Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 14, 2024

I want to stuff your ding a ling in my ear.

Careful that you don’t ding it.

Don’t look like Chuck Berry

Actually, I find your Ling-a-Ding to be much more annoying, you Ding-Dong!

Any relation to Quasimodo?

I was actually planning to put your ding-a-ling in my ear.

I don’t mind your ding-a-ling, Ernestine, but must you keep saying “One Ringy-Dingy, Two Ringy-Dingy”?

All righty then, my chosen something is the clapper from your ding-a-ling. I won’t even have to stuff it in my ears.

(Do not look up “bell clapper deformity”.)

Never put anything in your ear except your elbow.

This message has been approved by the city council, the board of aldermen, and the Chamber of Commerce. (They’re all in cahoots anyway.)

Chuck Berry approves of this message.

If you conclude that one of us is out of place, and unnecessary at this time, then test your theory by removing yourself from the situation, via aural blockage. If there is improvement, then you have found the problem!

I tried hearing aids but that just made it* worse.

* Ding-a-lingus

wear noise-cancelling headphones

Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

This movie is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton.

No, no! I adore your ding-a-ling. Drat! Once again my esophageal furls were seen as disapproval.

tubalar bells

MORE COWBELLS!!

Now that is funny.

Well, Hell’s Bells …!

That must be Carol. Carol, of the bells.

Chuck Berry’s favorite and only sing along. “I like to play with…”

Ah, stick a clapper in it!

I see your ding-dong and raise you a Twinkie!

Hey now!!

And for sure, SOMETHING will be stuffed up safely!!

It’s all about diving into a world of blessed silence, with a BIG pair of EAR Mew UFFS!

Does this swing the Overlord Incense Censer? YES. It does.

Like the old folks say, sometimes you can not tell.

“What I tell you three times is true” The Bellman, from Hunting of the Snark.