Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 18, 2022

Three shins.

Whoa!  Another one for today?  IT’S TOO MUCH!

Mid-calf MADNESS!

Say it ain’t so.

Rising Sun, blue moon

Stiletto shadows falling

For it every time

My skirmishing is becoming more decisive every other day.

Green and yellow itching undercover fashion police latest release!

Hayfields v. McCoys

The test of time. Ya sure…

Cheat notes on his socks?

…back in 6th grade a girl said she would kiss me if I wore her modern dance outfit…

…I balked, hoping, at least to get to second base…

…but a kiss is a kiss is a kiss…

…but eventually I conceded…

…she said I had to ask her mother…

…her bikini sun bathing mother said only if she could take a Polaroid picture…

…I balked…

…but I didn’t want to strike out, so I agreed…

…but only if the girl was never allowed to take the picture to school…

…terms were settled…

…and I wore the modern dance outfit…

…with my socks rolled down under the stockings…

…of course she had the picture on the bus…

…but I managed to grab it…

…she went to our teacher and said I had taken her picture…

…I told the teacher that it was a picture of me…

…she said that she wanted to see it…

…I said,no…

…we ended up having to stand against the schoolwall during recess …

…holding hands..

…I nevergot the kiss, but I got to keep the picture and hold hands with her in front of everyone…

…maybe not a homerun, but good enough…

It is not actually indecisive. We are using a technique developed by the squirrel ninja armies of the Western Woods of Froglandia. The purpose is to confuse and fake out the combatants by changing the course of action every few moments. When the combatants are not oncoming vehicles, it works surprisingly well!

The calculus socks were indecisive once they’d been laundered once. It’s odd; my money would’ve been on the poli sci or the history socks.

That priest using the wrong words when performing baptisms was probably too decisive.

I once had a pair of socks like this….they followed me every where…annoying!

For crying out loud! Make up my mind, are we going forward or not?

I thought skirmishing was what they did in the olden days.

Joshua skirmished against the Amalekites.

The Gileadites skirmished against Ephraim.

Saul skirmished against enemies on every side.

Not only did David skirmish against the Philistines, he carried off their cattle too (you know that had to hurt).

3HT skirmished against that 6th grade girl (figuratively).

Putin walking on Ukraine.

One person I can’t abide is a waffling warrior! Fickle feuders should be fended off with fireworks, flat irons, and flattery!

STEP AWAY FROM THE SHADOW CHIPPAH …!

The Battle of Sock-Its Harbor was no mere skirmish, and was a decisive victory (both times!)

“Sock it to me” was so much more fun before all the posturing took the laugh-in’ away. I blame it on Madonna and “Vogue.” Hatfield and McCoy voguing. Deliverance us from evil, feet don’t fail me now.

Sunny and Cher the lawn chairs in my open eyes.

Indecisive skirmishing is probably better than total war. I imagine if we wait just a while, we’ll find out….

Men yelling indistinctly

Elementary Watson, The Soaking of knowledge using sweat socks

My Father sent us kids to the snowbank and he’d stick our heads in it. No more arguing.

PERIOD