Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 17, 2023

Yeah… I really don’t care if I finish behind a wooden chair.

Batter in grandslam touches four bases and has three runners ahead of the swinger of snailly silly one. Box seats really see the overlay of the field.

…2nd is the first loser…

…is beaten into our society today…

…never mind that second is by far the best you ever did…

…the discouragement of participating leads to less talent not more…

…because talent alone does not lead to success…

…luck…

…but more importantly…

…passion…

…desire…

…not giving up…

… not being afraid or ashamed of being forth place…

…or a hundredth for that matter…

….love of the game…

..first loser takes that all away…

…because if hard work was the only way…

…we become tools for the man…

…we wear ourselves out at work…

…and get beat up, sore, and wore out…

…(too tired to succeed at home, and at what we love)…

…only when- finally- unable to perform we get thrown out…

…while those that under work…

…get paid the same money…

…and put better use of their energies…

…at home…

…into what they love…

…of course for those that love their job…

…they never work a day…

…another cliche…

…but here’s to forth place…

…and to those not trending…

…because they love what they do…

…and are doing what they love…

…because they are the champions…

My problem was I couldn’t place the place. Is it time to pass over the overpass?

It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing, and a big ol’ wreckin’ ball.

They give them a medal made of tin.

no podium for fourth

Four For Fore 4,,,,IV IIII

No net in forth place…

Who cares?

History is indifferent to fourth place, but not family and loved ones.

“Damm! You got beat by a snail?”

I think taupe goes with Gray / Grey.

And we have another winner…

Looks like a bridge over troubled waters! Must be the Cuyahoga River….‼️

At a snails pace, the Flats are being constructed …again and again! Their timing is so sloooooow they’ve come in 4 th place for construction jobs being completed!

At least Jimmy Buffet can continue looking for his shaker and salt‼️‼️‼️☺️

If the bridge is the finish slime, I guess the snail wins …!

( how many helicopters, l or ll? )

Get a rope! Hung a The Laundry Matt. Get the overload pizza!

may the fourth be with you

Well, if your competitors jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?

The Snail You Say!

Reminds me of the snail from the Doctor Dolittle books.

Yup. I mostly am that (indifferent).

Besides, a sluggish snail racing along the overpass to fourth place is far less intriguing than a photographer suspended from who-knows-what-or-where in the air and focussing on an empty chair similarly suspended! Now, that’s stuff worthy of attention!

T for two and two for T ….

Give him the chair!

Persons appearing in Frog Applause have often been indifferent to the fourth wall, as well, in addition to fourth chair, crossing that bridge at a snail’s pace when you get to it, and being artificially elevated by a system of cables and pulleys.

Slug it out, rope a dope was about Ali pacing himself by resting on the ropes… Later rounds he came way alive on finished w/win… Howard? Cosell a Hero?

Day 2. Indifference waxing….