Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 05, 2015

Actually, those were “scratchings”.

So, the stuff that birds leave is now called “compliments”?

I wonder what the compliment was. “Your eyes are the color of the shiny green beetle that I just ate.”

You look fine, like this glass of wine!

“A compliment, when truly given, stands … accepted or not.” – Henny Penny (from the second season of “As the Chicken Coop Turns”)

“How do I get out of this chicken-compliment outfit?”“You secure that compliment, Hudson!”

I could say “I’m sorry,” but I would not mean it. I’m just bursting with grade-A compliments, and all you want to do is throw, throw, throw1What kind of chickenBLEEP operation is this?

And then she went all “free range” on me.And I said, “Lay eggs or stew. I don’t care.”But I felt bad when she went away.Ask not for whom the dinner bell tolls…

And pretty soon everyone in the coop is brooding.

Shoulda given her corn. Chicks dig corn.

You say compliment, I say complement…

He complimented her for having true grit, but these misunderstandings always crop up.

He should be glad they’re not monkeys.

See? This is why they melted the end of your beak to a dull, rounded nub. You just can’t take a compliment.