Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 17, 2015

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    Randy B Premium Member over 9 years ago

    How many “nurdlers” are required for today’s toothpaste ads? One per major manufacturer? Or one per ad company?

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    Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr   over 9 years ago

    And despite what they show in their commercials, their packaging suggests the amount you should use ought to be no more than the size of a pea.But then, who reads that small print on the back of the package anyway? Especially when the bright, colorful front clearly shows a" nurdle"?Fun Fact: the curl on the top of a Dairy Queen soft ice cream cone is Trademarked.

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    painedsmile  over 9 years ago

    The world is Calvin’s oyster nurdle. He doesn’t let logic get in the way of his nurdling dreams. That’s the problem with adults. We’ve forgotten how to dream impossible/improbable dreams.-@beviek. There’s a godawful singing video of those characters. Please, don’t post it. I beg of you. Did I say please?

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    Steve Bartholomew  over 9 years ago

    Anyone remember when Superman sued Captain Marvel??

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    *Hot Rod*  over 9 years ago

    The astronaut’s make the best of toothpaste tubes, like mashed potatoes and gravy, stuck like a kindergarten babies.

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    FLIGHT SUIT  over 9 years ago

    Hey.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 9 years ago

    My local technical college does not include nurdling among their curriculum. Should I be notifying somebody in ayethority to lodge a complaint?

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    Arianne  over 9 years ago

    Losers see barriers, winners see nurdle hurdles.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Didn’t there used to be a President’s Council on Nurdling Proficiency? What ever happened to that? Don’t I remember seeing news stories of happy, shiny children with their nurdles on the front page of the local paper while the President walked down the line of nurdles, beaming and nodding and giving hope to the masses?Don’t I?

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    drbob456x  over 9 years ago

    You see one nurdler, you seen ’em all.

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    The Old Wolf  over 9 years ago

    It appears that both lawsuits were settled confidentially in 2011, so we are left not knowing who owns the concept of “knurdle,” (which is how I have always spelled it, long before these suits were filed.)

    What I have discovered is that I can brush my fangs quite successfully with a knurdle about one-third the illustrated size, meaning I joyfully stick it to the establishment every time I brush.

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    coltish1  over 9 years ago

    I once had a techie co-worker who would say, as a meeting concluded, “We’re off like a herd of turtles.” Today’s bootlegged Calvin and Hobbes makes me want to say something like “Aging like a curd of nurdles.”

    Please try to find it in your heart to forgive. St. Paddy would have wanted it that way.

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    Rotifer FREE BEER & BATH MATS ON FEB. 31! Thalweg Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Do I have to do >>> EVERYTHING <<< around here?

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    William Neal McPheeters  over 9 years ago

    … enough to curdle your nurdle!

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    Sisyphos  over 9 years ago

    When I paste my teeth, I do not nurdle, because, as others have already here noted, nurdles constitute excessive consumption, being several times the amount of toothpaste necessary to clean efficiently.Non-nurdlers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your paste!

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    Larry Miller Premium Member over 9 years ago

    I guess lawsuits over nurdles explains where there are no nurdle noodles.And you’d think my browser’s spell checker would know a word as important as nurdle (instead of suggesting “nurse”).

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    itchybacon  over 9 years ago

    Another entry for my list: WORDS I LEARNED FROM FROG APPLAUSE. (It’s becoming a long list!)

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Nurdles are also small plastic pellets use id injection molding manufacturing, and micro plastics added to cosmetics and some toothpaste.

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    painedsmile  over 9 years ago

    STRAY CHIHUAHUAS TERRORIZE ARIZONA TOWN, CHASE CHILDREN, RUN WILD.The dogs are forming packs, chasing children and defecating wherever they please in the Phoenix suburb of Maryvale. Maricopa County Animal Care and Control is struggling to get situation under control, but residents are fed up.-I think I just saw a chihuahua stalking Gaijinrabbit/!

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    6turtle9  over 9 years ago

    Turtles nurdle when they walk. Turtles nurdle when thet put wasabi on their sushi. Sometimes turtles nurdle when they talk. Turtles even nurdle when making Love.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 9 years ago

    The term is also use for the micoplastic pollution in the ocean.Micro plastics in cosmetics and toothpaste don’t break down and are not caught by sewage sanitation stations and find there way into the waterways.Als0, when plastics get into the ocean, the don’t break down. the crumble into smaller and smaller prices. They become micoplastic nurdles.

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    Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr   over 9 years ago

    Zappa – Dental Hygiene Dilemma(I don’t know how to re-size the videos.)“I’m stealing the ROOoooooooooooM!”

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    6turtle9  over 9 years ago

    Turtles nurdling Walking talking loving slowTaking time leaving

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    itchybacon  over 9 years ago

    You have an extra T in tinyurl. Check it again, friend.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 9 years ago

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    Zelmarific  over 9 years ago

    Can you curdle a nurdle and make it into a nice culinary dessertle?

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    Bill Thompson  over 9 years ago

    Brushing your teeth when you have sensitive gums can be a blood-nurdling experience.

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    itchybacon  over 9 years ago

    This is not the first one, but the first one that was successful. I think rabbits were used in some way to grow the donor organ.See date of press release, March 13, 2015. Recent news. ```From Wikipedia: In 2008, Anthony Atala and colleagues at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina transplanted bioengineered (ones) onto 12 rabbits. Laboratory-grown.

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    itchybacon  over 9 years ago

    No, it was donated. “Finding a donor organ was one of the major challenges of the study.” Just as people donate hearts, lungs, kidneys, liver, skin, corneas… this organ could be harvested regularly for transplantation. So many men could be helped, especially young men who’ve had to endure amputation for medical reasons.

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    bubujin_2 Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Little known lame “fact”: Dr. Seuss originally proffered his book “Yurtle the Nurdle” but the toothpaste companies gave him the brushoff. So he changed the title and the rest was history.

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