Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 17, 2012

Get your Rat Bis-Kit now!“My little treasure, my heart’s delight…”

A rat is a terrible thing to waste.

For some reason I find the turkey-skin Mickey to be one of the most terrifying images ever posted on Frog Blog. I’m afraid Disney’s next acquisition will be the Potter franchise, and this is what the Dementors will look like…

Rat is Pastis prime . . . ☻

The blonde looks like he’s just TRYING to have fun.

Wanna see my walnetto?

: )

Ah my little mignonetteThis comic is way over my headDrat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MignonetteTake your choce.

Turkey skin Mickey reminds me of something from Star Trek Voyager.

i wish mom could sill comprehend photo images.she collected Bees and she would have loved that purse.(sigh)

District Court Judge Mike Norman should not be siting behind the bench.judges are supposed to uphold the law.forcing your religious beliefs on someone is Unconstitutional.

I wonder if District Court Judge Mike Norman* was the inspiration behind You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma?

*(or, for that matter, Okie From Muskogee ?

instead of a mignonette how about a ratatouille?

FAWNAlsoAnd one I seem to not have a thumb of which is actually two fawns. The first one was taken a little over a month earlier than the other two shots so there’s a good chance the one in the first picture appears again.

LUMBERJACKSAnd they’re OK.

Agreed, a rat is a terrible thing to waste, but there’s no need to go all over-the-top dramatic and artsy-fartsy about it.

The first image by Phee made me think of the movie “Powder,” which happens to be one of my favorite offbeat SF films.

Pool Hall…..The exclaimation point after “Men” means that if you’re looking for men, that’s where they’ll be.

“In expressing my opinion of the English I shall be frank. If I see much that is admirable, I see much also that is imperfect and not infrequently my sense of this imperfection has been heightened by the conviction of so many English people that nothing but perfection dwells within their shores….

I shall be doing no more than thinking aloud, and those I address are those who move around me, the English among whom I live, whose interests are mine, and whose prejudices, to some extent, I have adopted. Honest I shall be, in so far as I shall try honestly to express my bias.

I am speaking about the English, not about the British. There is no question in this work of the Scots, proud, intelligent, religious and unfathomable. Nor the Welsh, minute, musical, clever and tempermental. I am not writing about the charming untruthful, bloodthirsty and unreliable Irish. I shall be exclusively concerned with the English, the unintellectual, restricted, stubborn, steady, pragmatic, silent and reliable English." - from The English: Are they Human?

Is this horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) with the candy corn on its head going to lower his head real fast andeat the corn as it falls past his mouth?

Re: Lame Argument

I had this student who was very physically disabled, and once he complained to me that no one ever made fun of him at school. It made him feel left out, he said. Everyone was so completely “okay with” his disability, he was included in everything except for disparaging jokes. He pointed out that even stand up comics steer clear of people with disabilities, even when they make all sorts of racist and sexist comments. He was completely disgusted with political correctness. It demoralized him.

Re: Lame in the blogI’m a T3 paraplegic, and so sick of PC that I never refer to myself as anything but a cripple. It is soo much better than being handicapable or alternately abled (barf). Some folks just need to get over themselves…

“ILLEGITIMATE ABSENTEEISM IS A FIRST COUSIN TO SLACKERISM”

If it’s legitimate absenteeism, your boss has ways of shutting that whole process down.

My take on this Whole LAME thing:I have been around handicapped people most of my life. My sister was born without ARMS OR LEGS! and does just fine. She is a college graduate and someone who has a fantastic outlook on life. She as well as I think this whole damn political correctness thing is, well just plain LAME AS HELL!!! It drives her nuts when people try to “classify” her “condition”, saying things like “physically challenged” She says “heck physically challenged is trying to run a marathon with a sore ankle, I’M A CRIPPLE!” Over the years we both have figured out that the so-called political correctness is really just the opposite, and is really designed so the so-called normal folk feel less guilty about it when referring to disabled people. One of the best (or dumbest) situations is when she has any kind of medical or insurance interview THE question almost ALWAYS comes up…. “DO YOU EXPECT YOUR CONDITION WILL CHANGE / IMPROVE IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR?” After much laughter over the years we came up with the best response " Yea, I’ve been sitting in miracle grow and I think a finger is sprouting, CAN YOU GUESS WHICH ONE!"

I was going to say something about the cooking log, but I see it has been answered. The center acts like a chimney, directing the heat at the bottom of the pan. Nice!

I’ve also almost missed the lame ‘lame’ thread. Here’s the source of my lame moniker and icon: http://tinyurl.com/c2mj9fu

I haven’t lived in Oakland for some fifteen years, but when I did, Lois the Pie Queen was one of the absolute best restaurants there. Food to die for. If you live there now, you could do worse than to go to Lois’s – if, of course, it’s still there. If not, let me know, okay?

MADE IN FRANCE“Un croissant bouffant” is fun to say in French. Yes, sometimes I’m easily entertained

And speaking of easily entertained, peeling potatoes outdoors is A SPRING IDYL?

Well it would hardly be a winter idyl.

No, Teresa, no problems or added buttons for me on the Blog, thank goodness. Same old lame old. (I love it, you know I do!)

