Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for October 19, 2020

Lion tamers wear those boots to stop becoming lamer.

Fashionable dogs react badly to jodhpurs, riding boots, and brimless caps. Makes them want to bite something.

Just as lions do in the wild, the males lean back at home and wait for the females to hunt. Oh, umm… That introduces another dimension into the species-shift.

…said the king of his own castle…

…when I was growing up, almost everyone had a dog chained up to its doghouse…

…even Snoopy had a dog house…

…now there are invisible fences…

…But Matilda still hated being a were dog…

…Johnny was so easy to push around except those three days a month when the moon was full…

…it was hard for her even to get a Scooby snack…

…if I’m lion I’m dying…

…it was fun sniffing butts, though…

I remember dogs chasing ambulances…

Be afraid….be very afraid…..if you wear a uniform….((((((growl))))))

Nice little temblor in the Northwest Territories yesterday morning.

A zen saying for all dog owners: be … the … boss.

Blasphemy! A dog will never be a cat! I dunno, a bear maybe?

Many dogs are more like “pussy cats” at home. The friendly, 65-80 pound lapdogs (no Irish wolfhounds allowed!*), the eager young pups.

*I had a senior colleague who had a pair of wolfhounds. but they were mostly not indoor doggies, at least not when I was visiting in the upscale Cleveland suburb.

**[Yes, there was no referent; I’m just being typographically consistent] I had a Bad Experience when young with a high-strung cocker spaniel gifted nominally to me by an uncle, though it and I never got along at all. It would gladly have eaten me for breakfast….

Besides, I have little sympathy for some dude dressed like a wannabe member of the Squadristi.

No, Ma’am, Richard T really was correct when he recognized the poetic quality in Your art. The difference between Your poetry and his is that his wordification was meant to advance the theme of the particular cartoon in which it appeared and Your wordification is meant to …. well, … er … uh … what the hell is Your wordification meant to do?*

Perfect example: “surveillance pickle.” The enduring farcicality of “surveillance pickle” is beyond question (if you don’t believe me ask @Brass Orchid) but how did the poetic quality of that combination advance the theme of FA or the blog or Wordnik or wherever it was You first put those 2 words together?*

* Rhetorical questions – but even so that’s okay – nobody understood Van Gogh while he was alive either.

Facing off with lion dogs takes a lot of … curage ….

Lion?

NO!

Just a slight shading of the woof.

If obscurity be the language of Frog Blog then LittleLameLetters will set you oblique.

Personalized by dint of your own email address, and when the “mood” strikes our Sister of Lame, an LLL (not to be confused, concussed or contraindicated with LOL) can be yours simply by following the Link below:

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My dog will bark at you as long as there is a window between dog and you.

So, does that make it a Dogon or a Liog?

Re: cow shoes

I have long since retired my cows shoes, but since we are still under psychedelic prohibition I do wear my flying squirrel wings when flying. If only you could see the looks on peoples faces when I swoop overhead; not to worry though, I always relieve myself before flying.

Re: dress like a dictator day

Dictators are for chumps. Everyday is dress like Vlad day for me, except Monday’s, Monday’s are dress like Grace day.

Is this guy coaching his service hound..?.

The dog is full of comebacks by his tail of the human hound..

You can’t just mix up canine and feline like that. Interspeciesism is a radical left ideology!

The Blog was wrong. I am silently judging everybody… all the time…

Judge not lest you be judged and can grin and Barrett …!

Who’s a good boy?

I wish i had met Kay.

Re: Rest In Peace

Thanks for this, I died laughing!

What is every lion at home?

On the Frog Blog, here’s the link to the Diet-Coke-in-an-airplane video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FirRkMbOeBE

(I noticed immediately that they didn’t mention surface tension in the video. Higher surface tension, bubbles pop faster. Lower surface tension, more persistent foam. Surfactants lower surface tension and promote foaming. Some naturally occurring compounds, like sassafrass root in traditional root beer, act as surfactants; modern commercial root beer has no sassafrass root, so an unflavored surfactant has to be added to give it the expected foaminess and mouth feel.)

More than you really wanted to know: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/PT.3.4069

Also on the Frog Blog, the memorial stone with a reclining figure gazing at a head in its hands is the Grave of Fernand Arbelot in Paris:

“Musican and Actor. He is also listed as an architect in some descriptions. Very little is known about him. He is remembered for his one desire in death to forever gaze on the face of his wife. The grave monument was designed by Belgian sculptor Adolphe Wansart (1873-1954) and constructed in 1946. The Epitaph on the grave reads: Ils furent emerveilles du beau voyage qui les mean jusq’au buot de la vie. (They marveled at the beauty of the journey that brought them to the end of life). Arbelot died in Paris, France, during the German Nazi occupation.”

♬ Watchdog in the night,

A stupid beagle you were -

Watchdog in the night,

But later on when I

returned to my poor home -

how your jaws did foam,

You became a snapping dog,

A fearless crazy yapping dog… ♬