Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 15, 2022

A familiar story if a bit dated.

I hope that whatever this is (waves hands about) is consensual. If so, carry on.

…looks like this book of poetry has been checked out plenty of times…

… Loiku …

…the god of poetry…

…every relationship leaves it mark on you…

…she was always good for a good laugh…

…lyrics to: Peeping John by the Alledged …

…it was recorded on the main floor of the Froglandia Bath Mat Factory during the strike for lower wages and fewer benefits…

…too many happy tickles lead to lazy students…

… yelled one worker…

… I have a right to less wages…

…this is Froglandia, damn it!…

…why don’t we just take the running car?…

…yelled another…

…paying me more cheapens me…

…yelled someone…

…how can the bath mat factory owner pay for a trip to the moon if he pays me quality wages?…

…demanded a women with a sign that read: I have a right to believe dumb things….

…don’t give in, whispered the CEO…

…the BMF will not be part of this socialist propaganda…

…he yelled out the window…

…Free potty breaks to every fifth worker…

…never, the crowd roared back…

…to ten or nothing!…

It all depends upon whom is doing the giggling. And also why, one should suppose. Is the only record there on the dance card?

The round house should be no stoner,

Take a leak in the corner…

Kix are here for a round house,

Don’t square up and pounce her.

Mob Leader, “Jehovah Witnesses, ya no good people. I don’t want no witnesses”.

Hey, I recognize some of those dates, having lived through them.

No one was quite sure why the witnesses were assembled in the first place. They loitered for a time, but it was an odd mix of relief and disappointment with which they dispersed.

The jury had a Fink

They couldn’t find the link

The judge ruled dismissed

And the people were pissed.

Nothings worse than getting the giggles

Especially when in church

you can’t stop all the wiggles.

Then you’re left in a lurch.

I would have preferred “word magnet” font.

Check out those legs!

Checked out so much she’s a bit overdue

Needs a new spine; now it’s time to renew

So many “witnesses”

Have been so dismissive

And her cover’s a bit out-of-date, too.

It’s the thought that counts and the thoughtless that count.

Youtube, or it never happened, or is, at the very least, misinformation.

Gaggled short poems … to wit, Wikipedia revealed this:

-A notable example was composed by boxer Muhammad Ali. On June 4, 1975, after giving a speech at Harvard University, Ali was discussing poetry on stage with journalist George Plimpton. When asked for the shortest poem of all time, Plimpton recited “Fleas” as above [Adam / Had ‘em], and Ali responded, "I’ve got one: Me? Whee!!”

Freaked out by a cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af4OST_oHjw

P.J. O’Rourke, irreverent author and commentator, dead at 74

O’Rourke was a Toledo, Ohio, native who evolved from long-haired student activist to wavy-haired scourge of his old liberal ideals, with some of his more widely read take downs appearing in a founding counterculture publication, Rolling Stone. His career otherwise extended from the early years of National Lampoon to a brief stint on “60 Minutes” in which he represented the conservative take on “Point/Counterpoint” to frequent appearances on NPR’s game show “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/p-j-o-rourke-irreverent-author-and-commentator-dead-at-74/ar-AATTYNQ?ocid=msedgntp

Thanks to the rapist Trump Supreme Court brought to you by the Federalist Society.

I read about it on Frog Face Book.

Disturbing ambiguity in today’s ‘toon. Let’s hope all ends well….

The Statue of Lenin is a 16 ft (5 m) bronze statue of Russian Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It was created by Bulgarian-born Slovak sculptor Emil Venkov and initially put on display in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1988, the year before the Velvet Revolution. In 1993, the statue was bought by an American who had found it lying in a scrapyard. He brought it home with him to Washington State but died before he could carry out his plans for formally displaying it.

Since 1995, the statue has been held in trust waiting for a buyer, standing on temporary display for the last 27 years on a prominent street corner in Fremont. It has become a local landmark, frequently being either decorated or vandalized. The statue has sparked political controversy, including criticism for being communist chic and not taking the historic meaning of Lenin and communism seriously (or taking it too seriously), or by comparing the purported acceptance of such a charged political symbol to the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials. Much of the debate ignores the statue’s private ownership and installation on private property, with the public and government having virtually no say in the matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin_(Seattle)