Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 22, 2012

Now don’t wish him ill…just wish him elsewhere.

That is gorgeous! With that face of yours, he will suffer dearly…

Listening to your voice gives me a headache, so consider your wish granted.

But at least she’s thinking of me.

Your kisses are sweet, honey, but your sentiments are not to my liking….

Whose quiche?

Then dissolve.

Well, OK then. I’m about to head out the door for running club where I’ll suffer a bit.

Heartburn

Frightfully decent of you old girl.

The vintage newspaper is from Clarksburg, WV, probably around 1920 or thereabouts. The Waldo Hotel and the Hammont and Harper restaurant were both Clarksburg fixtures. Camels were introduced in 1913; Thomas B. Sweeney became manager of the Equitable Life Insurance Company in 1885, and was a resident of Wheeling, WV. The prices seem consistent with those prevailing shortly after the turn of the century.

Don’t forget to spay and neuter your man-pets.

Your lips say no but your eyes say yes.

Actually, your lips desperately need the touch of mine.

I didn’t know any of those “the end” shots, except maybe the very last one. I’m thinking it might be “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”

who cooked her frog?

I am.

Damn girl … that’s cold! But I suspect you wouldn’t hurt a fly.

I’m pretty sure I know who you’re talking about, and you’re being too kind to her.

A lot of animals have been launched into space since the late 1940s, by different countries. Some survived and some didn’t:

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

We only launched two chimpanzees into space, both in Mercury capsules. Ham survived his flight and lived until 1983. Enos made two orbits of the Earth in a Mercury capsule in 1961. He survived in good shape; he died about a year later from an infection. Project Mercury also launched a couple of rhesus monkeys during test flights of the capsule (these were done from Wallops Island, Virginia, aboard relatively small rockets called Little Joe.) Those monkeys also survived. I think our last monkey flight was in 1969 aboard the Biosatellite 3 flight; the animal was brought down early and soon died from dehydration (zero-G did not agree with it).

The Soviets preferred to launch dogs; they found that the basic Moscow street mutt was tough enough to handle space flight. The French launched cats aboard some sounding rockets from Hammaguir in Algeria, although I don’t know how well they fared.

She could make me suffer anytime.

Awww! What did I do THIS time?

I’m afraid the link for blast from the past link is broken/blocked, Links to blogger but says I do not have access.

whoa – frog applause made it as today’s go-comics feature!