Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 13, 2012

I’d rather read ‘Frog Applause’, myself…

Not really. I mean, a man can only spank his puppet so much and it’s not like FA takes that much time. Unless you check back 30 times a day to read all the comments.

On a completely unrelated note: IT’S CALLED BUSINESS. There’s a book called “Eat The Rich, The Poor Are Tough And Stringy.” I’ve never read it, but I always liked the title.

I guess there’s a case for multitasking.

I’m sure he could do both at the same time. Yes, there are occasions when that would be preferable.

Teresa, the appliance on the blog is a washing machine. My cousin had the skin of his right arm stripped off by one just like that, except it had a wringer (the guilty stripper) mounted on top.

Oh, and two other things: first, the cheeseburgers and fries are In ‘N’ Out double doubles. And the bison are just that – they were called “buffalo” because of a perceived resemblance to water buffalo, I do believe.

Either way, you’ll have enjoyed it.

My puppet thanks me for reading Frog Applause, every day. Now I know why.

It’s not going to spank itself…

I neither deny nor regret anything.

RE Blog: That’s not a washing machine. It’s R2D2’s grandfather.

If I were Art, I’d leave signs around town about living with me, too.

TMI

Spanking my puppet??? … Hummmmmm … excuse me for a minute …. I’ll be right back.

Always spank your puppet after reading Frog Applause. Never spank it before you get strange ideas.

Why on earth would I spank my puppet??? I’d just get sore knuckles!

I think spanking is excessive as I already have my hand up it’s butt.

The photo is of bison, not buffalo. Americans call the bison buffalo, but in fact a buffalo looks much more like a cow with thick horns (think water buffalo).

That old washing machine is like one that we used on my grandfather’s farm in Alberta. Ours had wringers as well and my mother always warned me to stay away as she was afraid that I would get my arm caught in the wringer. We also had a two-seat outhouse, no running water and a summer kitchen which was a one room structure which was used during the warmer months to keep the house cooler.

So should we retroactively change the guy’s name to Bison Bill Cody?

Nothing wrong with spanking one’s puppet as long as it’s done privately (or with very good friends).

re:blog My only question – Is Art good looking?

Who is Rotifer?

Re R2D2/washing machine:

My grandparents had one of those, and it stayed in their basement – and still got used intermittently – until my grandmother died in 2002. It wasn’t used to wash clothes anymore though; there was an attached spinner that always got our swimsuits after a trip to the lake. We could watch them spin, but no touchie!

There was also a mangle in that basement, which we also weren’t allowed to touch. For reasons Michael Farren’s cousin could talk about.

Ok, I’ve been thinking about this in the back of my mind since I first came in here today. How do marionettes figure in this?

You’ll grow hair on your palms and go blind.

Believe me, it’s not lucky to have that experience. It’s involuntary, painful, and as you mentioned, potentially damaging. The sensitivity is so intense that you’re not going to relieve it by sharing the joy, much less taking matters into your own hand. The less-direct remedies—cold showers, pure thoughts and looking at pictures of Anne Coulter—accomplished nothing. I was really glad it ended before I had to go to the ER.

It is to my belief you need kissing and hugging to get an erection with regular ED meds.I also believe a person could break the cigarett addiction or somethig like pain pill adiction with enough daily doses of Viagra or others.

Re: Cord ExtenderNot so much an extender as a field expedient US to European Plug Adapter.

For those who live outside of California, In-n-Out is a chain of burger joints that is unlikely to expand a lot in the near future because their ‘freshness’ policy requires them to all be within one day’s driving distance from their warehouse. Good fries and excellent greasy burgers!

Oh, and I too, got my arm caught in one of those wringer washers as a child… no permanent scars from that or running a sewing machine needle through the finger or tearing holes in various parts of the anatomy by means of other infernal machines. We’re all tougher than our mothers thought we would be and the proof is that we survived to adulthood.