They're great, ain't they?
All green, and hoppy and bulgy-eyed, and stuff. And occasionally brown.
Or even red and black, or yellow. And all that croaking, and the mad sex
in the ponds in spring and the spawn and the polliwogs [that's tadpoles].
And the Scots call them 'paddocks'. But you can't keep a horse in one,
unless it's a very very small one.
All except that Kermit. He's an arse.
Toads are nice too. And you can get stoned on them.
Frogs
Re: Frogs
magoo wrote:
> Your going to make Mart very cross with posts like that. He is
> tired of pointless posts.
There IS a point to it- it's to point out how nice frogs are. And anurans in
general.
> He's pining for Dibble you see...sitting there in NZ with not
> a Thatcherite in sight to argue with.
Can't he argue with the Maoris, or something? He could bang on about
how the Treaty of Waitangi led to the Second World War and smallpox
and a run on the price of cheese in Belgium.
> Your going to make Mart very cross with posts like that. He is
> tired of pointless posts.
There IS a point to it- it's to point out how nice frogs are. And anurans in
general.
> He's pining for Dibble you see...sitting there in NZ with not
> a Thatcherite in sight to argue with.
Can't he argue with the Maoris, or something? He could bang on about
how the Treaty of Waitangi led to the Second World War and smallpox
and a run on the price of cheese in Belgium.
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
signification...."