Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for October 24, 2023

Acme makes selfishness? Someone tell the Coyote. He’s got an account there.

I hear bad citizenship is very chic these days.

I read “ACNE of selfishness” which is a whole other thing.

Where’s this, China?

It’s a knotty situation. So cut through The Gordian Knot: Outlaw Marriage and Birth Children: “Oh Brave New World / That has such people in’t.”

There are certainly those who adhere to this way of thinking, though I think more of us regard it as twisted. These are not differences that should matter in the grand scheme of living harmoniously with each other, any more than the exercise, or absence thereof, of religion.

…sometimes, I think Mrs. T. is reading my mind…

…as luck or coincidence would have it…

…I am reading a 1938 reader from the Cleveland School system…

…exact same format…

…the things you can learn…

…like before radios & walkie-talkies whistle s,bells, flags , and yanks & pulls were major ways to communicate for heavy duty jobs…

…the book tells how the Golden Gate Bridge was constructed…

…finished just one year earlier…

…there are even stories where famous people meet each other…

…like George Washington & Daniel Boone…

…then it asks questions just like this does…

…it is good to see that Froglandia is finally updating its school books

she dresses well…

Having a lot of children could be taken with this definition, also. (The parents COULD establish their own society!)

*The Hygiene of Mind" by T.S. Clouston, 1906, Edinburgh." My mind ain’t got no hygiene, so there.

When I was around 20 or so, and routinely partook in Mary Joo Wanna, we used to call those, “bumples.” Like they were not pimples but almost and were for sure bumps. Gawd we were cute.

Marie Laveau checks off everything on that list.

Marie Laveau checks off everything on that list.

(Shel Silverstein, Dr. Hook, and Bobby Bare, please call your office)

I fall in that list somewhere.

KId? I found out what caused ’em and got it fixed!

Are those Kibbles, pebbles … or both …?

( they ain’t meat-a-balls … but i digest )

So how come ‘moralizer’ isn’t on your vocab list?

When I was a teen, I think I had ACNE of SELFISHNESS… I kept ALL the zits for myself.

Her biological clock is ticking….methinks!

But she couldn’t care less!

You’re not kidding. The kidcentric have spoken. Keep breeding until we tell you to stop.

I used to know the Acme of Selfishness. He lived up the street from my parents when I was in college. He often wore a fez.

The Borg procreate through assimilation. Your morals are irrelevant. Likewise the Frorg (Frog-Borg) will overwrite your programming with it’s subliminal poetic cartoonery. You will be Lame-ass-imilated. Resistance to plumage is futile.

The author of this passage, Thomas Clouston, was a Scottish psychiatrist. There’s a bit from one of his other publications which may be of interest to you, titled “Uterine, or amenorrhœal, ovarian, and hysterical insanities—The insanity of masturbation.”

https://psycnet.APA.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F12742-014

https://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Thomas_Clouston

Program that female Cyborg with this Truth-Particle. She will then be a more responsible Artificial Citizen!

So let it be written. So let it be done!

That’s a real knee slapper.