Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 30, 2021

Fair Froglandians;

Rest assured you’ll be kept together in the family ponds.

Kindly follow the Link to get on The List.

https://tinyurl.com/LittleLameLetters

And not just on social media, either!

In the Cloud, it’s ALL Big Sky Country.

I’d rather watch Repo Man again…

For the Frog Blog (#FB00320): https://bugguide.net/node/view/42236

There are three species of many-plume moths in America north of Mexico: Alucita montana, Alucita adriendenisi, and Alucita lalannei.

Lots of things go missing all the time. I blame wormholes. What else could explain that missing sock, the tupperware lid or that last cookie. Well, the cookie was probably Vlad.

David Paulides has put together a fascinating history of some baffling missing person cases that all share strange similarities. Missing 411. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OnBCOqLuLY

My wife has a worklist. I try to disappear, but she’s like a bloodhound on a mission.

In the future they will be doing television different. The boys and girls will hop a flight and capture for entertainment in their living rooms. The future will finally come to pass.

Tell your person you have the flu and the pandemic reasons will creep in if not careful…

Too sad and too real to be funny, but important to be aware of.

Especially when they enter that zone of the BERMUDA TRIANGLE! Never to be sen again….ever. To this day, speculation is its a time tunnel to another realm…..we’ve lost so many toads there….

The teaser for the new ‘Cold Case Files’ series. New, this fall!

For the blog, I have a collection of maps. Many are run-of-the-mill, AAA-type you used to be able to get for the asking at a gas station. Others are more specialized, like historical maps of Manhattan, Native American tribes, the Silk Road. I also have a set of California Public Utilities Commission Distance Table maps, which are bound in heavy pasteboard in a book (codex?) about 18 inches wide by 26 inches high. My two dear sons bought 19th Century maps of pre-Civil War U.S. (Virginia had yet to split up), and a French Map from the same period of the tribes of Western Europe during the Roman Imperial period. Maps were the only reason I subscribed to National Geographic for all those years.

It’s the singularity’s fault.

sadly it is mostly young women – Number of missing persons files in the U.S. by age and gender 2020Published by Statista Research Department, Mar 10, 2021 While the fear of being kidnapped may persist for one’s entire life, in 2020 the number of missing persons under the age of 21 was much higher than those 21 and over, with 209,375 females under 21 reported missing, and 59,369 females over the age of 21 reported missing. https://www.statista.com

According to NamUs (National Missing and Unidentified Persons System), more than 600,000 persons go missing in the United States every year. Anywhere between 89 percent to 92 percent of those missing people are recovered every year, either alive or deceased. So the total disappearance of 60,000 people in the USA every year is common.

This reminds me of shopping with any female … an dats da trut, Jacqueline …!

MACE that will fit in your purse or pocket.

There are thousands of men who would live to find her.

Sometimes, there is no one there to care.

Whatever happened to “That Girl”?

We have always been here, now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkWhKO4Lr8A

The best serial killers always make sure the Disappeared are never found. Cremation is not easy. Lime pits are useful but hard to hide. Eating them and leaving the bones for the pigs is good….

And, to be sure, it helps if the Serial Killer is a sweet and innocent-looking young woman.

That’s a good reason to never trust them….