Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 17, 2016

My grandfather enlisted in the military right after he graduated from OSU in 1917. Seeing this cartoon helps me understand why he was so quick to leave college behind.

Hence the origins of the award winning Broadway musical, Chupacabras Wear Hats.

You’re looking at it through a college filter. The college filter consists of a lack of time and attention to anything other than the pursuit of academic proficiency and social interactions, in varying degrees of importance.Unfiltered Image

AOK, He’s Got Your Goat.The Old Goat Knows.

That goat looks like an attempt to rip off Sidney Smith’s Old Doc Yak, a popular (honest!) cartoon strip from the era: http://www.toonopedia.com/oldocyak.htm

When Quentin Roosevelt was the supply officer at Issoudun, he received an unarmed Nieuport to use as a liaison aircraft. His men named it “Old Doc Yak” for reasons lost to history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Roosevelt#/media/File:Quentin_Roosevelt_in_Nieuport_trainer.jpg

Frog Applause applauds nonsense? Who knew?

Having used the goat to complete his goatee, he’s now giving it away. Goatee-less goats always look weird, but it’s uncertain as to how it would help the receiver acquire a beard; a moustache perhaps. One of the imponderables of Sunday lame.

@: Happy, Happy, Happy!!!In his earliest adventures, Link had a great deal of difficulty, until he learned how to properly wield the bunny.

While oddly drawn to goats, and their weird pupils, I was unable to draw goats and spent most of my early adult years alone.

We have only the foreign-looking officer’s word for it that the creature in question is in fact a goat. I think it may be a chihuahua. That would explain why the poor schlep in bed can’t fall asleep, for sure!But I unhesitatingly agree that this 1918 college cartoon is lame and mostly nonsensical. Does that make sense?

BUNNY!

I dunno . . . a student dreaming about an anal-retentive English prof who doubles as a ROTC instructor? “‘You got my goat’ is not the correct grammatical construction! Drop and give me fifty, mister!”