Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 13, 2012

Is it sticky?

Mine’s genetically dry, and falls out at the most inopportune times. Always embarrassing me, it is.

Disgustamundo!

Just standing around, cerumenating…

You’re using it as a hair gel, aren’t you.

Blog: goose.Serves the kid right for peeing through the fence.

Mine must have bees in it because there’s this constant buzzing in my ears.

None of your beeswax!

Blog (Utah baby names).I notice one of the girls names is “Apathy” Does this indicate that neither parent could be bothered to use contaception?

Re: racist watercolor on the blog. I couldn’t find anything on-line, but you might contact this museum:

http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/index.htm

There’s a guided tour of the Jim Crow Museum here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHvQngdR7o

The picture looks like it might be the front of a postcard. If it seems too risque for the US Post Office, there’s a small collection of similar cards here:

http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/african/3-coon/2-pickaninny/index.html

Mine gets wet when you talk that way.

I used to wax my ears, until one day, the buffer pad on the polisher came loose…..

Nope, can’t say that it is.

Looks like The Man From UnCool – . . . . .☻

A study by the Topeka University Reasearch Department will verify this in 2014.

Hey, Slick, you a lawyer or something? —Get a warrant if want to sample MY earwax!

Ah, a classic genetic case study; dry earwax is linked to a either single base substitution of adenine for quanine at position 538 of exon 4 (the very first discovered single nucleotide polymorphism which was known to have a visible phenotypic effect), or a 27-base deletion in exon 29, of the ATP-binding cassette C11 (ABCC11) gene. It hampers a putative antibacterial action of wet earwax, but intriguingly this mutation is also linked to considerably reduced body odor.

Was mentioned in a paper I was reading at the weekend.

Thrilling stuff.

Mine is smooth and creamy, thank you very much.But it’s all due to willpower, and nothing to do with genetics! I tell you, earwax is all in the mind.

Re: “… bitter disgruntled cartoonist.”

You can bet your sweet ass that you’ll see that again (it’s doesn’t quite rise to the category of “backwoods redneck trash,” but it’s a keeper nevertheless).

Wow! Al Jolson makes an appearance in Frog Applause!

Did you know that earwax is part of your immune system?

I wonder if that animal-killing kid had anything to do with that overturned pig truck. It’s an unsettling juxtaposition, like Dennis the Menace telling his mom he sees her petrified skull.

i wonder who his tailor is.

Difficult to explain, but I find the Barbie heads in jars profoundly creepy!!!

I can’t imagine how any woman could resist that pickup line. It’s even better than “What’s your sign?”

do three girls, a six pack make?

The wet earwax guy looks a bit like Harry Houdini.

Harry Houdini?hm. ….darn! his face escapes me

It’s earwax. No. It’s dessert topping. Wait, it’s both!

No one seems to want to “candle” his ears.

Linguist almost preempted my comment…Dang, if it’s wet, the earwax candles won’t light. Or maybe they will and there’ll be a cool sputtering effect.

AWARD WINNER WITH WINNING POSTER’Cause it should be “abuser” to fix the meter, right? Well, not just the meter needed fixing ’cause some people need to use drugs to stay alive or functional.

blog "Altered Comic’ : He ran over a seal with his bike?

It has nothing to do with his girlfriend’s tongue.

Sorry, it’s dedicated to non-exclusive relationships.

The Dorothy Dandridge photo is wonderful. For reasons that I can only guess at, she has held my interest for many years.

Guess one might say that I don’t understand some of the forces that drive my actions and/or interest.

Is it wrong to love your testing helmet if it allows you to crush your spine and live to tell about it?

What are the ghostly images in the Dorothy Dandridge photo, in front of the out of focus background and behind the beguiling foreground?