Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for June 13, 2012

It’s sheer heck to stand around holding your food for lack of a table, or even a tray.

Yum. Butterfly seasoning. No breakfast is complete without it.

Ahh, ham and eggs (five of them)! Plus a butterfly, a mason jar, a preachy popinjay, and a miscellany of boardgame letter-pieces! The meaning is clear; indeed, it’s alimentary, Watson!

Fontana Dam and Reservoir, located on the Little Tennessee River and operated by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

Those “How To Survive” books are blatantly sexist. Why do they assume boys are likely to experience one disaster after another, while only girls can handle such advanced skills as mind-reading, friendly persuasion and cat-training? And why is it that the only common skill on both lists is “How To Survive A Zombie Attack”? How hard is it to escape one of the living dead?

Re blog: is that woman trying to disembowel that mannequin?

Keep your emotions in check.Don’t over think.

Is that Raymond Burrd?

I admire your lack of focus.

Proves what happens when you only workout the upper body.

I’ve been under the table a time or two when my emotions weren’t in check.

Re Blog: Lizzie Bordan took an ax,And gave her Father forty wacks.When the evil deed was done,She gave her Mother forty-one.

…my emotions are killing me right now…

the picture of Donna crying struck me. I got kinda misty…

re blog, women at work:something about the quality of the photo and the “wristlet” that the woman sharpening the axe is wearing makes me think this might be a re-enactment. i’m curious as to the source.

I feel very fortunate to have farm fresh eggs each morning. This also brings back memories of passing through Mesquite, Nevada and seeing a casino sign advertising ham and eggs for $1.75. I stopped amd ordered them and was surprised when the order came on two big plates. One held the eggs and hash browns. The other held this huge slice of country ham and toast. Washing it down with a beer, I was in my own little corner of heaven.

The video of how music can bring such animation and pleasure was beautiful to witness. I am going to send it to my wife. She is a nurse and goes into adult family homes each daynto work with seniors.

My wife told me that she has a patientt that will be 101 this summer. She is blind and has dementia. They place headphones on and she sings all day long as she listens to the music.

@BillThompsonthanks for the info. btw wristlets were a popular fad with women in the early 1900’s, men still clung to their pocket watches till ww1 when they found them too cumbersome for military use.i stand corrected and teresa i apologize for questioning your veracity (looks over shoulder for vlad).

@Teresa.Your blog is a masterpiece!Click here!

Re: Surviving a Zombie AttackReminds me of the CDC’s Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse

Say what!?!?!?!?

Nights that Frog Applause is late, Pibgorn tends to be as well … is someone trying to tell us something? (If so, what?)

The most I could find about the US Student Nurse Reserve was a letter:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/wwi/bickettnurse/bickett.html

In 1917 the US Army had about four hundred nurses; a year later they had 12,000 nurses in uniform. The only way to recruit all the nurses the military needed was to take professionals. It would have been impossible to leave civilian hospitals understaffed, so the Student Nurse Reserve was established to recruit students who would take their place.

The letter’s writer, Stella Barbee, didn’t exagerrate when she said professional nurses served at the front. None of them were involved in front-line combat, but several American nurses were wounded during German bombing raids.

Thanks for adding that poster to the blog, Teresa. Yesterday I’d never heard about the Student Nurse Reserve.

IKE’S STORYSame tooth as Alfred E Newman of course.

LAURA BULLIONI thought, gee, she even looks a bit like Katherine Ross. So I gave her Katherine’s hair in a quick and dirty Photoshop.

When I read the comments on Orville the Helicopter Cat’s video, someone suggested that Bart Jansen be helicopterized as just punishment. I thought this to be a great idea and thus I changed my last will and testament:

“My final wish is that I not be buried or burned. Take my corpse to the taxidermist and mount me up as a helicopter. Take me out and fly me every Halloween, or more often if you think it would be funny or scary.”

yet another day without FA!

where are you?

the wife of a friend of mine told me her vibrators name was “B.O.B.”. battery operated boyfriend.

Re: John Meintz. He wasn’t the only victim of anti-German sentiment during WW I. There was Robert Prager, a German-born coal miner who was lynched in 1918. The mob’s objections to him were that he was German, they didn’t think he was loyal enough, and they thought he was a Socialist (all of which ran together in the “thinking” of the times; the war gave big business elements the perfect excuse to clamp down on socialists and union organizers).

Anti-German sentiment reached insane levels during the war. Some dachshunds were killed for the crime of having a German breed name. Survivors were renamed “Liberty pups.” German shepherds, better-able to defend themselves, were renamed Alsatians. Sauerkraut became “Liberty cabbage” and German measles became “Liberty measles.” It was quite a silly time. Pass the Freedom fries, please.