Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 18, 2011

It’s a poor gong-farmer who can’t raise friable nightsoil…

As well it should be. Hang your head in shame.

Re blog: We feel the love, too.

You sound like the fractured-English subtitles to a Japanese adventure film. And you dress like clowns! You guys should both be ashamed of yourselves!

Re: Blog“Statistically Improbable Phrases, Statimprophrases or SIPs constitute a system developed by Amazon.com to compare all of the books they index in the Search Inside! program and find phrases in each that are the most unlikely to be found in any other book indexed.1 The system is used to find the most nearly unique portions of books for use as a summary or keyword.SIP is also used more generally to refer to a search string likely to generate meaningful results from a search engine; that is, a string whose chance of occurring in a desirable result is much greater than its chance of occurring in a non-desirable result.”-Wikipediafrog + applause has to be one of the most Statistically Improbable Phrases I’ve ever read.

The “Froggaplause” site looks like an example of typical Asian piracy. x_tech nailed it – “Frog Applause” is about as statistically likely as “The Old Wolf’s Anaphylactic Aardvark.”

Re Blog, I noticed several spelling versions of FA on the page. It most likely is pirated because they know the mighty GoCmx overlords won’t do anything to help Teresa resolve this issue. FWIW, the website is on wix.com a creative site server based in NY & Tel Aviv. They have a link to report abuse.

Re comic: You’re funning Duffy’s blog aren’t you?

Is the party of the first part actually carrying a doctor’s bag and a Hoover upright?

it all sounds like a bunch of s#%* to me

How embarrassing

If it’s not friable then it’s not likely to be fungible, but it MAY be fungible.

hm, I wonder if an enterprising dentist ever hung up a shingle in hell specializing in gnashed teeth repair?

AND it don’t stink too!

I bet your dying to eat a plate of my nightshade?

I can decode this one. In Indonesian language shame or shyness, ‘kemaluan’, can also be translated as penis. So if you say to a person, ‘Ah, jangan malu!’ Don’t be ashamed, you might get the reply, ‘Tetapi kemaluan saya besar!’ My shame is great. Also, my dick is big. Snigger.

Ewww…

Did the “Spare” post make anybody else think of a Pez dispenser?

What a cute froggie, Ms M.

A remarkable number of people have expressed sympathy with the woman who subjected a TSA agent to a little enhanced groping of her own. Those who don’t sympathize seem to fall into two groups, those who believe that the the enhanced pat-down is reserved for malcontents who refuse the scan and those who believe that the only alternative to TSA abuse is being blown up by terrorists. I can assure you that the first is not true. I was recently subjected to both for no apparent reason. As for the second… TSA has long argued that they could not tell us of their many successes because it would compromise their effectiveness. They recently blew that argument by announcing their success in finding a small amount of C4 in a passenger’s luggage… personally I suspect it might have been their first success.

@androgenoide & MisngNOLAA while back I heard an interview with the head of Israeli airport security and he said that everything we are doing is wrong and doesn’t work, PERIOD!It’s a shame they’re wasting our money on useless procedures. More stuff get through than they are willing to admit.

Oh, Teresa, please get back on the Greyhound, we’re traveling first class.

end of cursive? we have comic sans!

Here is the page at wix.com for reporting copyright infringement. Teresa has to do it as she is the copyright owner.