Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 14, 2011

Mmm-mmm, claw meat!

How rude!

OK, I won’t do that anymore.

Regarding that controversial J. Crew ad, the definitive conversation about it can be found on the Landover Baptist Church’s Web site:

http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=63066

Up pericope: “Let anyone among you who is without nephropathy be the first to throw a kidney stone at her.”

From the book of the John, 8:7

I’ll pass on the kidney stones

Those have to be the biggest kidney stones I ever saw. I wouldn’t throw one of mine, out of embarrassment at their tiny size.

And how did that guy get in that 1948 pic? (Although my face would probably look something like that, too.)

The Emerson Radio 1958: Note the two triangles, at 640 and 1240 on the dial. Until the sixties, all radios had those marked. They were Civil Defense channels. After they destroyed our civilization and we destroyed theirs, you could tune in one of those channels and learn how to rebuild society. It would have been so much fun!!

Great blog posts today. I learn so much from Frog Blog…

Yeah, I remember the Conelrad stations. Always felt bad that nothing ever came over them but the occasional test.

they’ll stone you when you’re trying on your bra they’ll stone you when you’re showing off your claw

I would not feel so all alone EVerybody must get stoned!

marg, I’ll bring the melted butter.

I used to have that exact same Emerson Transistor Radio. At the time, I loved the color.

oh, of claws, i see what you’re doing there.

Lobster Boy.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/424029.Lobster_Boy

The Old Wolf, did you ever see “Panic In Year Zero,” a 1962 movie with Ray Milland? Conelrad played a big part in it. It featured in Pat Frank’s 1959 novel “Alas, Babylon!” as well. Ah, those pleasant childhood memories of impending annihilation …

Insect stings: Can’t believe the fire ant sting is so low on the scale. I’ve felt them many times, and they are excruciating. Can’t imagine what a bullet ant sting would be like. The real problem with fire ant stings is that you never get just one. I swear they climb up your shoe silently, like Navy Seals, and then when their built-in chronometers all hit 0700, they start biting all at once. And while you’re swatting them off, another squad is climbing up the other shoe. And they’re so small, they easily get into your shoes. So when you sit down to take your shoes off…sorry. I can’t go on..

“Alas, Babylon!” the future ain’t what it used to be, but “we’re all goona die!” anyway.

As the baby of the family, getting my nails painted was a fun bonding experience with my big sisters. It made my girlfriend wish she had big sisters. Her older siblings tought her to skate like a hokey player. What’s gender confusion?

People with glass kidneys, shouldn’t claw their stones.

Well, I went over to Landover Baptist Church.. I’m going to bleach my brain now…

JackButler, you do understand, I hope, that Landover Baptist is a fake site, and that nobody posting hateful religious messages there actually believes what they’re saying?

BillThompson, I saw “Panic in Year Zero” for the first time fairly recently. I found it somewhat depressing and disturbing, but it certainly is worth a look for anybody who’s interested in it from a cultural, historical, or film appreciation perspective.

Moreover, I do have fond memories of various apocalyptic sci-fi movies, books, and Twilight Zone episodes that referenced Conelrad back in the day.

Flight Suit, there’s a web site dedicated to nuclear nostalgia:

http://www.conelrad.com/index.php