Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 26, 2015

Think how Thomas Crapper’s heirs must have felt.

Don’t they have antibiotics for that now?

Growing up, Tom and Jerry was not to be laughed, or clapped at, the music was good though.

Hmm. On the one hand, William T. Jerome III was the president of the place I worked until a few years before I was hired. I wonder if Jerome Jerome had anything at all to do with Jerome. On the other hand, General Klapka was a true Hungarian patriot, though as a descendant on one side from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, I cannot always endorse its revolutionaries….

At least he maintained his sense of humor.

Jermone. heh…

One of my favorite writers. Not just supremely funny, but also wrote movingly on how it is to be poor and how humans adapt to the worst conditions in sometimes self-defeating ways. But his writing is nothing but compassionate and non-judgmental. Also wrote great pieces about his family life. Just a tremendous writer.

In the background, is that a microscopic image of some germ or other? An STD perhaps?

I wonder if Pastor Clapp’s mother was named Rhoda?

he named his first daughter Chlamydia

The sound of one man clappless? Naw!

Clap

Three Men in a Boat, not to mention a dog

Three Men in a Boat, not to mention a dog

Three Men in a Boat, not to mention a dog