Says the great bell at Bow.

Here comes a candle to light you to bed,

And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!

Chip chop chip chop the last man is dead.

" I’m gonna buy a paper doll that I can call my own

A doll that other fellows cannot steal

And then the flirty, flirty guys with their flirty, flirty eyes

Will have to flirt with dollies that are real

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When I come home at night she will be waiting

She’ll be the truest doll in all this world

I’d rather have a paper doll to call my own

Than have a fickle minded real live girl ”

The Mills Brothers 1943

Ridiculous Head Games Forever.

My kind of word problem.

I’m late to this party and missed the cut … feel the urge to watch Edward ScissorHeads, though ….

When I was going to St. Ed’s

I saw a doll with six whole heads

And every head had six red ticks

And every tick had six more lice

And every louse had six more mites

Mites, lice, ticks, heads

How many were going to St. Ed’s?

PS better call the exterminator, ASAP

Modern technology is in reality a secret miracle and not principles and engineering. Such provide cover for the secret miracle because a miracle will come with a convincingly plausible cover story. No other information available.

It’d be nice if we had interchangeable heads. I might like to try being a bear for awhile. Or maybe a train engineer, or Orville Wright, but not Wilbur, I heard he was an ass.

Guillotweens.

Lessee; 1 paper doll head + 5 paper doll heads, + Anita and Kate, + 1 table… Oh, these word questions get to be so tricky, my head hurts and might just fall off onto the table and really mess things up!

Six o’ one, Seven of Nine, half-dozen of the other….

Anita isn’t that great at cutting off heads.