Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 15, 2012

Not sure how you can read them…

Well, how was the lemonade?

What was at the bottom of her list?

?clean bathroompay billsbuy lightbulbscall doctorweed gardenmop floor?make lemonade

do laundryclean bathroompay billsbuy lightbulbscall doctorweed gardenmop floorfix showermake lemonade

I agree with Dogsniff: it’s “drawers”, not “shower”.

ADD: fix list. :-Ddo laundryclean bathroompay billsbuy lightbulbscall doctorweed gardenmop floorfix drawersmake lemonade

Re Blog: Can’t wait to read Bob Stockton’s book " Listening To Ghosts ". It has gotten very good reviews.I’m a little worried about his next book. The picture of Emperor Norton I bears an uncanny resemblance to moi. Did Bob, perhaps, sneak a picture of me leaving my Ballard Street abode on Whimsical Wednesday ? Just asking ?

Re the Emperor Norton book, on the blog: I myself had a book about the Emperor published last year, by Untreed Reads, http://www.untreedreads.com/?p=2708(Shameless self promotion.)

looks like it….

List we forget.

The “Mormon Octopus” hate literature on the blog is highly reminiscent of anti-Semitic imagery that flourishes even today. Do a Google image search for “Zionist Octopus” and you’ll find numerous examples.

Meanwhile, I’m very pumped up to see Spectreman on the blog. He was one of my childhood favorites, and as I type these words, there is a tin wind-up Spectreman toy within my field of vision.

Fun Spectreman trivia:

1. In Japan, the series was originally named for Spectreman’s enemy: The show debuted as “Space Apeman Gori,” and was later renamed “Space Apeman Gori vs. Spectreman,” and finally just “Spectreman.”

2. The Spectreman theme song is in the same key as The Who’s “Pinball Wizard,” and the two songs’ guitar intros sound almost identical.

3. Spectreman carried a strong environmentalist message, with many episodes focusing on pollution as a serious problem for humanity.

Why, yes! You have! —Nine firm red lines across your bottom! Cat o’ nine tails?

Re: my cousin. He suffered no long-term effects and, amazingly, no scarring either. The texture of the skin on that arm was forever strange, though.

always good to get to the end of the list

HOT CROSS BUNS

The bottom line(s).

Re Blog (Japanese):.I like the idea of having one or two words to describe those things.

The chore between ‘call doctor’ and ‘weed garden’ is my favorite.

If she’s fixed her drawers, I wish she’d put ’em on. —Some wonderful images on the blog.

She is shaped like a vanilla coffee bean.

To paraphrase Lisa Simpson, I’m impressed you can write so legibly on your own butt…

Man, I thought that penultimate list item was ‘fix desserts’. ‘Fix drawers’ fits better though because she’s not wearing any ‘cause they’re broken, obviously.

At least she doesn’t have a tramp stamp. I would like to offer my services in erasing her list, with my special hands on approach.

When she makes a “to do” list on her derrière she is teasing.

On the chest of a barmaid at YaleWas imprinted the price of pale ale.While on her behindFor the sake of the blindWas Teresa’s to-do list, in Braille.

Phil Frank, who did the Farley comic strip spent the last few months of the strip (and his life) on a campaign to have the Bay Bridge renamed in honor of Emperor Norton and I, for one, would have voted for it if it had it ever made it to the ballot.

yoko meshi – “horizontal rice”. Since Japanese was traditionally written vertically, and from right to left, reading horizontally and from left-to-right is stressful. By analogy, learning a foreign language is similarly disconcerting.

Latter-day Saint statistics:

Total Membership1898: 267,2512011: 14,441,346  Converts1898: 6,0002011: 281,312 Full-time Missionaries1898: 2,0002011: 55,410 full time, plus 22,299 service missionaries Despite the calumny and continual publication of anti-Mormon literature, the growth of the Church continues exponentially; in fact, the more they publish, the faster the Church seems to grow. Whatever your spiritual walk in life, regardless of the source from which you draw your strength – be it humanist or as a member of a community of believers, two simple guidelines suffice in a world that works for everyone: 1. Don’t be a dick2. Promote what you love, don’t bash what you hate. The Old Wolf has spoken.

