Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 15, 2015

She means it too. Look at the razor-sharp tips on her shoes.

I only wear them because I’m behind in my laundry and they’re the anti-slip pair I got in the hospital.(And the cat likes the ridges when I pet her with my foot.)

First I’m being asked to relinquish the penetralia of my soul, now my manhood is at stake for wearing ankle socks. I can’t win. If ever I needed a walnetto, it’s now.

You don’t have to take me seriously. Maybe a giggle is what you need.

I wear ankle socks. I am not under any circumstances to be taken seriously.

And while we’re at it, keep your paws off my Peds, little mister.

Oh, yeah, gimme a man in these any time!

Having become aware, one is in no position to take anyone seriously.

It is becoming more and more difficult to find tube socks. It is crew, ankle or invisible. This is a shame because there is nothing quite as enjoyable as wearing fluffy new tube socks when you need to be on the move all day.

I never wear ankle socks. Seriously.Take me!

How do you feel about gradient compression support stockings size XXL?

But they produce much richer tones than transistor socks.

@Meh~tdology a reply to yesterdays post…I’ve known about FAAS since it was started, I have no problem with anyone doing something that’s fun for them. I’ve been around for a long time, but haven’t said very much. I, like so many, sat through the days when Frog Applause and frog Blog were gone, checking everyday to see if Teresa came back and that went on for many months. I am not a newbie by any means, just more of a quiet appreciator of Teresa and the content she put on her blog and in her strip.

In clarification, what I agreed with was the fact there is, for me, no substitution for Frog Blog, I disagreed with the tone of the message, as it sounded like an attack on the FAAS. We have no idea how Teresa herself feels about it and it’s hard to imagine someone taking offense in what is in essence a homage to her and her work. It may not be for me, but if others love it, then it really is all good, go have fun with it, after all that’s what this is all about.

That’s OK! I don’t take me seriously either!

There’s an aptly named rapid in the Grand Canyon, a few miles upstream from Phantom Ranch, named Sockdolager. Class 7 as I recall.

It doesn’t care about sock style. It hates all boaters.

P.S. FA is current again. Whence returneth M.A.P.?

I’ve never worn ankle socks, but I’m also never serious. Seriously!!! Never!!!

Black knee socks … that’s the ticket! Black knee socks with suspenders! And spats! Black knee socks with suspenders and black shoes with white spats!!!

I get up every morning and read Frog Applause first thing … to get fashion advice … I need help and only Frog Applause can be trusted to give truly serious guidelines !!!

Thank you for posting the YouTube video of Maude.

I posted this the other day in the editorial cartoon section:-—-Newscasters, bloggers, cartoonists think nothing of insulting older women by depicting them as double-chinned and wrinkled. If a woman has cosmetic surgery to avoid the humiliation, they taunt her about that as well. Men are not judged in the same way, and often the men doing the judging are fat and bald with drooping jaws.-What does female beauty have to do with seeking a political office? What a vapid, shallow and empty society we have truly become.-——Perhaps we shouldn’t judge men who wear ankle socks either.

It’s not the ankle socks that I can’t take seriously……it was the thigh high boots with the stiletto heels that really threw me.

“Ankle” socks is kinda subjective…

Even though the scansion is off a bit, I’m now hearing the Royal Teens singing “Who Wears Ankle Socks?”I’m wearing ankle socks right now. That’s because I just came back from running club and I’m wearing CEP compression calf sleeves. Would any other socks look less dorky with those? Help me Frog Applauders.

Happy Feast of St. Klaatu Day to you, too.

I wonder how she feels about men who wear no socks with shoes.

To JKiss, re yesterdays post:It’s not hard to get a turtle to trumpet really, you just need to know what to feed it. A turtle loves fruit, and beans are the magical fruit after all.

Its not the sox. Its whats IN the sox…

But, Teresa, I’d look even more dorky—dorkier?—if I run with my knee-high tube socks!