Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 11, 2022

Where’s spork in the road?

Knowledge, and a pry bar.

Knowledge = medical instruments and equipment?? Well, knowledge of which equipment can be used medically!!

Ignorance is America’s greatest weakness. According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level. And that explains a lot.

Felix the cat

The wonderful, wonderful cat

Whenever he gets in a fix

He reaches into his bag of tricks

If this kid can use 50 Cent words like that, maybe he should skip a grade, or maybe he should get counseling for his death metal obsession.

The words Plato said when he first learned to speak. Or maybe it was Ralph Kramden…?

…my sister once came home with straight A’s on her report card…

…my Mum yelled at her …

..telling her never to come home home with straight A’s again…

…that there was more to life than studying…

…and my Mum was a nurse…

…graduated college…

….in highschool I had Mrs. Green for Literature Class…

…she gave us an assignment in poetry…

…said that there were no wrong answers in poetry…

…and that it was open to interpretation…

…so go for it…

… I took up the challenge…

…dismissed the easy answers…

…looked for deeper meaning not only about what the author said…

…but what was left unsaid…

…I started reading between the lines…

…and amazed myself by finding a clear, deeper meaning…

…I wrote happily…

…joyfully…

…when Mrs. Green walked around handing us back our papers she had given me a D. …

…publicly telling me as she handed it to me that that wasn’t what the poem was about at all…

…that what I wrote was nonsense…

…that next time I should take the assignment seriously…

…I failed that class because I realized she had nothing to teach me…

…she opened a door only to shut it in my face…

…wait…

…I’m still writing that way…

…well…

…that explains things perfectly…

One must always have an emergency armamentarium ready to go should the occasion arise..Girl Scouts, & Boy Scouts go by this rule…..and these days, more than the scouts have an arsenal ready and waiting….

Even when at home, unsupervised, the Conehead family strives to stockpile knowledge.

Go practice on your brother again.

…aaaaannnnd I learned another word today.

At the edge of Knowl is:

Dociousaliexpisticfragicalirupus ….

( phonetic-speakwrite )

A clear violation of oversuffixisationalism. The word you seek is armory.

I like those Jiffy-Pop popcorn bags on their heads.

Mama’s got BIG feet.

Always let your knowledge be your guide. Hmm, is that like “Do your own research?”

The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know much.

These charming Old Country ladies are very powerful, indeed! From Knowledge comes Power!