Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 22, 2017

Wet pack, or dry?

The prediction is that you will be the belle of the tea ball.

A real social butterfly. Like moths to a flame.

Tea leaves may not keep an individual warm enough, but the coat is ideal..

The stuff things are made of.

Drinking tea through a nipple.

You know, I could write a book

And this book would be thick enough to stun an ox

Cause I can see the future and it’s a place

About 70 miles east of here. Where it’s lighter

-Laurie Anderson; Let X = X

My eye is drawn to the spot – I’m not sure why. Oh yeah, that’s right: to read the tea leaves.

After years of semi-observant research it is my conclusion that one of five generic comments covers every Frog Applause™ strip:

1. Don’t you people ever sleep?

2. I don’t get it.

3. Looks like the algorithm that creates Frog Applause™ is malfunctioning AGAIN.

4. The overlords aren’t gonna like this.

…. (and, if all else fails) …

5. Spork!

According to one variation of quantum theory, (not one of the good ones), by looking at the tea leaves to read the future, I was actually determining the course of the future.

She spilled her pipe?

She’s really stacked – one butterfly stacked on top of another.

I blame the Butterfly Effect.

The Japanese monster Clothra, it only eats designer clothes.

Nice heavy jacket. But it reached 94º F in my area today, the first day of fall. So I wouldn’t be wearing such a heavy jacket. leaving me, so it seems, in naught but tea leaves. Reading the tea leaves like Maria Ouspenskaya, I foresee hostile Fashion Critics, who float like a butterfly and flutter by. Their harsh words may sting like a bee, but as a Froglander I am largely immune. Immune but lame….

The muted tones reflect the silence of the lambs.

(I’m sure Teresa predicted someone would make that reference. Just doing my bit for Froglandia.)

Loose tea for sagging teats.