Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 25, 2013

You wish.

It’s that testy testosterone, always testing my testis !

Heavy hang the huevos.

Only size small was available but it has done in a pinch.

Should probably get that looked at.

I don’t believe anything I don’t see for myself.

Should have got a larger size. Or packed it more carefully. Whatever. Who but you really cares?

Walter the pole vaulter.

AND ALL OVER THE FIELD….

I don’t know who that is trying to get into David’s pants, but it looks like his identical twin.

Blog – Cowboys reading “Ranch Romances”?? The mind bugles. (Unless there’s a spelling error and it’s really Raunchy)I believe one of the papers in the rack is the Lying Weekly.

“Hey, where did I put the shot?”.“Can we discuss this later?”

Looks like your belt s also running over.

My mother collected bees for most of her life. She would have loved that thimble.

Meet my best friend Dick Long.

TURKU, FINLANDMy wife’s best friend in grade school has lived in Turku. Moved back to Finland when her father finished his work at Purdue. For the ensuing (guestimated)50 years, they’ve written each other.

The cup is a hard protective piece. Runnething over would be most uncomfortable.

BEE THIMBLEshould have the words reversed so is sounds more like ‘bumble bee’.

What’s he’s doing? The Curly Shuffle?

Yah. so does my AAA 32 bra!It’s all relevant Buddy!

Blog: “… it was tense.” They were followed by indicative, conditional, and subjunctive, who were moody.Lastly, a noun walked in and asked for a beer. He was declined.

I loved Grandpa Hefner’s JackRabbit Club… even took the effort to find the original photo they photoshopped to make it… http://tinyurl.com/a8rtoho

Ay-yi-yi. Do they still make those like that?

Re: Cowboys readingLariat magazine

Ranch Romances

Texas Rangers

“No More Room.” The carrier is the USS Thetis Bay (CVE 90)):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thetis_Bay_(CVE-90)

She’s being used as an aircraft ferry, either taking new planes to front-line units or returning worn-out planes to rear areas. The large planes on her deck are PBY-5A Catalina seaplanes. The smaller aircraft with folded wings are most likely F6F Hellcats.

CVEs were small, slow carriers with a variety of duties, and rarely saw the sort of front-line action that large carriers endured. Normally they escorted convoys, carrying planes for anti-submarine warfare. One remarkable exception was the Battle of Samar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Samar

Edwn Hoyt’s “The Men of the Gambier Bay” has a detailed account of life aboard one of the ships at Samar.

CVE stood for C (cruiser-hull) V (vertical attack) E (escort). (The first carriers were built using surplus cruiser hulls; vertical attack meant aerial attack). They were relatively inexpensiee and easy to build. CVEs had a variety of nicknames, including jeep cariers and “Kaiser coffins” (due to their small size, slow speed and flimsy construction; Kaiser was the manufacturer). A common joke was that CVE really stood for Combustible, Vulnerable, Expendable.

The Electric Trolley Car is one of the Red Cars of thePacific Electric Railroad:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric_Railway

This system served the Los Angeles basin from around 1900 to 1960. It was an efficient system, with one car providing a service equivalent to forty automobiles. It went into decline for a variety of reasons; the cars were relatively slow and ran on a fixed, non-24/7 schedule; expenses kept rising; General Motors pushed to have trolley systems removed (get rid of one trolley car and you created a demand for forty autos). The GM role is debatable, with some of the debate documented here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

There was enough evidence for GM and other parties to lose the 1951 US v. National City Lines decision, although the total penalty amounted to $5,000. Amon other things, it’s an interesting study in consiracy theories.

A good problem to have.

Well what did you think would happen when you stuffed that sock down there?

Pipe: Way deep in the uncanny valley.

Aw. nuts. (somebody had to say it.)

TMI.

Regarding Angilas, he may be standing on his hind legs in that photo, but he represented Toho’s first effort to depict a monster that was a quadruped.

Angilas first appeared in the 1955 film, “Godzilla’s Counter-Attack,” which was also known as “Godzilla Raids Again,” and was released in the US, heavily edited, as “Gigantis, the Fire Monster.”

The reason for the name change from Godzilla to Gigantis was that at that early point in time, the US distributor wasn’t sure whether the Godzilla name would ever amount to anything, so they didn’t want to risk associating the new film with it.

Re: Bill Thompson and the USS Thetis Bay: The Thetis Bay became the US Navy’s first helicopter carrier (designated CVHA-1). She was moored in the since closed Long Beach naval Shipyard when I reported aboard my first ship in June of 1958. More useless and lame info for the Blog.

The red trolley cars and the Pacific Electric Railroad featured prominently in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Teresa – “your oversized spork does not impress me.” – David

And the difference between Spam, Spork, and Treet is? (Besides the fineness of the grind)? I didn’t go crazy over Spam as a kid- okay once in a while- but lately I’ve developed a taste for a competitor’s product at over a buck a can cheaper- Hannaford, at Bottom Dollar and Food Lion. Tasty, and easy on the choppers. Haven’t hit a chunk of bone in a coon’s age.

Sunday, 27 I 13, FA:Well, okay; you had just better not poison me in that case, you bitter cartoonist!

Teresa, if we pump you for information will that lead to the location of the stomach pump?