Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 24, 2013

A plague of sick days for orange fever.

If I had to choose I’d rather have an extended case of measles. Just measling around the house in a luxurious house coat .. ah.

A pox on all plagues!

A French plague upon your house! Aye, and your chicken coop.

Anyone notice the new word—as far as I know—coined on Get Fuzzy today? Handage—should become part of our vocabulary.

“I’m sorry, but foreign diseases are not covered by your medical insurance.”

Who cut your hair?

Methinks he has an eye-boil brewing as we speak…

Bubonic, pneumonic or mnemonic?

I used up all of my sick days so I called in dead.

MMM! I love eating the marrow from bones. That steak looks pretty tasty too.

By the way, today’s comic has achieved visual perfection in my opinion. Who would have guessed that a deadly contagious disease could cause such lovely art to spring into existence?

Ye olde crier and ox-cart, the original public health care service. Bring Out Your Dead! Good times.

I suspect that Bubonique might last longer than 74 days.

Hmm. You do look rather plague-stricken. Do you also feel wretched? Does your employer provide a sick-leave benefit?Do you still have a job? Unclean!

More Americans died of Spanish Flu than died in fighting in WW1.

Re:la peste bubonique and your 74 sick days… I have just one four letter word for you…RATS !

And the Spanish Flu picture is from an American Army hospital in Langres, France, in 1918.

A warm welcome to Miss Maxine Davies, a new addition to Teresa’s “FA Childhood Photos” rogues’ gallery.

Blog: “Shirt suit”File under “Cannot be unseen, no matter how much brain bleach is applied.”

Not the fleas fault, either.

73 days to go…

Wow. I hope for Jimmy’s sake, Superman doesn’t get TOO experimental during his sleepover at the Fortress of Solitude. On the other hand, it could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

I’d look honked off too, if I had to wear a SHIRT SUIT.

(sigh…)72 days to go.

What? Teresa has Bubonic Plague and we have to wait 72 days until FA and Frog Blog return. No! No, no! I refuse to believe it! Until then, I shall wear a shirt suit everyday unless someone other than Benton T. (Troll) Harvey can assure me that this is just a silly rumour.

No! No plague! Say it ain’t so, mister! —Err, Ms. Teresa!(Or, alternatively, get well!)

Re: A COLD ARKANSAS

Faithful citizens of FA/FB Nation probably are already aware that Mother Thalweg and I live in Arkansas. At least one Minnesota legislator thinks Arkansas, in addition to being less cold than Minnesota, is less culturally and socially sophisticated (apparently, A MASS EXECUTION of native Americans is evidence of an advanced society – who knew?).

In addition, faithful citizens of FA/FB Nation may also recall that Teresa has been described ON THIS VERY SITE as having the “mindset of backwoods redneck trash” (Query: Just how low do you have to sink for someone FROM OKLAHOMA to describe you thusly?)

Now I think what the gentleman from Minnesota was implying was that the barefoot hillbilly backwoods redneck trashy people in Arkansas may enjoy nuptial bliss with persons within the second degree of consanguinity, but that is beneath the good Mass Murdering Morally Superior People of Minnesota.

But wait! There’s more! Today Teresa also posted a picture of A PUDGY BILL CLINTON WITH A SAXOPHONE on FB. And Our Boy Bill hails from what great state? Exactly!

I think the only possible conclusion to be drawn from all this is that water seeks its own level, and Teresa, with her DOCUMENTED mindset of backwoods redneck trash, is therefore drawn to, has a crush on, and eventually wants to marry the most backwoods redneck trashy President of our time, but can’t because they are first cousins.

P.S. Darwin married his first cousin (take THAT Minnesota).

@blog, Buck Rogers Pistol. No. U-235?! Harmless? Or is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-235

Doughnuts and hot cocoa. What could be better?

My Buck Rogers Atomic Pistol was red. It was one of my favorite toys.

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Looks like the Golden Gate.

RE: Blog – The photo depicting the artist’s work table with paint tubes, etc., … I think I deciphered the note … I think it reads … “IN THE HOSPITALITY OF WAR WE LEFT THEM THEIR DEAD AS A GIFT TO REMEMBER US BY.”

