Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 10, 2018

Stick it in your ear, buddy.

I postulate the persistance of a pustule like ego

He should run for president.

Is he wearing that hat… or is it wearing him?

Nice portrait of 45.

I know it is not about me because I am separate from, (and clearly better than), the rest of humanity.

The Fiery of the Matador

I can’t hear the word obdurate and not think of the Muppets.

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https://youtu.be/ueuA-9pqRok

DJT’s junior high graduation pic. The notes are from his classmates.

http://www.frogpubs.com/pub-the-frog-rosbif-paris-1.php

Pink pomp and citrine circumstance.

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From Othello:

Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,

The spirit-stirring drum, th’ear-piercing fife,

The royal banner, and all quality,

Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!

I’d like to order the mega-lo mein-iac and dim son to go, please.

Arianne, you’re Trumping me every time.

Is that Grace in the depository window with a rifle?

From several hundred years down the road, things usually appear quite foolish.

You will never convince contemporaries of the age of that fact, however.

They cannot ever see that future.

Lights are off in each room, evidently someone hadn’t paid the power bill..

He appears to be outsized in more ways than one.

Will hats ever make a comeback for men?

I rarely if ever don academic regalia, but even so I can be as obdurate as any lesser frogs.

Fight fiercely, Harvard (or Yale, or Chicago, or Stanford, or West Texas A & M, or whomsoever you favor)!

Aristophanes said it best. I need not repeat. Prepare the next two scenes for tomorrow’s class, my classical tadpoles!