Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for October 01, 2018

Pithy! Pithy!

I was instantly tripped up. Tongue twisters are always hard for me. (I’ve always had a slight speech impediment. KIds were pretty cruel about it when I was growing up, too. Kids have always been the worst bullies and the meanest of the mean.)

I can’t think of anything else except CLOCKWORK ORANGE when I hear the word “clockwork”.

Teresa explores new dimensions of lame in “A Clockwork Carpal.”

A reminder to wind up the Chest Watches (well, they are too big to go on a wrist, or in a pocket, after all) to synchronize with the Great Horological Device of Temple of the Lame Frog in every Froglandia village and town. And because of the size, you cannot expect to grasp the crown of a Chest Watch with your fingertips, but must apply significant wrist action. Be sure to wear your pith wristguards so that your wrists are held in the proper respectful position.

Personally, I’m a fossil™ man myself.

The clock ran out and all of Flipper’s info went public. There was chaos, but the world is a little brighter, and a little cleaner, now. All the major players knew what was coming. Some took off to far away places that don’t do extradition. Some lawyered up and sheltered in place. A few just partied like it was the end of the world and then walked off a building or swallowed a pharmacy. The world shook. Some people took a hit in the markets, temporarily. Most people hardly noticed at all. It was just another story in the news they no longer cared about. Kelly cashed out and then bought back in when things dropped to rock bottom. The Shadow and Connie cleaned up. They’d been in cahoots for years. The Shadow hadn’t had any money, but he hadn’t any needs, either. He’d had a spending allowance, most of which he funneled to Connie, who kept it and grew it. I didn’t have anything like that. I went back to the same old same old, drifting along above the city, without attachments or obligations. It’s not for everybody. But I like it. My office hours are very flexible.

The tadpole who grew up to be levitated, probably.

Been meaning to search for the horologium, it’s just that there hasn’t been enough time..

Opposite tadpoles attract.

The doodled and rejected slogan at Timex. “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking” only makes me think of a time bomb, though.

It doesn’t matter what it’s about as long as your apple says you’re alive.

@Sisyphos – The Russians hacked my account.

Tadpole …? Looks more like a merm-sperm ….

Most statements or comics using ‘pith’ work as well if de-lisped.

Counter-Clock World is a 1967 science fiction novel by American author Philip K. Dick.

It was expanded from his short story “Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday”

The novel describes a future in which time has started to move in reverse, resulting in the dead reviving in their own graves.

I’ve heard of turning frogs into princes with a kiss; what happens when you kiss a tadmaiden princess?

I appreciate a hard-working, motivated (or should I say motorvated?) mermaid with a good, steady stroke! That way leads to success and to eventual Gold Metals, though I confess I am not sure how she’d manage standing on the winners’ platform….

That isn’t a tadpole-man, nor a spermatozoa homunculus. It is a Child of Yig, the Serpent God. See H.P. Lovecraft.