Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 21, 2018

and if there is one thing I cannot abide, it is substitution failure.

I have no idea what this is or means. I looked it up, saw the word “linguistics” and knew it was over my head. Maybe users like LINGUIST and THE OLD WOLF can help. Teresa must get some kind of sick thrill throwing out these obscure words and phrases, realizing that only a small subset of people can decipher them. Twisted Sister Tee.

Your lips are moving, I cannot hear

Your voice is soothing, but the words aren’t clear

You don’t sound different, I’ve learned the game

I’m looking through you, you’re not the same

—Looking Through You; The Froggals.

Stay tuned for next week’s episode of our hit new show, Lexical Integrity, where we’ll have a whole NEW flash card for your wonder and bemusement.

I would get this if I could see an x-ray.

The school district where I used to work once issued a binder just brimming with these kinds of phrases by which you were supposed to critique your own work.

Everybody hated the damned things, but apparently some slick company had convinced the superintendant that worker output would increase if we just spent two hours a day filling out the forms and discussing them with our supervisors. Yeah.

The day this expensive nonsense was dispensed with, the dumpsters were over-flowing with the binders and their attendant detritus.

Read the description below image, which is in fine print..

Also, for your consideration:

substitution opacity = referential failure ….

4-21, National Surprise Drug Test Day

Choice blindness.

The Froggals croaked 50 years ago.

She’s standing on a word bubble..

Leave it to Betty, to call a crock a crock.

My references are never opaque! I’m an Open Book!

Obscure, maybe.

Failure, sometimes.

But I don’t need a ‘50s TV model (a.k.a. Leopold’s Mom at Scary Gary, for the cognoscenti) to advertise my failures, thank you; I allow the victims to heal their own wounds, as would any self-respecting villain….

He looks like he’s used to her odd signs.