Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 06, 2025

Appears to be a fruitful suggestion…

Rationing the apricots may prove to be more difficult than imagined. Ask Captain Queeg about the strawberries.

CINNAMON!

ADD overdrive!

indubitably

Hug a beaver today and shower with a friend!

Gnaw …!

Today’s All-Natural, Animalistic Senryū du Jour:

Many a storied

beaver’s had a fine career

bringing up the rear.

I will have to go to the Rosetta Beaver to figure this out…

You give me beaver?!

—Peggy Lee et al

Your standard beaver will sometimes ponder changing to a littoral lifestyle and the health benefits of a piscatory diet.

— Former Chief Health Inspector Jacques Clouseau in That is Not My Pink Pantherfish

Wood chuck hug.

Breaking the law, breaking the law, what you going to do when they come for you? obey the law.

Now that’s applauding with frog legs and arms…

Well I’ll be d@mned! A tattooed beaver. That is a very auspicious sign for the coming year.

I am jealous of your squirting trellis; or should I say my orchids are.

I once wore a tasseled tablecloth as a Halloween costume. I got a lot of fun size Snickers that year.

I’m sensing we’re going to go on a treasure hunt. My antennae are out. The first clue to follow, obviously, is finding the squirting trellis under the tasseled tablecloth. The advice re apricots is clearly a red herring.

“Ration the apricots. Full speed ahead.”

Finally roasted the pig’s head yesterday. I got tired of it accusingly staring at me, every time I opened the fridge! ( And yes, it was delicious!)

Word search fun: Find “Nosferatu”, hidden in the text above!

(cheater clue on March 2, 2018 comic)

Burma Shave

I failed to ration the apricots and now I’m having, um, “stomach troubles.”

…do beavers spit or swallow the hard wood?…

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Squirting trellis? Do they have a license for that?

If you can stop chipping away at the bark of that branch long enough, I could hug you back forever and ever. Then we can dig out the apricots we buried in the hollow tree trunk. We can set up a comfy table with a festive tablecloth with those festive hanging tassels you like. Home sweet home, eh, Pookie?

Yearning for another month like August of 2023 …!

Beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver (tapping heads lightly) beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, FROG!! (Runs around circle quixotizing and sporkulating wildly)

From the Sector of Squirrels…

Oh. I thought it called for a tattered tablecloth. Never mind then.

Admiral Farragut: “Dam the torpedoes!”

John Paul Jones: “I have not yet begun to fight!”

Frog Applause™: “Ration the apricots!”