Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 25, 2019

  1. Duck1275
    Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    But at least you got to stay home and indoors when you pressed your face against the glass and longed for what you were denied.

    That’s got to be worth something!

     •  Reply
  2. Onion news1186.article
    Randy B Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    #liesparentstell

     •  Reply
  3. Skipper
    3hourtour Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    …Momma told me not to come…

    …she said that ain’t the way to have fun, son…

    …but Momma tried…

    …Momma do you think they’ll break my heart?….

    ….Momma Mia S.O.S…

    …Momma don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys…

    …when I find myself in times of trouble mother Mary comes to me…

    …Mommy, why does everybody have a bomb?…

    … how highs the water. Momma?…

    …grandma got run over by a reindeer…

    …Momma’s in the graveyard, Daddy’s in the pen…

     •  Reply
  4. Oldwolfcookoff
    The Old Wolf  almost 5 years ago

    I can still hear the ice cream truck tunes in my head.

     •  Reply
  5. Screenshot 20220517 145611
    Mad-ge Dish Soap  almost 5 years ago

    I wanted that job…. make children and whoever happy, the middle of the night though?My Uncle Harry, worked at a candy manufactor’s.Like • Reply

     •  Reply
  6. Mel and linda 013
    Melki Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    The ice cream truck that preys on my neighborhood plays a repeating version of Turkey in the Straw, a song that has nothing to do with ice cream, or summer.

     •  Reply
  7. Missing large
    descabro  almost 5 years ago

    A very blue childhood.

     •  Reply
  8. Huckandfish
    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 5 years ago

    And you bought that.

     •  Reply
  9. Colt2
    coltish1  almost 5 years ago

    Well … I guess that COULD be Joan Crawford’s daughter.

     •  Reply
  10. 7831c9a4 3d01 43f0 af20 333f72f4f2c7
    Howard'sMyHero  almost 5 years ago

    You mean it isn’t true …? Mein Gott in himmel …!

     •  Reply
  11. Other7 brush
    Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr   almost 5 years ago

    The last time I heard an ice cream truck it was paying the Scott Joplin rag that was used as the theme for “The Sting”.

    Talk about subtle confessions.

     •  Reply
  12. Me 3 23 2020
    ChukLitl Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Yo’ mamma’s a 8¡τ¢#.

     •  Reply
  13. Td  2
    Rotifer NOT GETTING RUBEN BOLLING’S PIN Thalweg Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    I’m guessing (just guessing, mind you), this could be autobiographical.

     •  Reply
  14. Picture
    Ray*C  almost 5 years ago

    “…and see how beautiful and slender you look now! All those ice creams are gone, but your beauty is here. You should thank me.”

     •  Reply
  15. Duck1275
    Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    The world became a united place, mostly by force. A lot of Intentional Goodness got done. Hydrocarbon energy industries were squashed. The internal combustion engine died. Reduced capacity solar and wind power were implemented. The green CO2-free grid was made real. Thing was, if you didn’t have a lot of money or belong to the government class, then you didn’t have any access to personal transportation, electricity, heat or air conditioning. You just didn’t need it. You didn’t count for anything. You weren’t important. The New World Anthem, which sang of “All Goodness for all people”, meant “None for you”, to most people.

     •  Reply
  16. Thinker
    Sisyphos  almost 5 years ago

    That Mean Mother and warped childhood go far to explaining Frog Applause!

    Here, we can all help by sending yummy ice cream to Sister, care of the Convent of the Sisters of the Perpetual Lame in Froglandia….

     •  Reply
  17. Painpain
    painedsmile  almost 5 years ago

    Turkey in the Straw is what our ice cream man always played.

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From Frog Applause