Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 23, 2022

…and shirtless…

…perhaps pantless…

…only just now has Cupid realized that the other gods were playing a massive joke on him…

…uncle Artica went there once to check on the Borg 9…

…they found the lost WWII boat that held the last of the McHale’s Navy beans…

…they were frozen, but still fresh…

…they also found some frozen Girlscout chocolate caramel turtles…

…they came with a card that stated…

…Cupid is stupid…

…that Ares…

…so there were turtles after all…

You want to loose a hail of arrows at something? Pick the squiggles; the penguins have enough troubles, what with the recent polar heat waves.

If you are looking for someone to blame, I’d make St. Patrick a suspect. Dude had it in for reptiles. This is good however, because it means another drinking holiday.

Not to worry. It’s a shell game.

Mr, Tur-tell is out by the well. Mr. Liz-ard is in the courtyard. Okay, tell them Mr. Rab-bit is here with the.. fertilizer!

Biologists at the Froglandia Bath Mat Factory immediately sprang into action, creating a genetically modified terrapin that is able to survive at extreme low temperatures by consuming the tiny bits of organic matter found in ice and snow. Dubbed “Project Hell Shell”, it was a complete success. Two hundred thousand Hell Shell turtles were released into the wilds of Antarctica in 1986, enough to sustain a viable breeding population. Due to their extraordinary ability to blend with the background, none have ever been seen again. But they are out there. While their thermal retention from internal bacterial colonies cannot be detected by currently available instrumentation designed for IR imaging, the bacterial processes occasionally result in a tiny poot, which CAN be detected.

In the face of this shocking finding, the Gap®, L.L. Bean®, Torrid®, and Banana Republic® pledged to provide 10,000 turtleneck sweaters and dickies to the scientists currently at work there. It was a laughable misconstruction of the issue.

Stick with butter not margins.

The shell of turtles are so hard but an alligator/croc can crush it with no problem!

Their progression is slow but lives long enough for generations.

They love the warm climates and they are on every continent except .Antarctica…

I never had turtle soup and never will….to destroy a beautiful creature is unthinkable!

In .Florida, I visited the Rescued Sea turtles….giant turtles…..some had missing fins from boats, fishing line entwined, bites from other sea creatures! Then they release them back into the ocean when they’re healthy…some with prothesis fins!

Amazing…Nature

The trouble with Scribbles … complicated by scrambled thoughts of evolutionary trivia … time to have launch & take a knap walk ….

And like Ireland…snakeless

Both of the planet’s poles experience extreme heat, and Antarctica breaks records

Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) warmer than average.

Weather stations in Antarctica shattered records Friday as the region neared autumn. The two-mile high (3,234 meters) Concordia station was at 10 degrees (-12.2 degrees Celsius),which is about 70 degrees warmer than average, while the even higher Vostok station hit a shade above 0 degrees (-17.7 degrees Celsius), beating its all-time record by about 27 degrees (15 degrees Celsius), according to a tweet from extreme weather record tracker Maximiliano Herrera.

The coastal Terra Nova Base was far above freezing at 44.6 degrees (7 degrees Celsius).

It caught officials at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, by surprise because they were paying attention to the Arctic where it was 50 degrees warmer than average and areas around the North Pole were nearing or at the melting point, which is really unusual for mid-March, said center ice scientist Walt Meier.

“They are opposite seasons. You don’t see the north and the south (poles) both melting at the same time,” Meier told The Associated Press Friday evening. “It’s definitely an unusual occurrence.”

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/19/1087752486/antarctica-record-heat-arctic

Let me get this straight: Antarctia-Antarctia is IsIs Turtleless. Those darn Isis terrorists have even set up in parts of A-A and wiped out all the turtles. Why isn’t the news reporting on this shocking development? It’s hard enough for a turtle to walk or swim to A-A, even harder to survive once there. We must act! Raise your bathmats as shields!

We’re already missing you, Old Wolf!

That’s just what the Germans would have you think.

I like turtles.

But full of Lovecraftian goodness.

Well, if you had a half-frozen centaur firing his reflex bow, favorite of horse-archers, at your turtles, you’d soon be out of hot turtle soup and stuttering, too!

Antartica is covered with Turtle Wax, wax on, turtle off.

No turtles in Antarctica?

GAMERA WOULD LIKE A WORD WITH YOU.

https://tinyurl.com/icyturtle

Is it turtleless or turtle-free!? Can’t have those little things stamping over all, as they’d just ruin everything.

Turtle Shell Nut Cup.

A favorite of catchers 22 nut cups everywhere.

Stir the pot with turtle Shell Spork holder. Nice housewarming gift in the Antarctic.

…the turtle beat the hare…

My ding a ling across Turtle Creek…

Those snappers all around my feet.,.

My hands on my ding a ling.

Send Mitch McConnell down there to rectify the lack.

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