De sez ~ "Say some prayers for Mz ribit too. Ribs won't be able to fulfill his marital obligations to her for two months. One could hardly blame her for running off with the milkman during that long period of recuperation."
My understanding is that da queen is far more concerned about the pressure she'll be under once the frog king recovers, rather than the ... uh ... "lack of marital bliss" during his recovery period. Apparently, as part of the surgical procedure, ribit is having this pump installed ...
... Rated at 330 gallons per minute, she's afraid it will turn him into an amphibian, industrial-grade power washer.
I was afraid of this. All of his efforts to try to keep up with Stacey is gonna do nothing but cause BIG problems, don'tcha know!
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence