Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 13, 2022

Well, get a non-conducting ear trumpet and don’t raise it over your head, so that if you’re struck by lightning, your precious ear trumpet will be protected by your less-precious noggin.

If so egads, will his Rolex watch, take a lickin and keep on tickin?

Sounds like a reasonable thing to fear, if you are standing under a lone tree during an electrical storm, or walking alone in a treeless area during one, or rowing a boat across a lake, with one hand.

It would be a sin, not to fear…

Eeeeh ?? What’d ya say? I can’t hear you, I have a trumpet in my ear…..

Well, it’s better than a banana….

I’m more afraid of exploding toilets

Normally I’d be all over this but I think today is going to more of a “Run Spot run” day.

Haiku All I have to say/ If that is your phobia,/ stick it in your ear

…guest word mongers are cool…

…I guess…

…but the real question is does someone with Mz. Teresa Burritt’s word addiction play Wordle?…

… I don’t…

…but hearing the perfect sentence structured …

….like lightning to your ears…

…the big explosion…

…frazzled hair…

…charcoal covering your face…

…is comedy gold…

…Texas Tea…

…I wonder if Craig Conley ever heard of the ‘One Word’ web sight?…

…I crashed it once…

…writing naughty code in free verse not thinking first…

…as a false terl…

…[or did I just read the scripture that fell the walls of one word Jericho & claim it as my own?]…

…Frog Applause, the wonder years…

..now, with no Fred Savage…

Friday 13 and lights out for sure.

Feh! Who cares about those when the :*mustachioed”: trumpet is at risk?!

Smell the impatient trumpets starting to bloom.

Jazzi trumpets blowing…

Coronets get no respect, so go fly a kite …!

A phobia engendered from a 19th century cathouse phrase.

Craig Conley? That’s the person who wrote something under Sister Teresa’s ABOUT at the top of today’s comic.

Looks more like an ear sax to me but who am I to quibble about what others stick in their ear?

24 comments without a reference to Lou Christie, where am I, Miss Peach?

Early ear horns were crafted from tin.. hence the word tinnitus.

Yes, I know the feeling. I’m often waving around metal objects in a lightening storm as well. That’s how we roll at the facial hair club for men.

Watch Out, that guy is plotting out a storm…

Lightning strikes up the band and the hair band too.

So get a conch shell, and you can transfer over to thalassophobia—fear of the ocean.

Keep it low at all times when out of doors or otherwise exposed to the sky. When possible use a true earth ground.

Not a phobia I need worry about for my part. But I did take on continuation of the life’s work of a person of the first half of the 20th century who was notoriously deaf (as a side effect of malaria) and made use of a huge ear trumpet….

“Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?You better run, you better take cover. "

Ay, what’s that you say? Streptococcus astroturf? SPEAK UP HOSS, I CAN BARELY HEAR YOU!

Hold on just a minute…

There, now that my ear trumpet is in place, would you kindly repeat what you just said?

…26 letters…

…88 keys…

…and yet they still write terrible songs…

…and if I hear Yesterday or Hallelujah…

…one more time…

…by one more person…

…I’m gonna puke…

…says the guy that just writes the same thing everyday…

… Chekhov’s gun…

…this is why we need Frog Applause…

…meanwhile…

…back at the ranch…

…[ https://youtu.be/BW360cSVgeQ ] …

Ranidaphobia: Fear of frogs

Claudusophobia: Fear of lame

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: Fear of long words