Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 26, 2019

We didn’t start the fire….

Some one these would make for a weird embroidered cap such as PIG WAR VETERAN. Thank you for your service.

The seem to be several wars about food and animals.

Who is this Jenkins guy… and what’s the deal with his ear? Gotta look that up, assuming Teresa isn’t making up any of these wars.

The War of Jenkins’ Ear (known as Guerra del Asiento in Spain) was a conflict between Britain and Spain lasting from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742. Its unusual name, coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858, refers to an ear severed from Robert Jenkins, a captain of a British merchant ship. There is no evidence that supports the stories that the severed ear was exhibited before the British Parliament.

The seeds of conflict began with the separation of an ear from Jenkins following the boarding of his vessel by Spanish coast guards in 1731, eight years before the war began…

No Pants War? No No-Pants War?

These people are clearly not even trying, with all these cookie cutter wars.

Was there a Cookie Cutter War?

I guess the Great War (1914-1918) wasn’t so great after all. And I’m not surprised World War Two (1939-1945) didn’t make the list. It was such a rotten sequel that they cancelled the planned third part of the trilogy. Unless Disneycorp strikes again.

Every home in Froglandia has a working fireplace. Bogs in Froglandia are populated by comix brush. Comix brush is a dense wood that grows to only ten or twelve feet in height. It spreads by rhizomes, seeds, and by shedding. Froglandia winds can damage comix brush, and the broken twigs and branches that scatter can root and become new plants. Comix brush burns clean, with little ash or creosote. It doesn’t pop or burst. And it burns slow with a steady heat. An armful of comix brush can last for half a day, and a banked comix brush fire can still be live after a full day. On autumn days, it is a common sight for there to be hovercraft carrying comix brush piles from the bogs. Comix brush is otherwise a nuisance. Only the fact that it requires very wet and very poor soil has kept it from being eradicated entirely, in spite of its usefulness as a winter fuel source.

Golden Stool not Spool

The cartoon looks like the outline of a gingerbread man who was put up against the wall and shot with a variety of deadly cookie decorations.

Which war was that from?

How great would it be to be able to say, “My father fought in the Pig War”?

Frog Applause: Not only amusing entertainment, but educational as well.

The War of The Roses.

I’m sure all the lesser-known wars had major jingoistic emotions and demonizing of the enemy, just like all the wars that are more renowned. Sapristi! That’s a lot of wasted energy.

How come ‘renown’ doesn’t have a ‘k’ in it?

Just imagine if Teresa went all the way back to, say, Bronze Age conflicts. That would be one hell of a gingerbread man. Might have to make a big Twinkie out of it.

Was the Pasta War won by the Pastafarians?

So many wars started in the name of commerce/capitalism.

As in the aforementioned War of Jenkins’ Ear “… the British South Sea Company hoped to spur outrage against Spain, believing that a victorious war would improve Britain’s trading opportunities in the Caribbean.3 Also ostensibly providing the impetus to war against the Spanish Empire was a desire to pressure the Spanish not to renege on the lucrative asiento contract, which gave British slavers permission to sell slaves in Spanish America.”

caesar’s garlic, gallic wars

Nobody remember the format wars.

sing sing and song sing it loud sing it strong sing strong sing it everly way the whole knight long.

war (n.)late Old English wyrre, werre “large-scale military conflict,” from Old North French werre “war” (Old French guerre “difficulty, dispute; hostility; fight, combat, war;” Modern French guerre), from Frankish *werra, from Proto-Germanic *werz-a- (source also of Old Saxon werran, Old High German werran, German verwirren “to confuse, perplex”), from PIE *wers- (1) “to confuse, mix up”. Cognates suggest the original sense was “to bring into confusion.”Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian guerra also are from Germanic; Romanic peoples turned to Germanic for a “war” word possibly to avoid Latin bellum (see bellicose) because its form tended to merge with bello- “beautiful.” There was no common Germanic word for “war” at the dawn of historical times. Old English had many poetic words for “war” (wig, guð, heaðo, hild, all common in personal names), but the usual one to translate Latin bellum was gewin “struggle, strife” (related to win (v.)).

First record of war-time is late 14c. Warpath (1775) originally is in reference to North American Indians, as are war-whoop (1761), war-paint (1826), and war-dance (1757). War crime first attested 1906 (in Oppenheim’s “International Law”). War chest is attested from 1901; now usually figurative. War games translates German Kriegspiel (see kriegspiel).

peace (n.). mid-12c., “freedom from civil disorder,” from Anglo-French pes, Old French pais “peace, reconciliation, silence, permission” (11c., Modern French paix), from Latin pacem (nominative pax) “compact, agreement, treaty of peace, tranquility, absence of war” (source of Provençal patz, Spanish paz, Italian pace), from PIE root *pag- “to fasten” (which is the source also of Latin pacisci “to covenant or agree;” see pact), on the notion of “a binding together” by treaty or agreement.Replaced Old English frið, also sibb, which also meant “happiness.” Modern spelling is 1500s, reflecting vowel shift. Sense in peace of mind is from c. 1200. Used in various greetings from c. 1300, from Biblical Latin pax, Greek eirene, which were used by translators to render Hebrew shalom, properly “safety, welfare, prosperity.”

Sense of “quiet” is attested by 1300; meaning “absence or cessation of war or hostility” is attested from c. 1300. As a type of hybrid tea rose (developed 1939 in France by François Meilland), so called from 1944. Native American peace pipe is first recorded 1760. Peace-officer attested from 1714. Peace offering is from 1530s. Phrase peace with honor first recorded 1607 (in “Coriolanus”). The U.S. Peace Corps was set up March 1, 1962. Peace sign, both the hand gesture and the graphic, attested from 1968.

I remember learning about the War of Jenkins’ Ear around 60 years ago., so I thought I might recognize some of the others, but no! Bravo Teresa! (I wonder if the Dirty Wars have anything to do the character of that name who is currently lurking in the wings of James Allen’s Mark Trail.)

Came across this quote I found interesting because of who said it: “Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”

Has Froglandia been involved in any wars?

Getting bogged down in the Glorious History of Froglandia! I forgot to turn off the oven, and yet my cookies are only half-baked….