Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 22, 2016

Next time carry an Epipen.

I’m not allergic, but I still wouldn’t like it.

Honey, Bee Good——Johnny B 1 Better…

Oh yeah! I’ve seen those guys. They really aren’t hornets though. That is a bald-faced lie. They are wasps. They had a huge nest under the eaves in a corner of my house. They stung exactly one person, who is always having odd things happening that nobody ever believes to be true.Priceless.

Did you leave a window open?

Just a lot of cheeep talk.

I once got slapped in the face by a bald chick. Does that count? It really stung.

Was it the color green?

I had a little tiny wasp crawl up my sleeve one day when I was at the local post office to drop off something that needed to be returned to the sender. It stung me seven times, and it looked like the dipper portion of Ursa Major on my forearm. It got back outside okay after stinging me and presumably lived happily ever after. I’m pretty sure I was nowhere near death from it, though.

The other birds are sympathetically mimicking the speaker’s posture.

Come for the lame, stay for the tonterias.

(fingers crossed that this sends Tee to the Google Translate app)

BREAKING NEWS!:@Rotifer ThalwegI believe the poster in the window says we will be having Tonteria Tuesdays now. I can hardly wait!

I would not doubt the veracity of your claim, Big Yellow Bird! Not even when it appears in a lame comic strip!Of course, there are those who suspect that I’ve been wrong before….Why pick on the hornet? It was probably a defensive sting. Were you about to eat it?

Yes.That is correct.The Blue Bird of Happy Meals.

Others are drawn to scale

Looks like they are in a cage.

Well it’s the whole thing about, you know, feeling secure and at home and stuff. Walls and stings.. feh.