Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 14, 2018

Maybe he just wasn’t funny. Only the lamest of the lame can win in Froglandia contests. Perhaps he should move to a neighboring village/hamlet/town. What are some of the neighboring communities? Who’s the official geographer?

Gordon should know that you can’t be the funniest if you are too serious.

Well, what would you expect, given that his manager was some guy named Dotty, or Dooty, or something like that…

He likely died of exposure, if he’s wearing daytime formal there.

Gordon was out of his gord on something so very important to his ego.

And how does this make Gordon different?

He could never win. It was all political. The judges were paid off. The audiences were primed against him. But he was never broken, never defeated. And somewhere in the darkness old Gordon, he broke even. But in his final words I found a joke that could have won.

That is what happens when there is more than one resident of Froglandia………

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput! Hahahahah!

“Oh geez, another hangnail!” was never going to win.

I see his problem: the finals were black tie, and he wore tails.

The Buddha said there was no satisfaction to be found, be content with your own discontent.

The only funny Gordons that I know have been banned by the GoComics Overlords. ( True Story !! )

I blame Ming the Merciless.

Now THAT’S funny.

In his next life, he vowed to come back as a whoopie cushion.

He craved to be the next Henny Youngman, until someone took his life instead of his wife ….

As Linguist noted above (and how can the official Grammar Police disagree with someone called Linguist?), our favorite GoComics Gordon, commonly know as Gweedo, currently is in isolation, in GoComics purgatory, and the Overlords will not reveal the charges, so no defense is possible!

But this possibly apocryphal perpetual loser must be a different Gordon. Not either, I think, Charles George “Chinese” Gordon of Khartoum; nor George Gordon, Lord Byron, though he was a notorious rapscallion.

I do not drink Gordon’s Gin, either. Not to my taste (I’ve long been more of a Beefeater….)