Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 03, 2018

I say, what’s brown and sounds like a bell?

DUNG beetle.

Is it a dynasty or just a three-peat?

That kid needs to hang around Popeye to come up with some better material. Or maybe that kid is afraid of getting banned by GoCo.

Has anyone noticed the ridiculous statements under the REPLY and COMMENT boxes? “The reply cannot be blank!” and “The comment cannot be blank!”. How stupid do the o-lords think we are? And what’s with the exclamation point? Is one really enough? After all, we might not understand this critical information if the alarm is set at a mere ALERT LEVEL ONE.

Is there a precedent involved here? I mean, were users of this site so frustrated by their futile attempts to leave blank comments and replies that they sent complaint after complaint to GoCo? Is that what happened?

My favorite part is the same old story. We get dumb stuff we don’t ask for… stuff no one would ask for… because it doesn’t make sense to even ask.

Little boy belittles beetle by literal beetling

This looks like the beginning of a really low-budget horror film.

Don’t mind him. He’s gone off his Ritalin cold turkey.

Turn around, kid. Let those pincers or mandibles get hold of the seat of your pants, then we’ll see who’s called “buttley”.

I loved that beetle song, I want to hold your mandible.

He’s jealous of your dungarees.

I really enjoy my dung beetle dungrees

Gregor Samsa! Is that you?

Taunting the mutant giant beetle only made it angrier. It bisected the boy in brown, digested the parts, and retired to its hidey-hole, never to be seen again. Like the Brown Boy.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown, who had seven other children, all of them less brash, soon were able to sublimate the loss of that day and get on with their lives.

Moral of the Story: Don’t taunt it if can do the Giant Mandible Crush! (They may do that in the WWE, but we don’t here in Froglandia. We’re well-trained in wimpiness….)

Buggery most foul….