Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 18, 2015

So much grist…

Random is random.All the rest is the Latest LAME

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HAPPY!

Diarrhea of the brain? Too many cool drugs? Day-dreaming?Am I confused?

Ya ya roly, ya ya poly, ya ya roly poly.

Now I suppose I will be getting spam emails telling me how to grow six more nipples in only three weeks by purchasing a secret drug and nutrient formula from a reliable Canadian pharmacy.Guaranteed Results!!!!

Nice gams, toots!

STOP SHOUTING!!!

I LOVE this! I found a small trash can (oddly enough, it was in someone’s trash) that was decoupaged with slogans and headlines like this – though it doesn’t have the one about indigestion and flatulence.It’s one of my better “found” acquisitions.

I found cafuné on this list of words not easily translated. Leave it to Teresa to make us look up something. What is that “ballooning of the rectum” next to BUY A BAG all about? Just curious…

MamihlapinatapeiFrom Yagan, the indigenous language of the Tierra del Fuego region of South America. This word has been translated in several ways in English, always implying a wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start.

JayusFrom Indonesian, meaning a joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh.

ProzvonitIn both Czech and Slovak language, this word means to call a mobile phone only to have it ring once so that the other person would call back, allowing the caller not to spend money on minutes.

KyoikumamaIn Japanese, this word refers to a mother who relentlessly pushes her children toward academic achievement.

TartleA Scottish verb meaning to hesitate while introducing someone due to having forgotten his/her name.

IktsuarpokFrom the Inuit, meaning to go outside to check if anyone is coming.

CafunéFrom Brazilian Portuguese, meaning to tenderly run one’s fingers through someone’s hair.

TorschlusspanikFrom German, this word literally means “gate-closing panic” and is used to describe the fear of diminishing opportunities as one ages. This word is most frequently applied to women who race the “biological clock” to wed and bear children.

TingoFrom the Pascuense language of Easter Island, it is the act of taking objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them.

IlungaFrom the Tshiluba language spoken in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, this word has been chosen by numerous translators as the world’s most untranslatable word. Ilunga indicates a person who is ready to forgive any abuse the first time it occurs, to tolerate it the second time, but to neither forgive nor tolerate a third offense.

Whatever you think something to be, it is guaranteed to be something entirely other.If one has expectations in life, then one will certainly suffer disappointments in life.If your book case looked like this, you would be home by now.

My cable was out. I could not call to complain because my phone is VOIP on my cable service.THAT is how you handle complaints.

FLUFFIER smell?Bunnies got that!

GLAD FEET?I prefer glad hands.

I cafunéed last weekend (on request) and didn’t even know I was cafuning.

The redeeming value is in that when the send ankle signal is received, there is already enough fuming done by the pyre that one becomes unconscious for lack of oxygen and the flames of the witch-burning are never actually felt at all.I take my victories where I can get them.

One should never have to pay for spoilers, they should always be free. Whatever you do Don’t hit the Panic button.