For what it’s worth…More complete versions of that image (those that show the fourth panel) show the name “College Humor.” The College Humor website has a fairly complete series of those exercise cartoons attributed to Alex Watts, identified as a staff writer. (Although none of them appear on his personal blog…)

yes Teresa, there was a Google shadow presence for a day, but it disappeared and all is right with my world again, except for the one small fact that there’s no FA, but I’ll wait patiently…along with the rest of your loyal flock (is anybody else old enough to remember “pluck your magic twanger Froggie”? : }

Re: Blog picture of the Reverend Mrs. JH Vigal:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025841/1898-01-22/ed-1/seq-4.pdf

According to the 22 January 1898 issue of The Planet, an African-American newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, the Reverend Mrs JH Vigal was born in 1876, converted (presumably to the African Methodist Episcopal faith) in 1893, was married in August 1894 and started preaching in November 1894. Her husband was also a minister and called himself the Singing Evangelist . The couple were known as the Traveling Evangelists. Evidently the picture on the blog was a publicity shot handed to local newspapers to advertise their engagements.

“help Cecil, help…I’m coming Beanie Boy”….and then there wasMighty Mouse is on the way, Mighty Mouse is here to save the dayand Farfel (sp?) – N E S T L E S, Nestles makes the very best, chocolate, with the attendant clacking of his chops (he was, after all, wooden), and Mortimer Snerd, and Charlie McCarthy,andwho’s that knocking on my barrel? (a West coast show, maybe only to be found in the San Francisco Bay Area) (there was a puppet living in the barrel, who responded to the tv host knocking)blueskies you mentioned shows I never heard of, having lurked out here on the west coast all my life, did I miss some really great stuff?

Kuklapolitans originated from Chicago, which was also the home of Uncle Mistletoe, with Aunt Holly (and, among others, Tony Pony and Obadiah Pig), mainly a seasonal (Christmas) favorite, that also appeared in a few other markets where Marshall Field’s stores were prominent. Claude and Mary were, of course, on Super Circus, which also began in Chicago.

Kukla, Fran and Ollie . . . Captain Kangaroo . . . Mighty Mouse . . . congratulations, Teresa, on having so many of us old coots for fans!

I’ll just note that Beany and Cecil were a big influence on my punsterismness.

RE: Blog – The artist who painted the cover illustration for “DESERT LAW” was Norman Blaine Saunders (January 1, 1907– March 7, 1989) … he created illustrations for pulp magazines, paperbacks, men’s adventure magazines, comic books and trading cards.

I’m not advocating violence (I’m a lover, not a fighter), but if you’re going to battle to the death with another strong man I can’t think of a better reason to do it.

Re: Eva’s Polka-

Curse you, Frog Lady! Not just an ordinary earworm, an incredibly infectious one. I avoided it yesterday, clicked on it today, and now it’s permanently branded in my brain. AAARGH!!! Dum-diddy-dum-diddy-diddle-i-ay….

A black-and-white memory including Uncle Mistletoe.Uncle Mistletoe was a creation of Marshall Field’s; his Wieboldt’s rival was The Cinnamon Bear….

FOGThat’s nifty fog. Nothing like what we had here yesterday. Visibility was 40-50 feet. I had to cross US 52 to go do some dog sitting for my daughter and was nearly broadsided by a semi that was invisible until after I pulled out in front of it. But I did make it to the median safely where I was very very careful about crossing the other lanes.

Re: “Airplane” on the blog. The 747 is getting rinsed off to remove salt, grime and any other contaminants that might cause corrosion.

re: Groucho. Top strip looks like “Bringing Up Father” with Jiggs and Maggie (alphabetic listing, of course in case the P.C. watchdogs are in house).

SILK BACON SCARFCool! I wondered if there were any bacon scarves that looked, uh, crispier so it was off to Google. The Frog Blog was on the first page of a regular search and the top row of an image search. My search found only a couple of other bacon scarves, one being too garish and crude to consider and one that did look like crispier bacon but was supposed to represent a sunset.

Teresa, re: blog “Airplane” I expect that the water cannons are in recognition of, say, the Captain’s retirement flight, or to celebrate some other special occasion or person on board.

re: Airplane (11-23), I’m just guessing here, but seeing that it’s a Japan Air Lines plane, it’s possible that following the earthquake and nuclear accident, planes flying near the Fukushima area had to be hosed down in case of radioactive particles. Either that, or perhaps the plane flew near an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption, and needed to be cleaned… but I’m stickin’ with my first guess.

oops, just expanded the comments list and saw the correct answers… oh, well.

There’s nothing in the least odd about the sexualization of torture. Victims have always been tortured in order to demonstrate the moral superiority of the torturer and what could be more moral than sexuality? (In fact, in the current American political arena, the word ‘moral’ rarely refers to anything other than sexual behavior.) No, what struck me as odd was the ambiguity between crucifixion and impalement. I had always associated impalement with the ‘other’ Roman empire, the Byzantine and its heirs… (Vlad Dracul achieved more than a little fame for using it against the Turks.) But here, the references are all to the Western empire… Live and learn.

When shall we three (or a hundred and three) see Frog Applause again? Fire and thunder, over and under, place your bets, fire burn and cauldron bubble!

Who is that creepy-looking girl shown with Frog Applause? Is that the artist?

Just let me be clear, I would like to Tung Pei Pei.

Capt. Tony in Key West, used to have an electric car like the one on the blog. His was green and airbrushed with photos of himself.