Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for December 10, 2012

Panel #3 translation…Es naughtyDoes naughty

This sentence no verb.

That’s spelled NO T, not N OT!Are you trying to corrupt the innocent young mind of that confused and vulnerable little girl (no, NO T Teresa)?

Daniel Tosh is a real piece of garbage, but those Sweet Brown fire safety PSAs were pretty cool.

Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Some do and some don’t.

The Blog: What are Alice and her creepy rabbit friend up to?

You are hereby sentenced to a life of reading the comics. There shall be no pardon or relief. And many a bad punchline. So stop smiling, little girl! And stop making faces at me, I don’t like that.

Re Blog: Don’t buy the booby – it’s a trap.

What’s all this about female deer?

DUCKS ON ICESomehow, my mind jumped rapidly from there to this wonderful Steve Goodman song. Maybe because ducks on ice are anything but smooth. And I couldn’t easily find a listenable version.Old Smoothies :My grandfather used to take usDown to the ice skatin’ show,At the hockey rink at the stadium,When the Blackhawks were on the road.We’d cheer for the clowns in their costumes,And the beautiful figure ballet,Of the former Olympic championsAs they’d spin on the frozen spray.But there was one moment in that whole spectacular show,When the band would strike up a quiet waltz,And they turned all the lights down low.Old smoothies,Two old people on skates.Sequined septuagenarians Doing their figure eights.How they’d glide ‘round the arena,So serene and sublime.They had been the old smoothies for a long, long time. Where did they get the stamina?How did they stay in shape?I bet that took the lion’s shareOf linament, pride and tape.See my Grandpa would smile as the smoothiesWould glide and pirouette,And then he would reach for my Grandma’s hand,And Grandma’s eyes got wet.The spotlight stayed on the smoothies,While they circled the ice and bowedBefore fifteen thousand hockey fans,Not a dry eye in the crowd.If this looks different to anyone who saw it in the first few minutes after I posted, it’s because I decided it needed to be reformatted after a paste from the lyrics site didn’t look very nice.

Old New England Yankee saying: If ducks walk on water in November,they"ll swim in January.

Teresa Dear, would you please add my blog to your list:rudyschronicles.blogspot.com.Thank you.

To anybody who is confused about my condemnation of Daniel Tosh, Google “Daniel Tosh rape joke,” or read the following opinion piece and you’ll understand my feelings on the matter.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/11/why-daniel-tosh-s-rape-joke-at-the-laugh-factory-wasn-t-funny.html

th is com ic strip real ly doe snot ev er get bor ing! I <3 Ter esa & Vl ad!