SkADaMo 2017 post 4
November 16, 2017
Otherwise known as a Ribbit.
HoHoDooDa 2013 Day 12
December 14, 2013
Undaunted by his recent breakup, Murgatroyd continues to troll for love.
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Murgatroyd and myself wish y’all a Merry Kissmas! Also a Happy Egg Snog (for our friends in the UK!)
Ok now, if you can tear yourself away from these groan-worthy puns, come on over here to see what my fellow HoHoDooDa doodlers are doing.
poof!
August 1, 2008
Penelope Kellogg,
married a bull-frog.
hoping he’d become a prince.
When she planted a kiss
on his future highness,
POOF! he turned into a blintz!
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The Illustration Friday theme this week is “Poof!”
As I wondered and wondered what to do for this weeks theme… POOF!… I remembered an old post I could re-purpose!
It’s the first time I ever submitted an Illustration Friday… on a Friday!
wide
May 19, 2008
Ogden paid no heed to his mom as she warned him his mouth would “stay that way” if he kept making goofy faces.
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The Illustration Friday theme this week is “Wide.”
frog in my throat
January 31, 2008
Ahem!
To have a frog in one’s throat is to have a temporary hoarseness caused by phlegm in the back of the throat.
Of all the animal idioms out there, the origin of this one seems pretty obvious. Anyone hoarse with a cold or allergies will typically sound or croak, pretty much like a frog, right? So, duh, that’s a no-brainer. However, with a little digging around I found there is a wee bit more to the story.
According to The Phrase Finder
It used to be thought that if you drank water from a pond that had frogspawn in it, a frog could live and hatch out in your throat, which naturally would block your voice. Quacksalvers (that’s the traditional English equivalent of snake oil merchants) used to have a scam whereby the quack’s stooge used to pretend to be so afflicted; the quack would administer his medicine, lo and behold the stooge would cough up a live frog and “regain his voice”, and all the gullible peasants would buy this wonderful cure. For this reason, an obstruction in the throat is known as a “frog”.
Interesting story, if not exactly full of detailed information, like: What period in time did all this take place?
So with a little more digging I found this:
quack·sal·ver [ kwák sàlvər ] (plural quack·sal·vers) noun
Definition: quack: somebody who falsely claims to have medical or other skills or qualifications ( archaic )[Late 16th century. < obsolete Dutch, “salve-hawker” < Dutch kwaken “quack, prattle” + zalf “salve”]
So, there you go.
A term likely originated by quacks in an effort to sell snake oil in the late 16th century.
Sound familiar?
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to make myself a nice hot spot o’ tea. I seem to have an amphibian lodged in my esophagus.
sketched out 