RICHARD WILKINSONAll the time that’s elapsed since my post above was on a sidetrack from this blog entry. I recognized several of the birds as corvids (the family of birds with Jays, Crows and Magpies in it). And there were hummingbirds and everything else looked more or less neotropical so I was trying to ID them but as time was slipping away, I gave up. Fun wile it lasted though.Why, yes, I’m a birder. Lapsed from hard core to casual.

Mind,,, crossing off list does not necessarily mean completed. Sometimes I note things that need to be done so the ignoring of them is sweeter.

It would be drawers, she obviously needs a pair.

@Randy_BOxnate

Thanks for these great suggestions as toward arranging priorities. Have copied them both to decide which would be the wisest course to be followed in my case.However, would like to note that the making of the lemonade has its best application with those living alone.If married, don’t let the little woman catch you.

@The Old Wolf

Re the statistics post, the words of wisdom posted below said statistics have been burned into my memory. Thanks for having spoken.

Re: Clocks (Blog): This image really hit my nostalgia button. That boy, seen from the back, could have been me; I think I had a sweater like that at that age .. I can’t remember being in Paris at the time though, and the girl also doesn’t ring a bell.More wonderful Edouard Boubet pictures here.You might also want to watch this video for more great bw pics, and some nice blues too.

Kind of a one-time use, wouldn’t you think? Although, quite a fun use of an available resource. It’s probably the geek in me, but I keep wondering how the list got there in the first place, and who did the crossing-off.

1. Don’t be a dick2. Promote what you love, don’t bash what you hate.

I must compliment the person behind the “Street Art” on the Blog. Compelling image. It shows many characteristics of a worthy sketch: it’s realistic, it shows weight, and it contains an attitude, not only of the subject, but of the artist. Make what you will of the subject’s attitude, the artist accepts and honors it through the arresting and honest portrayal.

Good thing she’s not a supermodel or that would be a much shorter list.

@The Old Wolf

Please don’t be put off with that which follows.Know nothing of Mormonism, and have no desire to become an adherent to any organised religion,and have no problem with your views.Tolerance for all.Been there, done that,with organised religion.Personally believe religions to be like flags, as they tend to only create divisions among people.If those who wish to find God wish to do so in houses of worship, this is fine.,but truly believe God to have 3 attributes-omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, and God does not need a house built by human hands to reside in. Believe belief in God to be a truly “imside job” for us all to work on, individually, and share beliefs with others, listening to their views respectfully, and trying to gain an understanding of the best teaching of all spiritual views.Believe the notion of “the more ingredients, the better the stew”. We have it on good authority, and believe you would agree, that the"kingdom of God is within". We are to be judged by how much of God there is within us. How clean our own personal temple is. Wish to make the tabernacle of my body the closest approximation possible of the best of all religions as believe all religions to be based on universal spiritual principles.Where we all catch hell is when we listen to the fundamentalists and dogmatists who divide us-you know-“my way or the highway”. We’re really in deep excrement here.Also at the point of where the bashing you speak of rears its ugly head.Will do my utmost to adhere to rule#1, and hope all others will do likewise. Have the greatest respect for the 2 rules given.They are beyond reproach.Realise that Frog Applause is a fun place, and enjoy the great stuff here, but every now and then express some views, as you have done,and has been done by me.Hope that those looking for some light-hearted fun (me, too) have not been put off by my response to you. Felt the need to speak to your post, and don’t believe that just because “it’s just a comic strip” should cause it to be viewed as any less of a legitimate comment forum than any other on the web.Thank you for your post.

I LIKE STREET CORNER RELIGION.

Sure doesn’t look like Earl Hickey!

@The Old Wolf

Thank you for the kind words.Was hoping that the post would not be offensive to -you, but your post struck some chord in me ,and the rest just flowed.Please know that the rules will be with me from this time forward, especially #1-need to be a little vigilant here. Harbor no hate towards any.Absolutely honor your Mormon views-have never known one personally-and know nothing of Mormonism-and was glad you did not take my post as an attack on your faith._We’re all trying to find the author of Love in our own way.We are all brothers-One-from the same source and returning to same.Best wishes and thank you.

That’s a pretty big list!