Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 02, 2012

Might want to try a chicken.

Try a ‘Real Girl’. Lars was satisfied.

And this is why it’s unwise to tell a woman what you’re really thinking. Telepathy is the ultimate birth control. Because if women knew what men were really thinking, they’d never come withing 100 yards of a male again.

At this point she gives him a coupon for StelBel’s Wide World Of Inflatables.

And dumps his drink in his lap.

If he’d walk a mile for a camel, how far would he walk for a goat?

You bid two camels; I bid three goats.

Teresa, when people cause a commotion in San Francisco’s Yelp Talk forum, it is not uncommon for them to be accused of being me.

So I have that in common with you.

Of course, in my case, the accusations are sometimes true.

He drums his beat differently.

The issue that should be addressed is whether he satisfies his inflatable goat.

WHAT AN ANIMAL. GO BLOW.

Let’s just be clear about this, before I recommend she end your misery with any and all appropriate means. Just what “unmet needs” are you talking about?

But the second hand smoke will kill you.

I’m so naive: I didn’t believe it, but one can actually buy an inflatable goat, and it has this kind of connotation. http://www.amazon.com/Pipedream-Products-Blow-Billy-Goat/dp/B0016399DY

well!doesn’t that just get my goat!

you cant fool me.thats not a real bunny…

You’ve got a problem. Its called under inflation.

He should hook up with the sheep guy in Sweden.

Louise Bourgeois’s drawing reminds of Thurber’s amorphous woman embracing a house. But without the bottom half of B’s woman Thurber’s woman, evocative as she is, would never attract a mate to make the house a home.

A day late, but here’s more on Laura de Force Gordon:http://wlh-static.law.stanford.edu/papers/GordonL-Hawkins97.pdf

Her public life seems to have started with Spiritualism, a mid-nineteenth century religious movement that included freedom of conscience and freedom from outside authorities. She married at the age of 24, in 1862 (the dress in the blog picture looks like the dresses typical of the Civil War era). After various travels she and her husband ended up in California. She wrote for a local newspaper, and eventually went on to own and operate two different newpapers.

Her careers as a sufragette, lobbyist and lawyer are woven together. She was a skilled lobbyist, getting bills through the California legislature. One of those bills was an 1878 proposal by another suffragette, Clara Foltz; known as “The Women Lawyers’ Bill,” it was designed to allow women greater freedom in their choice of education and careers. This came in handy a few months later, when Gordon and Foltz entered law school. They were turned out after attending a few lectures. They then launched two separate law suits (the idea being that the school would have a harder time fighting on two fronts), and during the course of the trial finished educating themselves on the law. They won, and a year later Gordon was a lawyer.

Gordon seems to have done quite well as a lawyer. She defended a least three clients against murder charges,getting then acquitted. That included one man whose original defense was that he had intended to kill someone else (apparently in self-defense). She also had a fine contempt for lawyers who tried to win cases by their delaying tactics.

Some web sites suggest she was a lesbian. The only evidence for this is the statement in the 1879 time capsule that she was “a lover of her own sex.” These words could just as likely refer to her work for women’s rights. iPrior to her retirement she had little time for a private life, and apparently she divorced her husband because he was a jerk. (There’s a lot of incomplete information here She adopted a boy after her divorce, but the kid’s name and heritage are uncertain; he may have been a nephew, or the child of one of her clients.)

I’m still Teresa Burritt.

P.S. Oxnate, you have your conspiracy theories, I have mine. Ha.

My insatiable goat can’t fly? Such a complicated language English is.

Send him the rubber sheets and olive oil.

This is kind of like last night. After Wed eve running club we go to the brewpub to rehydrate and have dinner. Toward the end of the evening there was a guy hitting on the bartender almost this subtly. She did look kinda like an updated version of the woman in the comic. He, alas, did not look like an updated version of the guy.

Yeesh!

To his credit, the goat was horny.

Montgomery Clift is 18 or 19 in that Broadway still. What a baby! Blessed with exceptional charisma and exceptional acting ability, he was Marlon Brando’s only rival, when both in their primes, when it came to actors possessing both.

@ Bill Thompson — thank you for that. I would never even know Ms. Gordon existed if it weren’t for Frog Applause and she had a great life story.

Funny, funny comments today!

@x_Tech and @Linguist

end-of-the-summer sales going on now!

costumes, too!

There’s an inflatable sheep called a “Love Ewe”

Re: THE LONE RANGER OPENING THEMEOh, Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels, Where are you now, masked man , and loyal companion ?Riding out of the West To the trumpeting strains of William Tell’s Overture,Shouting Hi Ho Silver, Away…And shooting bad guys with silver bullets Always wounding, never killing Misunderstood, but leaving people to wonder“Who was that masked man?”Let us return, then, to those thrilling days of yesteryear…Where, in our innocence, we thrilled to feats of daring-do ,Where good guy wore white hats and rode on white horses.And I, like Tonto, cry:" Get ’em up, Scout !"

Re “Vigorous Manhood”….The younger one looks younger and the older one has the youngest escort.

Did some guy really use that line on Teresa Burritt?

He would have a better chance to score with a poem.‘You with your fair face and your eyes so bluecan do for me what no goat can do!’Girls really go for that kind of stuff.

Frog Applause feeds dirty-mindedness. Sorry, someone had to say it.

I think that most men are disgusting perverts if left to their own devices. Though each in their own way. Certainly not all of us are fans of the inflatable goat.

As Gene Wilder made clear in the Woody Allen movie, only real sheep can provide fulfillment.

No. No. The judges are telling me that Projection has been disqualified. Denial moves from 2nd to take the Gold. Dirty Thoughts now takes the Silver. And Teresa claims the Bronze.

Me thinks he doth protest too much.

Hey, I was in safety. We had blue badges and red ones – I never got to be a red monitor (leader), probably because I never knew what the hqiz was going on. But my entire school career was like that…

I’m sorry. Frog Applause seems to be having trouble loading this morning. I’ll get my whipping boy on that right away.

Run, lady.

He should try a billy goat. Then it would either be the looney bin, hospital or monastery.

Great photos by L W Hine on the blog….where we were not so many years ago. Anyone know what the gal in the last picture is so carefully doing?

You might think the fast food joints could make their day on the savoury bacon-cheese pie, but however you spell it savory’s not in their lexicon.