Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 06, 2022

You won’t lose your place now if you’ve bean reading fancy characters for the symbol-minded.

Illuminati!

Ooooh!! I adore ampersands!! I even have one for hanging at home!!

Not that I’m using the loops it makes as things to hold it up on nails!! /gasp!/ That would be tragic!!

Some of these are very elaborate. I dislike ampersands. I don’t know why. I NEVER use them in writing. NEVER.

I have an inexplicable craving for a nice Amarone.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3330025/hilarious-silence-lambs-joke-missed/

Beats lions, tigers and bears.

…the new cover for the latest Jethro Tull album…

…starring either Laurie Anderson or Ian Anderson…

…I forget which…

…& a 1 & a 2 & a three…

…the questions is…

..is it an attached bookmark or not?…

… is a book that contains a lot of books still called a book?…

…if not…

…what do you call a book that contains numerous books?…

…

…I don’t know what it says…

…I just know that I can’t read it…

…open the pod bay door, HAL…

…sorry, Dave’s not here…

…I am Dave. Open the gosh durn door…

One correction. That is not a bookmark. That is book scat. Call for the dung beetles!

Green beans make terrible bookmarks, no matter how flat you mash them.

And?

I like those old-style ampersands. It’s actually “Et” – latin for “and.” I’m not sure how or why it changed into the modern one. The word itself is “and per se ‘and’.”

Oooh! I LOVE Ampersands! Reminds me of the Calligrapy I used to do…squiggles, curves and loops! It takes practice and I always used a bookmark to keep my place in the pages of learning….one must do a lot of connecting and inclusions with Ampersands and Calligaphy ! There’s no straight lines, like a green bean standing on end….straight and narrow…..

My friend and I are like two peas in a pod… we both like to write and draw and express our talent on paper…..

Decorative ligatures, asparagus, and Colonel Mustard. Your move.

OMG! I confess it’s been a few days since I visited the Blog, but to hear from long lost friend and faithful commenter Margueritem is a very special treat. If you’re scanning FA these days, Marg, here’s a shoutout! I miss you.

Oooh!! coltish1 mentioned the Blog, which reminded me of a cool series of photos there right now, showing plant pots — no, not the other way round!! — saying things like ’Say Aloe to My Little Friend’!!

Brings to lame minds the “ligature resistant” handrails that offer innovative, durable and stylish options for behavioral health facilities …!

Where is this @?

♫ These are ♪ a few of ♩ my favorite things … ♬

I would like this one in a large format on my wall.

Aaa, ooo

Green Beanies grow from the sands

The Green Beanies love ampersands

They’re outrageous

They’re green and they rage

Green Beanie, I’m saving your page

Ooo, oww

Go, go

The Green Beanie : Froggy Bowie : A Froggin’ Sane

Oh, this is lovely, Teresa. Thank you! <3

Ampersands are our friends! I could never make a real ampersand, though. I would have to be content with a squiggly E and a line through it top to bottom. But my keyboard gives me &, & I’m happy with it.

—In which Sister takes a deep dive into Latin palaeography. Ampersand is a ligature of “et,” the Latin word for “and.” Ligatures are scribal shortcuts for frequently used words or phrases.

Green beans are tasty, and make a nice, colorful, green background for the et-ligatures. Green beans are (part of) what I “et” yesterday.

Bookmarks are mostly irrelevant to this discussion, but a token one serves as an index to the bookish nature of this discussion.

For better or for worse, tomes on Latin palaeography are among the dustiest and least-circulated in the venerable Old Wing of the Froglandia Bathmat Factory Library (also referred to as the Froglandia National Library colloquially)….

If beans could spell…

The Led Zeppelin

ZPL. Marching To Pretorea…

zipply speed Roma