Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 20, 2012

Let’s face it, all women want baloney. Always worked for me.

Fickleloaf.

I prefer hard salami, medium-siced, thank you. Or else.

I don’t mind the baloney, it’s the bulls#%t that I can’t stand.

I’ve always preferred liverwurst myself.

Mmmm, thick, juicy baloney steak.

Ick, baloney!this will only work while you can see the minutes.

slag1    [slag] Show IPA noun, verb, slagged, slag·ging.noun1.Also called cinder. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore.2.the scoria from a volcano.3.waste left over after the re-sorting of coal.

The Luckies ad is obviously before WWII, when “Luckies Green went to War” and gave up the green ink for the war effort. Clicky

It isn’t the thickness or the weight … its the motion.

You said … “Make up your mind. One day this comic strip is funny, and for the next month it isn’t.”-You should only read it on the days when its funny … just a suggestion.

It may be thick, but its not very big around.

Baloney, bologna, thick or thin, fresh or fried, whole or holed. so many choices, so many voices… I’ll have the ham,please.

sliced thick, battered, and fried.

…i like bunnies…

Thick baloney is fine but I prefer mortadella.

Port Hope is filled with the odor of audacity.

Teresa – I believe the "Poodle for Dinner " illustration is by Charles Burns.

I remember doing that. Fold, take a bite, open, look through the hole, giggle.

Really laying it on thick here…

Always lay it on thick honey, then prepare to thin it out some.

The wikipedia entry for slag offers several possible uses for that ship’s cargo. Some slag had a high iron content, so it could be reprocessed to extract more iron. It also had a high phosphorous content, making it a good fertilizer. It could be mixed with Portland cement to make a concrete that resisted the effects of salt water. One English company also used it to make decorative agate glass, in which the slag made it look as though moss was growing on the glass.

Reprocessing doesn’t seem likely for 1912 England (they had better sources of iron ore) and the company that made agate glass doesn’t appear to have needed huge amounts of it. So it’s a toss-up between fertilizer and concrete production (which would be useful in a coastal port).

It’s been a sad week. We are so much poorer for the loss of some great talent. Tempis fugit.