Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for October 04, 2023

It’s the old “slip of the tongue” routine. I know it well.

Hank? Is that you?

Do I own fancy pants? Nope. Fat chance!

Surely he would have said “fancy trousers”.

Next time, try “Fit shanks!”, meaning “Nice legs!”

I do fancy something, but not pants.

Fancy fat pants chance? A chance of having to wear them or not!? Ha!! If it came to that, I’d be pants-free.

I’m assuming this was Luther’s 98th thesis… the one that blew off the door.

…and back then their pants were so fancy they couldn’t even be qualified as pants…

A fat chance in fancy pants?

One squat away from downgrading those pantaloons.

But I’m not wearing any!!

Somebody hacked his social media.

Auto Correct Scribe can be such a pain sometimes.

I said that they were snuggly britches not …

Next thing he knew, he was the initial inductee into the Sir Percy Persnickety Speech Pattern Hall of Fam, which bears his name.

That changes everything.

We all know what you meant! Fancy pants is used to cover up a fat chance in hell!

you sure it wasn’t ‘chancey fants’?

Ah yes, the age of malapropism …!

( my favorite malaprop is malathion vs. melatonin )

thats not what you said you said

…Chesty doesn’t have fancy pants…

…and Ziggy doesn’t wear any…

…does slim chance & fat chance mean the same thing?…

…maybe like calling a big boned person, Slim…

…or a tall person Shorty…

…is it whom knows or who knows?…

…they told me there’d be days like this…

…(though I don’t like the term, they…

…but it wasn’t him or her that made me say it…

…it was them in the back…

…y’all come back, now, ya hear?…

…[ fat chance…

…er…

…I mean…

…fancy pants]…

Be happy you were quoted at all.

No, wait… I said “fat pants.”

Darn autocorrect!

I’ll take, Do these pants make me look fancy? Alec for 500.

… or maybe it was “fart cart.”

he said nothing

I’m sure he’s wearing the fancy pants in the family.

Go comics has blocked my comments again.

go comics took my money on Oct 1 and cancelled my comments on Oct 4

It really doesn’t matter.

He only has three followers on pantser, and two of them are his own aliases.

Safety dance…?

They always misquote you, don’t they? But that’s okay; in this case they may even be trying to protect you, as “fancy pants” may be deemed offensive in some quarters, whereas “fat chance” might be deemed lowbrow but otherwise innocuous….