Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 07, 2012

Don’t footle around with me, mister. That is something up with which I will not put!

FB—Alambama?!

Footle? isn’t that what people play under the table?

Hang in there, pal, a good rafter is hard to find!

Apparently the picture of the boy falling from the DC-8 is authentic. In February 1970 a 14 year old Australian boy, Keith Sapsford, stowed away aboard a JAL DC-8 byt climbing into a wheel well. He fell when the landing gear began their retract cycle. John Gilpin, an amateur photographer who was testing a new camera lens, caught the incident, and claims not to have noticed it until after he developed the film.

The photograph shows the landing gear still partly extended, but one account says that Sapsford climbed into the wheel well and seated himself atop a closed wheel-well door. The door is supposed to close while the gear is down, to aid in streamlining the plane; it only opens while the gear extends or retracts. The effect was like a stage trap door and Sapsford fell to his death. (So it’s possible Gilpin might have forged the picture, but his photo is consistent with the facts and nobody came up with evidence of forgery).

Googling “DC-8” and “Sapsford” will bring you to quite a few sites about the event, including:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowaway

http://www.cryonie.com/en/2010/sadness.php

I’m Batman!

Permission to footle? Approved!

Hey you don’t have to give me permission twice.

RE: Blog – SNAKE!!!!! I hate snakes … snake on a store shelf ??? NO WAY !!! I’m outta here!!!

hm, footle—- could THIS be what Ms. Burrett has in mind?.Footle:ORIGIN late 19th cent.: .’from Old French, literally ‘have sexual intercourse with.’could it? could it?

Re: BlogDoes the sheep have worms?

it would have gotten him lynched, but it sure would have been cool if the ‘negro’ in the car with the redneck on the roof, had simply floored his accelerator.the redneck probably thought he was safe from that since the car was probably surrounded by his fellow rednecks jeering in their southern drawls. hm , on second thought, THAT would have been even cooler, if he had floored it.kinda not what MLK meant about passive disobedience, though

wikiFootle

I haven’t had a good artistic footle in a long time. Now is the time !

Re: FESTIVAL GOERS (1960s)If you remember the 60’s, then you didn’t have a good time !Just think of what that young lass looks like today as a sixty-something grandmother…

I miss the rock festivals of the 60s. Many a time I looked upon the peaks and valleys of nature, much like those in the blog photo.

Ha! Me likey.

I wonder how many of your disciples will gladly lead a poor innocent, like novice commenter comicnut4636, down the primrose path to the Blog, Teresa. I for one, can’t imagine anyone not thinking it appropriate for all audiences, but then, it’s a big stupid world, isn’t it?

RE: Pustules. Reminds me of nothing so much as a large sheet of bubble wrap. Makes me want to pop them.

so many helpful people.

MATERNAL UNITS

MotherThalweg

Love the homage to the 60’s. Never met a babe like that, though. Must not have been going to the right festivals!

I just love the portrait of the Chi! What a beautiful animal! Reminds me of ours, even though she is a solid color.

Re: Blog – Johnny Burnette. His hair-do makes his head look deformed!

Joe Dwas one

(Okay – I’m done)

What kind of bird is “That Darn Bird”? A peckerwood?

That bird in Teresa’s blog is a reall buttinsky.

ALL THINGS FROGI readSo lameO VladEnd game

Wauxie was much more attractive in her full regalia. What ever gave white people the gall to think they could pull this sort of crap?

And as I understand the world of damning to tarnation, only a God can do so.

Re “That Darn Bird”Is this akin to “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” or is more like “You can pick your friends and you can pick your butt, but you can’t pick your friends butt”?

I will have to try the hard baked egg trick. In my experience, the whole hard/easy to peel factor is based on the freshness of the egg. Fresh equals hard to peel, aged is easy to peel. I am wondering how a dry heat is going to affect the peel off the egg.Egg salad anyone?

Re: the Da Vinci (possible) painitng on the blog. This is clearly a picutre of the Madonna and child. The little boy on the left has got to be John the Baptist. Don’t know where the Daily Mail gets its art information from.

well, Teresa. you finely found a bunny image i could have done without seeing.

Ah, yes… the best time of the day!

I love to learn new words. Footle, footle – sounds good .. I thought I was just wasting time here, but it turns out I’m footling around!

FB—The scarabs appear more likely to be faience (though judging from a photo is hard).