Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 24, 2016

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    Sisyphos  over 8 years ago

    Is this another entry in some sort of “worst of” contest?—Because, it qualifies….

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 8 years ago

    The lesson is economics in regard to the Bolshevik Revolution. The new government is represented by the spider, and the Russian economy is its web. The foolish lapdog is totally enraptured by his master’s voice and believing every word, while the few intelligent students having a word to the side realize that communism is not the dark path portrayed. The instructor is knock-kneed and his presentation is all thumbs, his opposition being the main feature of his lesson. The excremental content of the instructor’s mental exposition is also drawing insects, and one is seen above his head.Things were reversed a century ago, with Communism being popular with students but not with faculty. Today, Communism is taught as the only solution by instructors and the few radical fools who do not comply and are not enrapt at their master’s voice are considered dangerous right-wing lunatics.“The vibration of the pendulum was at right angles to my length. I saw that the crescent was designed to cross the region of the heart.”-Edgar Allen Poe – The Pit and the Pendulum

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    Randy B Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Yep, it looks as though the students also have curved upthrust pollices.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 8 years ago

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I like your wine.The vinegar?Not so much.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Oooh… I could use a cleansing.The lime builds up after a bit.Hard water.You know.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 8 years ago

    It worked well enough until the dog required a walk during class and its subsequent actions were taken as an editorial comment, requiring its immediate expulsion and the revocation of its academic scholarship.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Still, in any honest appraisal of the item in question, we must concede the possibility that due to the amount of time having passed and the difference in the gestalt resulting from it, that they may have not been capable of actual communication, and were merely making noise.

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