Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 28, 2021

Hard to give a cluck about someone who is always pretending.

Don’t quack in a borrowed cluck either.

Be proud of the weird noises your interspecies chimerism has gifted you with! Be unique in all ways, you wonderful abomination!

Where in the library is the CLUCK section? I want to borrow a clucky voice.

How much does a CLUCK voice cost?

It wasn’t a cluck it was a squawk.

Chicken purring like a kitten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rez-u39PKIg&t=17s

Polly want a quacker cluck, and give a didley squat?

Voices on the air waves from Chuck Cluck with a cluck, cluck, here and a cluck, cluck there, here a cluck, there a cluck, every where a cluck, cluck…

Distorted sort of bullfrog sound.

…I sometimes cluck in a borrowed voice filled with Tv-isms…

…I quote Homer…(Simpson, that is)…

…‘Lisa, I never apologize. I’m sorry, that’s just the way I am.’ …

…or from movies…

…"but they won’t allow them to write, ‘cluck’ on their airplanes because they call it obscene. ". …

…even songs…

…‘you little sh>t you done it, now. I hope they throw away the key.’…

…even comics…

…[pick your favorite FA surveillance pickle quote]…

good grief…

…aack!…

…I am a mindless animatron splashing mindless mudder against the walls of society!…

…but I do have good news…

…’I’ve saved a 15% with GEICO…

…{I feel so clucking cheep}…

Buh… GOCK! 9_9

done, done, done and done.

She sells sea shells…

I’ve heard of not giving a rats ass but this is clucking ridiculous! Has she no shame?

Looks like one a’ them new-fangled plague masks. Or maybe old-fangled.

Cluck off.

66 years ago today, 24 year-old James Dean, driving a Porsche Spyder, accidentally lost a game of chicken with 23 year-old Donald Turnipseed, driving a Ford Tudor … Dean’s passenger, German Porsche mechanic Rolf Wütherich, was badly injured but survived … had Dean survived, he would have turned 90 on 02/08/2021 … chicken feed for da mind …!

welp – there goes ventriloquism

Dumb Clucks…

Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little,

Cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more

Steal it!

“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.”

“The quote in this form was a favorite of Steve Jobs but he but he was probably (mis)quoting Pablo Picasso who said “Lesser artists borrow; great artists steal” – who in turn might be rephrasing Igor Stravinsky, but both sayings may well originate in T. S. Eliot’s dictum: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.” – The origins of this quote itself is an example of great artists stealing.”

Unless you don’t give 2 clucks

So no one should be a chicken impressionist?

Surely, this must be more profound than the inanity it suggests? —Must have some kind of chicken-tender Surrealist overtones? High-pitched cluck clucks?

https://www.myinstants.com/instant/rubber-chicken-26693/

With each passing day, I become more obsessed with Elizabeth Holmes’ barritone.

Pek yo weapon…nothing quacks the pak. Quacker down the hatches.

One good quack, deserves another. Don’t fake it, make it.An Earth , shattering quacker, borrower faking Big O.

Clucker. Lender of the borrowers tender.