Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 30, 2016

Naphthalene toothpaste,mmm minty !

Perfect movie snack: Whoppers™ moth balls!

I love the smell of mothballs in the morning.Smells like old people.

I always liked the dental cleanliness mouth worms on Farscape. They called them dentics. You just pop one in your mouth and they go to work eating any food particles and cleaning up bacteria and dead gum material. They also have a minty taste to their excretions.They tasted terrible, though. Or so the story goes, which is why it was safe for them to crawl around people’s mouths.At one time, some people believed that tooth cavities might be caused by worms that ate the teeth, though nobody had ever seen one.

You wouldn’t want to see the dentist, otherwise you would have to put up with the dentist saying tooth pics rather than x-rays..

I love the bonus pair of Oetiker 14100082 Standard Jaw Pincers (formerly 1098), 4.7 out of 5 stars. A handy tool to remove those stubborn eggs hunkered down in the back of the mouth.

I always “play safe” with the moths and their progeny. (Euphemism.)I’m a real killer when it comes to…; well, let’s just say I’m a real killer.Do what Teresa tells you, little girl! Enjoy!

I admire this young moth brusher for her fastidious. Young people today tend to ignore moth buildup in their dental hygiene regimen.

Aw, pretty yellow flower.

Be A Dentist

3Hour, aren’t those Ginger Vitus’s high heels you’re wearing?

A Ginger root canal then implant…

Looks just like Natalie Wood in Miracle on 34th Street. She’s behaving herself so her mom, played by the conflicted-until-the-end Maureen O’Hara, won’t have any excuse for not moving to the burbs.

Please leave my mouth alone

I once thought I’d found some of those tasty white candy-coated almonds in the bottom of my mom’s closet. Got a nice ambulance ride.

With me, when I catch one, I gave them to ants or to the spiders!

ATTENTION NEW READERS OR VISITORS.This is not a clique. We want new voices here. We want to read your comments. The only thing you need to know about posting on Frog Applause is that the lamer the comment the better. Lame is the game here. No judgements. No pressure to be witty or grammatically correct. We sometimes get a little sappy about Teresa and feel strongly about Frog Applause, but other than that, we’re pretty normal. Whatever “normal” is.

I hope I spoke for almost everyone. (Just trying to help.)

@Happy. Once again, you’ve come through with an outstanding bunny contribution.

Kind of silence of the lambs deep dodo.

@Happy. Where can I find photos of your new van?

Oh c’mon… we’ve all worn the gingham shirt tied at the midriff at one point or another, haven’t we?No?Well… me neither then…

Little yellow flowers that speak of perforation.Hypericum Perforatum

Today isn’t really St. John’s Day, though.It is the day for St. Pammachius and for St. Fiacre.But Ficre is also known as Fevre, so he could be Johnny Fevre from WKRP in Cincinnati.I guess that the St. John’s Wort, as pictured above, is supposed to be Venus Fly Trap then. It’s hard to tell.And where does Pammachius fit into the WKRP mythos?He duded about with St. Jerome, who appeared to Joan D’Arc, but I don’t know how that applies.I know St. John’s Wort can be applied internally as a tea or a powder to relieve depression. They have it at Walgreens.Is Teresa telling us that she is no longer sad now that the moths are all dead, adults, eggs, pupae and all?Sure… why not?