Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 20, 2022

Frida knows that being uncon-sarned is as Zen as a field of nesting stones.

Pre-owned statue of limitation only-begotten of two hyphens in writing class is a Frida original.

If stone theft was all I had to worry about, I would be pretty pleased, though I suppose Antartica is no picnic, even though you don’t have to worry about ants. Regurgitated fish is the baby penguins Gerbers. If you want to get ahead, you have to pull yourself up by your chinstraps and kick that stone down the road on home. Pebble pilfering penguins putting parenting prior to politeness.

The purpose of making a nest out of a pile of stones is to keep the chicks above the cold water from melted ice and snow that can flood the colony nesting site.

http://www.photovolcanica.com/PenguinSpecies/Chinstrap/ChinstrapPenguinPhotos.html

It only courtship were so easy!

“The use of ‘and/or’ as we have said before is ‘at best … ’equivocal, obscure and meaningless,’ at worst ‘slovenly, improper and a linguistic abomination.’ ’ Kennedy v. Papp, 294 Ark. 88, 741 S.W.2d 625 (Ark. 1987).

If Frida’s cool with it, I’m cool with it.

Frida has meatier matters to charcoal broil.

i have a pet rock you can use

Give that hand puppet a cigar!

(And a scholarship to law school.)

Rocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1AaCy-yU9c

If any kleptoparasitic chins strapped penguin comes anywhere near my nest….why, I’ll, I’ll, peck and stomp them to death… those are MY stones, I hunted for them, I carried them, and no one is gonna take them away from my nest….got it, buster?

Then Frida said: “I will keeel you” …!

( Ach )

I steal / borrow stones all the time. Penguins who live in glass houses…

I’m pretty sure you could turn a chinstrap into a sling to throw nest stones with lethal force.

Pre-owned stones. Sounds like an alternative to a lemonade stand. Get your pre-owned stones right here! Only thrown once at a church window (insert other targets here).

Punch line

Big red rock eater.

Quite quickly I have been given two shots of Botox in my neck for the faded cervical dystonia.

…my pet rock finds this very offensive…

…undocumented stones should not have any writes …

…so though I never thought of stoning as offensive before…

… nor cared…

…I am now properly peeved…

…I’m gonna Disney- fie these chinstrap ‘flightless’ birds…

…give them negative reviews on rotten apples…

…so the lame will walk…

…and not stand for those kneeling …

…I don’t know why I’m mad…

…but the Froglandia Bath Mat Factory is the only place I get my bathmats…

…and chinstrap are trying to ruin my childhood…

Aren’t ALL the stones pre-owned, on this beach?

Frida pretty much does not give a hoot about any of these pressing problems of our times. In Froglandia’s parliament, the Special SubCommittee to Investigate Chinstrap Penguins has asked for its remit to be extended two more years and it budget to be increased by F$100m as it struggles to find a solution to the lack of stones….

“I would not feel so all alone…

Everybody must get stoned!”