Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for October 04, 2012

X-Ray Vision…

RE: PIPE SMOKING ON THE BEACHNot sure what the girls were smoking but I know Emma really wanted to knock them dead but Simone knew there was " No Exit".

Phaser eyes or she works for the TSA… Good thing he’s got no naughty bits to get embarrassed over.

Don’t cross the beams!

love is…

She missed! Eye-laser castration is so “in” for your need-to-be-eunuchs these days! Ain’t technology grand?

LOOK MOM, ‘NO BALLS’.

Noting to see there.

She must be the vasectomist. She missed, alright.

This is all very dirty.

Is she trying to warm up his…interest with her laser-vision? His sexual organs may be internal, like those of a reptile or bird. Or “I trowe he were a gelding or a mare”.

While your at it, try to locate my nipples too.

“My eyes are up here!”

Re: Pipe Smoking on the Beach.

Rosa Luxembourg was assassinated in 1919, so that can’t be her in a circa-1930s photo. The background looks like the White Cliffs of Dover, placing this photo in England. The fashions definitely do not date from her lifetime. Emma Goldman was born around 1870, so she would have been at least sixty in a picture from the Thirties; she was also stout and wore glasses. So this photo has been badly misidentified somewhere along the line.

Still nuthin’ there.

Re: Blog….re:Wildroot…..Which one is Charlie?;

The dancing dog’s name is Tige, pronounced with a hard ‘G,’ or, for you linguists out there, with a full glottal stop. Tige was part of the advertising tandem – with Buster being the full partner – for Buster Brown shoes. I have heard the jingle, which dates from the early years of the 20th century, but can’t bring it to mind at the moment.

Love is .. no it isn’t.

’It’s all in the mind!‘’Well it certainly isn’t down there.’

Love is never having your equipment measured with a critical eye.

Re: Pipe Smokers

The oldest posting I can find for that photograph is here:

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/57114/3494176

It’s dated November 2008, and it doesn’t identify the women. There are a large number of sites which have the photo labeled as Luxembourg, de Beauvoir and Goldman, so I’m guessing that someone added the names as a prank. (As search terms go, those names are going to be more common than “women smoking pipes,” so it probably spread through searches for major historical figures.)

Meanwhile, last week I figured out how to access Flickr’s photostreams. They have at least 40,000 Great War pictures on file. My brain glazed over after the first thousand, but I did find quite a few German pictures similar to the Russian soldier’s glamour shot. Some of these pictures have soldiers relaxing in the field. Others are posed group pictures, always with two reclining soldiers positioned to either frame a placard or draw attention to the senior officer/noncom present:

http://tinyurl.com/9d6krn3

So that glamour pose isn’t as rare as I’d thought.

Your legs are hot

You guys are making me feel old. Well, I guess I am, at that – I remember the Buster Brown jingle well, and loved watching Andy Devine, the Little Rascals, and all of those old black and white shows in the 50’s. I loved Buster Brown as a comic as well – he was always getting into such trouble, and had such wonderful resolutions at the end, and never seemed to remember any of them. Thanks for the walk down memory lane, Teresa. Re: “naughty bits” – there’s no worry about embarrassing anyone at this forum, but it is a public place after all, where random kids might happen by, so I thought a certain measure of decorum would be in order. Perhaps I should have said “fiddly bits.”

My, I’m certainly glad you persevered with your blog. It’s better than graduate school!

There appears to be nothing attached to the “Long Live the Kings” post…