Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 29, 2011

Oh, naked goat, a boy’s delight!

Watching a girl (his sister, I suspect) bathe…anything: his indiscretion. Clean-cut, “good” boy: yeah, sure!

I’m still not sure what those vacuum tubes were for. Are they like spark plugs for old TVs?

I like reading other people’s insane thoughts. It makes me feel better.

Vacuum tubes were what Daddy took down the drug store to test every Saturday when the cartoons came on.

Isn’t inflating goats for immoral preadolescence illegal north of the Mason Dixon?

Everybody says that transistors made miniaturization possible but… The first transistors on the market weren’t much smaller than nuvistor tubes and they were already making compactrons, multiple tubes in one envelope… I think that “smaller” was the direction that technology was heading

→ Portuguese

Ele negou saber qualquer coisa sobre indiscrição sua cabra inflável.

→ English

He denied knowing anything about his indiscretion inflatable goat.

→ Japanese

彼は彼の軽率な行為インフレータブルヤギについて何を知って否定した。

→ English

He denied to know anything about his indiscretion inflatable goats.

→ Chinese

他否认知道任何有关他的不检点的充气山羊。

→ English

He denied knowledge of any of his disorder inflatable goats.

→ Hungarian

Tagadta tudomása az ő zavar felfújható kecske.

→ English

He denied knowledge of his disorder inflatable goats.

→ Icelandic

Hann neitaði þekkingu á röskun hans uppblásanlegur geitur.

→ English

He denied knowledge of the distortion of his inflatable goats.

Taken from this site, which sadly will go away on December 1… but at least FAT might have a 3-month reprieve before it’s tragic demise.

Interestingly enough, the Google Translate API v2 is now available as a paid service, with 1M characters of text being charged at $20.00. That seems reasonable enough that someone could monetize a fun “babelization” site if they wanted to…

Coonskin Cap I did haz one, and only just remembered it. And yes, it had a snap-on tail. What a rush…

Re: Volkswagen. A relative who sells foreign cars told me about this older gentleman who refused to buy a Honda or a Toyota “…because of what the Japs did in WWII.” So my cousin said, “OK, how about a BMW?” The guy said, “Yeah, that’d be OK.”

A chaste endeavor, just so long as no portion of HIS anatomy inflates. “Why then ’tis none to you; for there is nothing, either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” _Hamlet_2,ii.

@ X_Tech: You’re just biased.

Bathe the goat? Or, bathe the indiscretion?

I believe his rubber ducky is goimg to need some attention too.

Goats on fire!

Vacuum tubes still very much used in the music/recording industry. Different sound than transistors—much preferred for electric guitar amps and certain microphones….the VF-14 tube in my Telefunken U-47 microphone was discontinued in the fifties, but, I believe they have some sort of reissue out now.FA is the only strip I can’t resist reading the whole comments section….learn something every morning here.

Never seen an inflatable goat, though there is an inflatable sheep (called a “Love Ewe”).

@Valis616: What kind of goats?

Re: Poster Child and Poster Chicken: Either the chicken escapes me or it escaped the post?

Re coonskin cap: It was Davey Crockett that popularized them in our town (Deerfield, IL) Fess Parker played Davey Crockett.

English no longer spoken or read here? Ellipsis: hesitation (for dramatic effect). “Anything”: object of verb. “Girl”: object of gerund (“watching”) and subject of phrase “girl bathe…anything.” My fault: I didn’t realize it was that hard.

The old radio tubes where so hot that my radio helped heat my room at night.

how gross ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl-QMuUQhVM

I’m too mentally lazy to follow your now erstwhile grammatical tiff with Sisyphos. IT was a good FAT. It was a noble FAT. It was a FAT that kept me from doing any actual work at my office on many a Saturday afternoon.The FAT is dead. Long live the FAT.

Androgenoide, thank you for the link to the hand-made vacuum tubes. That’s amazing craftsmanship!