Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 22, 2012

Loved Freckles,Best dog I ever had.

Your warm glow is blinding me.

That 1958 Chevrolet doesn’t have a custom paint job. I remember some cars back then left the factory with a two-tone paint job. One color was always white. I suppose it was a major sales point for style, like side vents and fins.

I’m the Official County Freckle Inspector maam, and I’m going to cancel all the rest of my appointments today because it looks as if this might take a while.

Regarding “We feel the love;” I’m sorry my comment was misconstrued. I was making fun of the one guy who was the expert on drug use, and also trying to praise Jim’s Journal (which I love). I also love Teresa and Frog Applause! Please don’t send Vlad after me. I’m too old to die. The sarcasm was directed at the mystery writer, not Teresa. I’ll refrain in the future. I love Teresa’s work because they really do stretch the mind.

Oh Cathy. Eeek!

No playing connect-the-dots if you don’t mind.

Bless her little freckled heart.

Teresa – You are always very creative with your illustrations, but I REALLY like your art today. Give us more please.

I developed freckles as a lad after laying out in the sun for ill-advised amounts of time. I enjoy how freckles look on others, but on me, they have a tendency to become something more sinister.

I’m Scot and, shall we say, of pale complexion. Over the past few months I’ve found it necessary to have several small skin cancers removed. According to my physician, the underlying cause of these blemishes is the over exposure to sunlight when I was a kid working on my parents farm. In those days I had freckles and never wore a shirt or hat. My hair was cut in the style of the day (1940s & early 1950s)… something we called a GI buzz cut. So … the damage is accumulative. Over exposure to the sun 65 years ago resulted in skin cancer today

Has anyone seen a cartoon strip, TV sketch, or scene in a show, where an academic is publishing a paper that defines himself as “normal” and everyone else as “abnormal/mentally ill/personality disordered”?

I was in Dublin a couple of years ago during the middle of a heat wave. Everyday I would walk through St Stephen’s Green and see all the Irish people sunbathing. My only thought was “This will not end well”.

Teresa, re Blog": Most of us here are wired differently!

of course, just because you corrected yourself doesn’t mean you slipped that past Big Brother. You have been informed on and now a visit to room 101 will correct you further

Arthur Godfrey comest to mind. He said he was comparing freckles to Doris Day. He said he had freckles in places where she didn’t have places. I just got that joke this very day…..

Freckled people are unique…because like snowflakes, no two are alike. I have, at every opportunity, extensively researched this.

I tan very easily and simce I have this penchant to wear as little as possible, I am glad that I so not burn and to be sure I saw a dermatologist last summer and was informed that I had no suspicious growths.

Theresa, regarding your recent attempts at drug addiction, tomorrow we expect you to be very angry. Just remember, we are all here to help you through step 4, so don’t be afraid to ask or you might accidentally slip back to step 1 and have to start all over.

The Five Steps To Drug Addiction1. Denial2. Anger3. Bargaining4. Depression5. Acceptance

Reckless intersecting freckles shall be ticketed! I shall have to conduct a close investigation, of course.

Honey, if you don’t want freckles, avoid the sun.

There are not enough words to describe how much I love Vegemite.