Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 22, 2012

Adopting a pet will not mean fewer “moisture” issues in your drama-filled life.

Some people just like the sound of their own voices. And their shower curtains. Maybe their pets….

Just don’t get the rubber shower curtains because, when they are new, your guests will think that you just put away a blow-up sex doll.

It’s not important.

Re blog, Point of display:.She gives her husband what every night?

“….which means more moisture in the bathroom.”Isn’t that why it’s called a “water closet”?

Curtains, foiled again!

Shower Kurt n?

Call me Fido or give me ear plugs.

Interesting that, so far, the animal has been identified as a dog. To me, it’s obviously a cat ! Short ears, long tail, long legs…The “cat” is simply so tired of her “shower curtain rants”…. and who could blame him(her)?

Imperative to get one’s daily quota of Horlicks.

‘Lady, stop boring the life out of me and get a husband’.

Todays strip reminds me of the Hermann Hesse description of his German landlady’s cleaning habits … all that scrubbing and bleaching.

…the things that come to mind when you are walking under the stars…

I dispensed with shower curtains years ago, but now I still have issues trying to remove the mold in my personal hygiene efforts.

who cant love hairy bugs…

Ah yes, Kitty, that is the quandary and burden of the introvert in a world that celebrates the extrovert.

Yes, I agree, it is looking most kitty-like; but on the other hand it is not acting very kitty-like. What cat do you know that “asks” to do anything let alone do something it doesn’t want too? This is clearly a cat with self esteem issues.

My guess is that this rescued cat has had enough of this lady’s yappity yapping, and would rather move back to the animal shelter and hopefully be adopted by a less annoying person.

Spray curtain with Lysol after each use, this keeps the mold down.

When most people think of Bletchley Park and the breaking of the Enigma code they think of Alan Turing but there were thousands who worked there… polyglots, polymaths, chess masters… and 80% of them were women. Their electromechanical computer, the Bombe, sucked up a lot of electrical power and ran hot. Rumor has it that there was a room full of women mathematicians who worked all day stripped down to their underwear to keep cool… it has been described as a nerd’s wet dream.

BTW It seems to be general knowledge these days that “girls aren’t into computers” and “women don’t have an aptitude for math” but these observations are not consistent with history. Women, from Ada Lovelace to Grace Hopper, have played key roles in computation from the beginning and, before there were electromechanical computers, mathematical tables were generally compiled by rooms full of women working with tables of 10 place logarithms.

@blog: WRESTLER: LITTLE DARLING DAGMAR reminds me of: http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/0,,201380-671871,00.html Too bad I can’t find the full song on YouTube.

…that bruneck aint got no boobs…

Re blog:’We’re on our way to FranceWe’re on our way to Francewhere we’ll fight in the trenchesand bleep in our pants’.Understandably, my songwriting career never took off. But never mind, my invention of the self-cleaning shower curtain will be a blessing to mankind, and bring much needed relief to cat-kind.

Re the blog: Irving Berlin’s “Yip-Yip-Yaphank”

Irving Berlin wrote “Yi-Yip-Yaphank” as a musical revue during WW I:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Yip_Yaphank

Most of the songs appear lost, or at least too obscure to find on the net. Given the quality of most WW I home-front songs, this is not a tragic loss to the arts. The only song that’s survived in popular memory is “How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning.” It’s interesting that “God Bless America” was written for this revue, but Berlin cut it as too “sticky.”

Part of the title song, “We’re On Our Way To France,” made it into a 1943 movie and can be foiund on YouTube, but it doesn’t sound right. Maybe that’s because music of that era was recorded acoustically; musicians and singers accomodated themselves to a recording technology which favored louder noises and higher tones (Electrical recordings didn’t begin until 1925).

You can find a selection of WW I musical recordings here:

http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/index.htm

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=12&smtID=6

Some are openly racist (“My Meatless Day” and “They’ll Be Mighty Proud in Dixie Of Their Old Black Joe” are two). Others are so xenophobic (“Don’t Bite The Hand That’s Feeding You”) that they could still be popular with some people today. But there are also trench songs and camp songs, which were popular among American and English soldiers. There’s “Over There,” recorded by Enrico Caruso, Jim Europe’s jazz take on “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down On The Farm?” and the full version of Ivor Novello’s “Keep The Home Fires Burning.”

TreeRabbit, you have definite potential as a trench-song writer. That’s not too far from some of the lyrics in “Oh What A Lovely War!” (a musical and 1969 movie that compiled several dozen songs from the war)

“I’d rather stay at home,around the streets to roam,and live on the earnings of a lady whore.I don’t want a bay’net in me belly,I don’t want me buttocks shot away.I’d rather stay in England,In merry, merry England,And fornicate this bleeding life away.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngcdq3sYte0&feature=relmfu

No self-respecting dog is going to listen to that senseless blather from a woman intoxicated by Clorox fumes. Only a cat would do that !