Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 27, 2023

Shortcomings, longcomings…

Long story short?

If they won’t go away, hit ’em with a ten-foot command.

Cut to the chase honey, I want to sing my Birthday Song w/you. Does this not seem appropriate? Or am I a dollar short and a day late?

That conversation will be over when one of us is dead.

You can tune a fish, but you can’t tune a tuning fork or spork.

DANG, Teresa just made a comic based on my relationships with some of the most important women in my life!

You can stay but your bullshyte has got to go!

As close to the crack as ever… more than a paper cut.

. . . but . . . I was in a discussion of my strong points .

And one of your shortcomings is failure to follow directions.

The long and the short of it is that size really matters to you!

It’s not the long and short of it, it’s the wider subject matter that really matters….that’s another story…..

Clothing covers up a LOT of shortcomings…

The bloom is off the rose, just the thorns are left.

So, he was too short there for you, too, huh!?

Long story long … define short ….

What about your own unbecomings?

I’ve had some of those.

Harshly rejected by the naked lady, “Shorty” sought solace in a bottle. The result was predictably nauseating, and did nothing to enhance his manliness….

…don’t worry, Ron DeSantis has you covered…