Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 21, 2016

Utah tried and tried—for almost 50 years—to win statehood. The Utah area became a part of the United States in 1848—but it took until 1896 for Utah to become a state.

Lorgnettes? Spy glasses? Artificial eyes?

Is it not true a person can float on Salt Lake without any effort?

I have been to Utah. Ate lunch at a place in Green River with a view of the bridge in 1983. The ketchup on the table was in a Heinz bottle, but I remain skeptical that it was Heinz ketchup.the ketchup was a lie

The ketchup flowed like water, as the swallows patrolled the air around the Main Street (Hwy 70) bridge. Caught Hwy 666 heading south toward Gray Mountain through Cortez after that. They’ve changed all the road names since then.

only use DELMONTEY on fries

Nine of them… older than 120 years… tiny… and skeptical? - YOU’VE READ MY JOURNAL!!! (diary, daybook, log, logbook or chronicle?) now I’m skeptical!!!

I stopped buying Heinz when John Kerry became an Important Public Figure. Not that it would do any good at all. Just because I wasn’t going to contribute to the gigolo’s upkeep and maintenance. Try Del Monte or Hunts.Join ConAgra. ConAgra is your friend…

Just the facts.Nine circles to the Inferno.Nine Aztec and Mayan Lords of Night.Nine Nazgul.Nine Supreme Court Justices. (1 pending)Nine Hindu beliefs.Nine forms of the Goddess Durga.Nine Muses.And each of these has a tiny skeptic.And while each set of nine is different, the skeptics are always the same.The Nine Lives of Chloe King was actually a pretty decent show, and suitable for family viewing, for the most part.

There is only 1:

“Random apathy, rigorous accusations, modifiers, the greens, the runs, gravity, a line of fire between two endpoints while B repetitively breaks away into a pile of corks.”

Nine little words to express whatever the skeptics think they could possibly mean, in context of course.And to those of you agonizing over ketchup/catsup brands, one word: mustard.

Is this it?

That very tall catsup bottle looks like it’s a water tower in disguise, and that ladder along the outside confirms it. Either that or it’s the venue for the quadrennial Catsup Diving Championships, held in beautiful Ashtabula, Ohio. (The nine tiny skeptics know all about that last part, and don’t buy a single bit of it.)

The tenth finger is apparently a true believer.Where is Pointer?Where is Pointer?Here I – oops…That was much sharper than expected.When you see a plan, hatchet!

If you were truly in the heart of Utah it would have been fry sauce, not ketchup.

Sweet Loretta Fat, she thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan.

Beatles #9-#9-#9-#9

Very good! Thank you.