Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 18, 2018

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offer an olive branch

Some cultures have no respect for the elderly. The rich have no respect for the poor. This memory must have had a profound impact on Pope Francis.

It just goes to show that FA is unpredictable. Which of Rotifer’s classifications fits this particular FA? No spork in this one.

“C… c… c… coming, Mother!” “He’s so good with the servants, Fred.”

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Firesign Theater

This makes me sad and MAD!! I have a grandmother around that age. I’d like to slap her back like Sidney Poiter did that orchid-growing, rich, bigot in THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. ssss-llllll-aaaaa-pppp.

He sort of looks like Eddie Munster with that widow’s peak hairline.

Imagine how far he could have gone if he’d come from the slums of Buenos Aires and seen the sort of live people live there.

Elder abuse is real.

There is a history behind this one.

Not so shocking, as profoundly sad, that the abuse of the elderly and the poor, still continues to this day.

Nothing has changed since Pope Francis’ youth.

The rich still take advantage of the poor, and mistreat their elders.

I was going to speculate about what a rough neighborhood Pope Francis grew up in, but of course around his friend’s house it is was just the opposite. But just as obviously, it was an extremely rough neighborhood for the elderly maid.

if I turn 81, and a woman slaps me, it will have been a good day.

Fake news utilizing “snake-tactics”??

Isn’t it interesting that witnessing some random event will change the direction of a person’s life? I don’t know if that one incident led him eventually into the priesthood and the papacy, but clearly it made a lasting impact…far longer than the bruise on the poor woman’s face.

Such sad events were not, are not, all that uncommon. It’s hard to say why it would have affected young Papa Francesco so profoundly. Did he ever visit that friend’s house again?

And yet, my Question of the Day is, did he ever look so creepy as Sister’s vampirish rendering?!