Is Teresa taking all 74 sick days right now?-On the Blog, Walking the Dog: Those scenes come from Disney’s animated 101 Dalmatians.

The Golden Gate bridge construction…

But for a truly laid back view of the bridge…

!!! ??? is very Python like.

That final mural in the blog reminded me of yet another (series of 3 rooms) that I never mentioned over at BS on Sunday or Monday. That very pretty little house had everything I wanted for a while. The iron canopy and railings outside front door gave good shelter and Rustoleum had a nice bright blue that I used there. The tiny vestibule with closet and built-in arched alcove was painted that same blue, with a small painting hung in alcove. 2 steps up to floor level of main house and I painted both LR and attached DR in a pale version of the blue and the main wall of living room (w arched wide doorway into DR) I did a seascape with the beach rising from nothing as on Teresa’s mural. With "EbbShore for inspiration I ran back and forth the length of the room doing the seascape and added some detail (similar to my Vickary) and a palm tree near the far corner (accented by a faux palm in a pot near there). Over and around the wide arch I did white gloss faux ironwork accented w gold and there were some distant ships and a small boat at a variety of distances towards the center. I had one little Polaroid w part of mural showing and my 3 sons in PJs w one sticking tongue.

Dining room after arch had a formal garden and fountain with fish shooting water in the air and I replaced the glass shades on chandelier with some that I made with poly beads melted in oven and formed over a metal thermos into cylinders (shades of blue). It all worked perfect with my dining set. Triple window on opposite wall looked out over our driveway and the one next door. Cheap curtains were fiberglass in white with gold scrolls in both rooms. I love lots of light.

Where is the new Froggy? Froggy is late!

@Teresa: Have a look at this article; apparently the man in the middle can’t be Bergoglio.

No Teresa-stuff on FA. Will it be back before Easter? Did I mention that I had one of those Buck Rogers ray-guns; but that mine was a plain steely-grey rather than golden; and that the sparkling thingee in the chamber (atop the receiver) ceased working almost immediately?

: (70 more days without my lame fix?

WIENERONI CASSEROLEAh, the good old days when you had to put the corn syrup in all your food yourself.

AAAggggggggghhhhhhhhh a week without F A !!!!!

I believe the Barbie on the left could use some plastic surgery.

As I recall from high school, Karo syrup is a primary ingredient for a particular recipe for fake blood. And this ad says it “puts a little bit of you into every dish you cook”. I have to say, I’m slightly creeped out.

Butter knife?

It’s affected your eyesight, too, I fear. Hank [not Frank] and Charlie’s….

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Not REALLY! 69 more days?!

Hank and Charlies…

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Froggy went a courtin’ and he did ride – uh huh! Froggy went a courtin’ and he did ride – un huh! Froggy went a courtin’ and he did ride, sword and pistol by his side – uh huh! uh huh! un huh!

More Frogs…please…want more Frogs….soon…..need more frogs…..

Way too orangey.

Hoppy, hoppy, hoppy…

She can bleach my shorts.

Blog: are the “Sam Handwiches” meant to be served on Palm Sunday?.I won’t ask what those two soldiers have been up to.

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Anita can also bleach my shorts, if she wants to…

The female vocalist on Time Stand Still from Rush’s Hold Your Fire album was Aimee Mann, former lead singer of ’Til Tuesday, most well known for Voices Carry. (No relation to Amy Lee of Evanescence, obviously, since we learned at Appomattox that Lee was definitely not the Mann.)

Sad, CAN WE SURVIVE for nine more weeks……………….. ?

Love those old five-tube table radios.

Solitary bees will use any hole of the proper size for them.I saw (someplace) a film where a bundle if drinking straws was put out for bees.The local bees loved it.

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In his desperate addiction to FA, he wondered how much longer he could last. Would there be a last second rescue? Or was he doomed to waste away, FA-less?

True story, yesterday a friend gave me rabbit shaped cookies with raisins for eyes.

Though there is nothing new to applaud, there is still the blog to look at.

Missing you, “Frog” …