Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 28, 2021

I’m pretty sure that water balloons were supposed to be banned under the Geneva Convention but a total ban was eventually considered to be too dodgy and a limited ban did not receive enough copies.

I think a hit to the bladder should count for more points than splashing a foot.

That’s one helluva patelluva.

Hey, if a 4H pencil is hard, and a 4B pencil is soft, where does a FB00847 pencil sit on the scale? [I once had a full set from 8H to 8B, but I think the art store didn’t carry the 9’s]

Somebody needed to dodge better. A direct hit on (his?) genitals. And no points either. I don’t understand the rules of this game yet but there seem to be lots of pirated copies (100)

Water or Beer Ballooned by a Clown and Prostitute avoiding Trojan Viruses. The cradled dropped by baby balloon, boomers.

On the fourteenth day of Frogsmas, the Resplendent Cartoonist gave to me . . .

Fourteen Captains Spacing, Thirteen Pickles Peeking,

Twelve Squiggly Green Jello Cups, Eleven Headless Music Box Dancers,

Ten Teresas leaping, Nine Annoying Relatives, Eight Cheesy Bread Winning,

Seven yams with sprinkles, Six McMuffin Alignments

. . . Five Golden Tater Tots! . . .

Four Squirrel Jerky, Three Mocking Frogs, Two Mince Pies,

And a Spork Hanging From a Pear Tree.

On the fifthteenth day of Frogsmas, the Resplendent Cartoonist gave to me . . .

Fifteen twits-a-twirling

Fourteen Captains Spacing, Thirteen Pickles Peeking,

Twelve Squiggly Green Jello Cups, Eleven Headless Music Box Dancers,

Ten Teresas leaping, Nine Annoying Relatives, Eight Cheesy Bread Winning,

Seven yams with sprinkles, Six McMuffin Alignments

. . . Five Golden Tater Tots! . . .

Four Squirrel Jerky, Three Mocking Frogs, Two Mince Pies,

And a Spork Hanging From a Pear Tree.

I see a blue bird and a cute little face of a groundhog buried in the abundant sack of fluid…..sloshing to get out!

I is intrigued by it all. Keep it up.

I used to be a dodge ball hustler. Yes, there is such a thing.

Here, kitty, kitty.

Enough copies for the elephants of of surprise…

It may not be obvious, but Teresa has cleverly, and with permission, reprinted a “Find the Object” game from a 1948 edition of Highlights™ magazine. If my research is correct, the hidden objects are a blue bird, a cute little face of a groundhog, and abundant sac of fluid, a Bowdlerized anatomical sketch, and some printer’s notes and recommendations. The magazine replaced its “Find the Object” editor shortly after publication. It turns out he later ran for Congress on a “Know Nothing” platform, and lost to a mannikin.

What did Barbie® do when she cheated? She went beyond her Ken.

I don’t know why I did that. I’ve had that infantile “I am sixteen going on seventeen” song from “The Sound of Music” going through my head this a.m. I do apologize.

How many water balloons a minute could a wood chuck chuck?

Very entertaining today … now … where was eye …?

buy now before there are none left, while supplies last

Artful dodger, limited edition run, illicit trade exotics, no prince is he, for he has lost the family jewels.

tornrice Soy ?

tarprise Say ?

tarnrico

terpriss

torprise Seu ?

Good autobiography title.

I’m veering off on the Glib Exit Ramp. and attributing the “limited to 100 copies” to the water balloons themselves (despite this being a very tenuous connexion). Hence, You the Target know going in that there can be no more than 100 hits, 100 soakings. I don’t understand the scoring system, so I have no idea how many points particular combinations might generate; but I’d suggest a codpiece or at least an athletic cup. just in case—wouldn’t want to tarnish the Family Jewels, now, would we?

Have a lovely artificially rainy day! See ya on the lame side, same lame time, same lame station, same lame commentary!

Is the thingie five or nine?