Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 06, 2023

The modern English usage, or the Latin and French?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footle

too bad.

Footle Paper…

Footle on paper…

To footle: engage in fruitless activity, or to mess about — feet not required!!

( #FB00730 — is that hung above ALL bookstores in the Netherlands!? I don’t or CAN’T remember that, but maybe it’s only because I was engaging and enjoying other possibilities that, say, were available in Netherlands coffee shops (smoke-able treats!!))

I respect the eye contact.

Easy to see why it would be denied.

One might surmise that the asking for permission was, in this case at the very least, the act itself for which permission was meant to be sought. Clearly, permission is less easily forthcoming in such a situation, than is forgiveness.

no footle for you!

It’s a slippery slope. What’s next? Handle? Tongle? Fingle? Vibratle?

Connect the dots, perv.

One thing softened the blow when I went to the dentist as a wee lad, and that was Highlights® magazine. And I was always disappointed when the dot-to-dot puzzle was already done. They always struck me with an odd but pleasing aesthetic sensation, kind of like eating vinegar potato chips.

Footling is allowed only to those who are 60 years old or older. Anyone caught footling, not of age, will be confined to their room til further notice.

If you wish to counter the action, please call your local head Footler for further instruction!

…my wife considers my meditating footling around…

…but if Iie down in my recliner…

…gently…

…use my top secret word…

…and start relaxing from my toes up…

…if I don’t force the issue…

…but just let it happen…

… I sometimes…

…with my eyes gently shut…

…see snippets of things…

…for example…this morning I saw in my mind’s eye…

…(3rd eye blind?)…

…tall ships full a sail…

…not once…

…but twice…

…why or how…

…I do not know…

…but I will lamely ponder these results…

…while I drink the worst coffee in the world…

…Blackhorse style coffee…

…an old pot of Choice & Sanborn with sassafras added …

I’m footling every time I come to Frog Applause. And I have no regrets. This is one of few webcomics out there that can send me scurrying to the dictionary. <3

Much ado about Fiddle-faddle …!

( not Poppycock )

I don’t know.. if you have to ask permission you’re out of your lane, dood.

It’s forbidden in Froglandia to friviolously footle your flute.

fair enough to ask. not today sir

What was your Footle score today?

I tried connecting the dots. Was I footling?

I’m torn. I can’t decide if the dot-to-dot art is a chupacabra barfing a dozen cake donuts with sprinkles, or Vlad with Rotifer in a head lock. Either way, I’d give it a 9+.

I need to print this out and connect the dots.

My Big Brother and me slept in a bed when we were to catch zz’s throughout a part of our eternal lives each single handedly. Man he was nuts and I be a happy camper of all man made life sentence I’m inhaling.

Sorry for the footle.

Fool’s footle, this! Or even "fools footle’!

Bright background of golden-yellow of course brings this to mind: https://tinyurl.com/2p9b9hf6

Sidebar: It was Teresa who posted a Lhasa link here years ago that introduced and turned me on to one of my favorites, the late Lhasa de Sela…

Footle in mouth