Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 04, 2012

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

Speedos- Try hard to avoid the middle man. It will keep your gross under control.

WHy is that lady with the pie giving me the finger?

I adopted a cat like that some years ago. I was her fourth human, which tells you something about Hiss’s personality.

Ration stickers:

http://www.cartype.com/pages/3635/gas_ration_stickers

http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/events/rationing.htm

The first site shows a C sticker, along with the list of occupations that could use it. It’s interesting that some of those occupations involved, basically, propaganda: recording and spreading war news. If it seems corrupt that Congressmen could get unlimited gas with an X sticker, remember that they were expected to travel around their home districts, to keep in touch with the voters.

I don’t know what you had to do to get a B sticker, which entitled you to eight gallons of gas per week for “essential war work.” Grandpa Thompson was a chemist, involved in research to reclaim and recycle used rubber. Pictures in the family albums show that his car only had an A sticker (four gallons per week, and no motoring for pleasure). Apparently stretching our rubber supply wasn’t considered all that essential ny the local OPA people.

The kitty’s not a kitty cause the kitty is a cat.

Eat your Dinty Moore® Beef Stew and shut up, you pretentious yellow tabby!

Re: FB— Rattle in car.

Can’t be mine! Everyone knows I drive a MINI Cooper!

“pot-au-feu” sent me Googling. Yummm!! (The name sounds like some kind of marijuana recipe.) I want some (not marijuana, stew).

My cats would never put up with carrots, onions, and leaks though. Salmon and any creature’s guts (properly aged) seem to be their prime choices.

You little feline pain in the keister! A missed meal looks like it would do you good.

Well said, Mate!

RE: Blog … Ration Stamps-I was just a kid and didn’t really understand how important ration stamps were. I liked the little images on them so when my parents weren’t around I stuck them in a neat line on the wallpaper above my bed. For several weeks after that I witnessed my father giving the guy at the gas station stamps with small beige flowers stuck around their edge … and every time, he gave me a dirty look.

Only the French could make oxtail or horsemeat so darn tasty.

Blog food valueAsh in food is anything that’s not an organic compound. It would include stuff like calcium carbonate, salts – table and other mineral salts.

Ah, Teresa! You have managed to capture the essence of Cat-hood most succinctly! Marvelous!

@3HourTour -I tend to agree with you. If we remove that objectionable phrase, maybe it will be recited at the opening of school days again!

Whoops! All out of pot-au-feu. How ’bout some pot-roast?

I’v looked for explanations of the ash content in foods and haven’t found a consistent explanation. Apparently the ash comes from testing processed foods for their content; the ingredients are analyzed by heating them up to 550 C. What’s left has a high mineral content, and in theory adds minerals to the food when the canning factory returns the ash to the untested material. It may also serve as a filler.

You wouldn’t find ash in an actual fish. I’m guessing that the blog picture comes from a magazine article on what you get in canned fish.

hear hear!

or should that be here here? I DID hear what you were saying, and agreed with it, so…?

May the 4th be with you!!!!

very well said.

Having taught middle school for 35 years, I can tell you that some kids would not stand or say it because it was drummed into them that this isn’t the “land of the free”.Some kid’s religion won’t allow them to pledge or swear, so we’d would also have to change the word pledge to affirm and it would become the Affirmation of Allegiance.

The inclusion of the phrase “under God” came a few years after the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment prohibited requiring students to recite the pledge.Personally, I find the idea of pledging allegiance to the government a little uncomfortable… it seems more than a little undemocratic… doesn’t the government derive its authority from the consent of the governed? Doesn’t sovereignty derive from the citizenry? Shouldn’t the government be pledging its allegiance to US?

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KRBH21IvSrc

i downloaded this. i may put it on fb.

Thanks for that non-sequitur. I’m sure someone was waiting for that load.

: Di love spell check…