Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 22, 2018

For so many of us, life is a crap shoot.

C if you can bag a beetle, dung destined for destiny.

Dang! Dung doggy did didn’t do do!

Really need the dung of a larger herbivore to make it work.

Not much to work with in the dung of a carnivorous scavenger.

I was planning to use that baggie for my lunch sandwich tomorrow.

Where’s Happy? If there’s no bunny, there’s no Happy.

Both parties are acting responsibly today. Often it’s only the one.

All this jolted my memory and I thought of one of my first computer games – Dung Beetles on the Apple II

Nice manicure.

Why do you doo me like you doo-doo-doo? … sangeth the bung-deetle ….

It’s best to let sleeping dung lie.

Dung-dung-dung-dung.

Dung-dung-dung-dung…

DUNG!!!

(“Dragnet” theme)

Meet the Dung Beatles.

Dibs, well I don’t think so. Grandma will wipe the tears away big boy.

No need for the use of a sandwich bag as a lifting device, just leave the dung beetle’s meal in your neighbour’s neighbor’s yard. Likewise, random spots of fertilizer will help their thatching lawn..

I yield to the sacred scarab, the dung beetle, whose need is greater than mine for a freshly-deposited turd!

It makes one want to reflect on The Meaning of Life and similar questions. Then, one can shout at one’s opponent, “you’re full of scata!” What a topic of the day!