Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 27, 2023

Can they be fruit flavored, or would that be just too heterodox?

The smores the merrier.

Without a proper save-the-day I’m not sure we can accommodate your request.

Mmm, burnt chalk.

Of course you can break with tradition but, just out of interest, how many funeral pyres have you had?

… we’re sorry but all funeral pyres have been canceled until after the forest fire season…

…of course, cancelled, is also correct…

…so everyone take a hand and join the circle…

…and the first one to finish wins…

…the lavender coloured marshmallows…

…second place wins the pink…

…third the green…

…the rest get only the standard white…

A bag of Lucky Charms marshmallows, perhaps?!

Wishes and sleeps with fishes, the obituary is in the lost but not forgotten section of today’s newspaper. Blow all the candles out for this to come true.

Those marshmallows. Over there. Through the Doors.

funeral pyres have changed a lot since I was a kid.

Having discovered that she could not take her heretical views with her, she willed them to her survivors.

At least she understood that her dying would be a joyous occasion for all.

Is she dead yet? (can’t tell by looking at her)

Pool, Billiard’s or Swimming, a blood pooling up for hardness causing friction or fractual outcomes. The eight ball pocket rockets and lapped in.

She should break a few more traditions before she goes out.

She’s become an old softie in her old age…soft in the head…like burnt pastel marshmallows, over an open fire….melting…on Graham and chocolate beds….

Sorry, Aunt Mahetabel, but we’re a traditional family. Only white marshmallows are acceptable for toasting around the pyre. You can, however, opt for the Viking Funeral#2, where we send you out to sea in a flaming knarr covered with pastel marshmallows if you wish.

Mystertimpouffer

Definition:

The mysterious sound at mystertim’s home, heard on quiet weeknights, as his talent slowly hemorrhages. Poor fellow.

Traditions are meant to be broken.

Daring choice with flair.

I’ve got the pastel marshmallows so come on, baby, light my fire! (incidentally, for years, I thought the lyrics were “And our love become a funeral fire.”)

The final sugar rush

Is there an alternative ritual for the althaiophobes?

This is why people need to get a funeral directive. I cannot stress this enough.

I like that the blue scribble has changed to an AI produced plaid wave form. A clear indication that Teresa has been replaced by an even lamer AI; if that is even possible.

If all a curmudgeon can find to dislike is a little blue brush stroke, then I’d say the comic and Teresa are pretty dang brilliant. I love this one because I was already chuckling, and when my eyeballs got to “funeral pyre” that was definitely not where I thought we were going. Lol! Classic Teresa twist!

that is a fair request

I am not familiar with the customs of your culture, Milady, though they do seem strange to me. Where I’m from the EPA has forbidden funeral pyres (carbon signature and all that), along with the burning of raked leaves by the curbside, which we used to do, enjoying the aroma from freshly fired floral detritus.

Indeed, ignoramus that I am, I did not even know that marshmallows are available in pastels. I never was in the scouting/campfire/s’mores cadre. Indeed, proudly so.

But, naturally, we shall do our very best to respect your Last Wishes….

Dorothy Woody’s request from OZ, or is it now known as 0Z.. A double bubble bong hit is still one hit inhaled.

In Hale or The Skipper’s Island..

Look, the funeral is for those of us who are left behind. We want black marshmallows.

Sorry.