Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 23, 2023

Guys like this always quack me up when I’m feeling down.

That ain’t gonna happen.

So all of our private selfies count for nothing?

Don’t turn your back to the camera lens my friend or just cover up and grin. The possibilities become rear enda sneeze.

Straighten that tie!!

Yes sir ree, when a quaintness surrounding becomes paintball war.

When in doubt, I whip it out, cause I got me a rock and roll band, it’s a free for all.

Nugent, Ted Nugent.

Does that mean we have to meet In Real Life?  No, no no no no.

As your friend, I say “Don’t do that!”

…if it walks like a duck…

…talks like a duck…

…it’s a duck faced selfie!…

…complete with friend or pet pooping in the background…

…or taking the picture in their underwear…

…which we see in the mirror…

…or Pops sneaking a smoke…

…Harold thought a duck face selfish would save his marriage…

…but he forgot to cut and paste before he hit the back button…

…poof!…

…all gone…

…and he doesn’t have Google or Amazon backups…

…like the rest of us…

…we’ll have no hard copy backups…

…and in 30 years when the internet goes poof!…

…to the next big thing…we’ll be the generation without acknowledged photographic proof we were ever here…

…just like computer generated cartoons…

…none on the shared artists walls…

…as if it never happened at all…

…but I do have good news…

…today’s my birthday!…

…or is it?!?…

say ‘cheese’.

Question: What do you get when you cross-pollinate Barry Goldwater with John McLaughlin?

Answer: Frog Applause™!

Dad! (At least it reminds me of him.)

Get the duck outta here!

Wait … why did pops change his hair style (if you can call it that)?

He doesn’t look like he ever wears a tie, except for photo ops. I mean, would you trust this guy to do your taxes? Or handle your divorce? Or even clean your gutters? He seems a little too flighty and out of touch to be trustworthy.

Ferret-face selfies are the best …!

“…when your heart’s on fire

You must realize smoke gets in your eyes.”

Looks like the real George Smiley, not Guinness or Oldman

What if I drew a picture of myself in duckface? Does that count?

I will not do the duck face. I do not like it, no I do not.

Lawrence, Kan., the heat index hit 134°F Sunday after the air temperature reached 102°F.

Is that a duck call in his mouth or a cigarette?

Looks to me like he’s a weasel of the third kind.

Resembles an Ohio politician about to go rogue! He’s ready to go bonkers…..

LMAO! ☺️☺️☺️

fair enough. where’d you go?

If anyone likes taking duckface selfies together, it’s old fellers.

Listen up, punk! A grunion like you, with me, in any [blanking] photo?!

Never gonna happen, “friend.”

Smoke that. And get lost….

Sounds like I dodged a bullet there.