Be Excellent To Each Other

This thread is all about frogs, and nothing to do with the fact that I managed to get rid of the address bar on my browser, panic as I couldn't look it up on google (as I couldn't access Google), post, and then instantly do something that bought it back. Oh no.

I hope I didn't wake anyone up.



ribbit.

I nearly bought a completely aquatic frog the other day.

A chicken walks into the library. It goes up to the circulation desk and says: "book, bok, bok, boook".
The librarian hands the chicken a book. It tucks it under his wing and runs out. A while later, the chicken runs back in, throws the first book into the return bin and goes back to the librarian saying: "book, bok, bok, bok, boook". Again the librarian gives it a book, and the chicken runs out. The librarian shakes her head.
Within a few minutes, the chicken is back, returns the book and starts all over again: "boook, book, bok bok boook". The librarian gives him yet a third book, but this time as the chicken is running out the door, she follows it.
The chicken runs down the street, through the park and down to the riverbank. There, sitting on a lily pad is a big, green frog. The chicken holds up the book and shows it to the frog, saying: "Book, bok, bok, boook". The frog blinks, and croaks: "read-it, read-it, read-it".

Fantastic

I actually bought a frog with a pokey-out tongue from the shop in the park the other day It's really cute.

No. I bought a snail with a pokey-out tongue. I am Lady Wrong of Wrongdom today.

Do you mean a frog that doesn't require any dry land in its environment? I didn't know such frogs existed.

Was this in Real Life or Animal Crossing?

I have forgotten which is which. Actually my town will be angry with me as my sister 'borrowed' my disc a few weeks ago and neglected to give it back

I'll take a picture of pokey-tongue frog today. It's super-cute.

When I was young, a friend of mine used to collect frogs (not real ones), she had about 100 of them in her room, cuddly ones, magnetic ones, loads on her window ledge, a whole book shelf devoted to them.

She was obsessed.

Malc

She was looking for a prince, i betchya.

It was a snail a minute ago.

Yep. Could be a toad, actually. They were cute, though, and would apparently not get picked on by the fish.

Also: my mum has just gone to Turkey. She's bringing back some banana tea for you, and possibly banana Turkish delight.

Oh my Oh my oh my



I... don't know what to say but... wow - thanks to you and mummymalabar

Oh, here is pokey-tongue frog snail for your enjoyment:



If you squeeze him he pokes his tongue out, but I can't squeeze him and take the picture because the camera is too heavy to hold with one hand at the moment I will see if I can get an able assistant to help a bit later.

PS: he's cute, isn't he?

When I first started university I bought a poster at the 'Poster Sale!!!' they have every year. I bought the brightest poster I saw as the rooms were painted 'institution magnolia', and that poster happened to be of a bright green tree frog. A few days later someone said that they never had room for one of the posters they had bought and would I like it. Sure, because I had travelled only with what I could fit into one suitcase my room was still rather bare, that would be great. It was of Kermit the frog.

So, perhaps because I didn't actually have any other stuff, the only two 'things' in my room now happened to be of frogs. A couple of people mentioned that I must love frogs, and that all of my stuff had frogs on or was frog themed.

So, come Christmas, I received a frog blanket, a torch which not only had a frog-shaped gobo on it but also a plastic frog which stuck on top for when you wanted to turn it from a torch into a night-light (it also made ribbiting noises if you pressed one of the buttons) a frog-themed mobil, from mug, etc etc etc... So now I truly did have a room full of nothing but frog stuff. I became the girl who was obsessed with frogs, but now that everyone had bought me frogs stuff I didn't want to say that I didn't actually have a particular fondness for frogs, but this imaginary obsession meant that they kept multiplying and the frogs bred like rabbits...

That snail reminds me of a skull I have - you squeeze it and the jellylike substance inside bulges out of the eye sockets. It's bugging me now though as I can't find it - it's not with my other skulls.

Yeah, but she really was frog obsessed.

Malc

It's funny what first impressions can do. I was out for someone's birthday, last year, and I'd just watched Australian rugby league for the first time. I enthused about it a bit, and this girl who I had met on that night was apparently left thinking i was an RL obsessive. She didn't buy me any stuffed rhinos or owt, but yeah. She thought I was all about it.

Also, a fanged frog:

Not so cute, but eeeeh.

Excellent

It's true though, you have to have a "thing" at university. If you don't have a "thing", one will be allocated to you. In this case, your destined thing was liking frogs. Just be glad it wasn't, you know, ironically liking Hello Kitty or something.

Aw, hehe - I always wondered if there was a story behind you avatar

@Throughsilver - 'fanged'?

INTERESTING FORG FACT:
There is only one species of forg that goes "ribbit" and it inhabits California. When Hollywood types required a forg sound for their flims, they went and recorded said forg. And now everyone thinks all forgs go "ribbit".

Yeah. Because that's much worse than ironically fucking badgers.

Source.

I know: they look a bit crummy for fangs. But it is a frog...

Oh - I think I misread that - I thought it said that you had 'fanged' a frog... I thoght you menat that it was a picture of a frog that you had removed fangs from... or something

This is the best frog picture, ever. Because it has David Attenborough in it

I have owned one of these too, it had white plastic bugs bobbing about in the blood.

[edit] Fuxake

As promised, this is Mimi, my African Dwarf Frog. She likes nothing more than standing up, like a little Rory Calhoun, peering through the tank separator into the Betta's house.

OMG SQUEEEEEE!

Haha, new page fail.

Shush, or I'll post from the future again.

Would he be eaten if the divider wasn't there?

I approve this thread.

My imaginary future aquarium now has frogs for a start.

Also Mimi's hat rocks.

Also the ribbit frog is AMAZING. It looks like an old man.

I'd like to think so. But in truth, the divider is only there to protect any young snails. The betta likes to gobble them.

He needs a saddle and a seahorse. And a little stetson. That would be awesome.

In fact, I can't think of anything that would be more awesome.

I recently heard of alligator gars. Big fuck-off fish with heads like alligators.



Want.

I may need a rather large aquarium though.

Yeah, you probably would.

There are plenty of smaller Gars, mind.

Sorry, I don't understand.

Driving a small car has changed you, man.

Doe the smaller ones have heads like a chihuahua?

See if he walks around on 2 legs, does that mean he's a frog man?

THIS IS A FRIGGING FROG FTHREAD! NOT A FISH THREAD!

BTW the smaller Gars with huge ugly teeth are called Alan Garrs.

Or Sher Gar.

The unfunny ones that are shunned by the other Gars are called Jimmy Gars.

Ooh, I didn't see this! It is amphibious Me!

New best frog picture, ever - it really is a fantastic photograph!

Also: Malabar said 'she'. Froggy Mimi is a she unless proven otherwise

Oh go on then.

Yay!

Video of Mimi and her new(ish) friend Kif. Mimi is the one swimming.