Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 19, 2018

Please, no left handed cockroaches. They bully the termites.

Seems fair enough.

The good sister may start the passing of a collection plate.

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You think you lost your face

Well I saw it yesterday

A beetle’s in its place

And it told you what to pay

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3 peppercorns per year

And you know that can be bad

3 peppercorns per year

And I think you’re being had

Shreeeewww!

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He taxed you, yeah, yeah, yeah

He taxed you, yeah, yeah, yeah

With a bug like that, you know you’re being had.

What cup size do you figure this guy wears? nut or boob g?

There is no sense of exiting planet Earth, since there seems to be just as much evil in Outer Space..

Up the creek without an orr or paddle.

I will refuse to pay. On principle.

No Peppercorns for Shrew Mice!

No Peppercorns for Shrew Mice!

Hawkwind – Space Is Deep · https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGwq620thqo

The answer is taking a blow to the belly and knocking the wind out of somebody.

Thank goodness for the tax cut!

Interesting Historical Footnote: Peppercorns are a teaching tool for 1st year law students.

1. True ___

3. False ___

4. Who cares ___

9. What’s a peppercorn? ___

One grain of rice on the first square, two grains of rice on the 2nd square, four grains of rice on the 3rd square, eight grains of rice on the 4th square, sixteen grains of rice on the 5th square,…

I put my peppercorns in a peppermill and grind them. You can have my peppercorn dust at the bottom of said peppermill. Tax bill PAID IN FULL.

Comparison of a shrew and a mouse.

http://animals.mom.me/comparison-shrew-mouse-4709.html

Some shrew mice ARE rodents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archboldomys

How confusing!

Save those Peppercorns! By analogy to the holding in Chappell & Co Ltd v Nestle Co Ltd (1960 AC 87), you can trade them for bitcoins and covfefe!

Donald… is that you?

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Taming of the Shrew Mouse

3 peppercorns per year may not seem much, now, to most of us. But add in an infestation of shrewish mice and even a Man of Substance might wish for a carapace face.

Oh, the shame of it all! Will no one control me this pest?