# Frogs like Children of The Hydra **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 5, 2018, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630 "2018-05-05T06:51:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/1 "2018-05-05T06:51:07Z")
Some of you may know, but I live on an alkali flat, in somewhat the middle of nowhere. Very little grows here. The water is half poison. Yet, after some rains, and strange weather, we get FROGS! Might be cold as shit and snowing, but you’ll hear frogs singing, or whatever you call it they do. Well, no stranger to frogs, I’m not impressed. Sure, they materialize out of the dry lake bed after years of dormancy, or, I don’t know. Whatever the frogs do. I hear them croaking now and then. Often when you would least expect. It’s kind like that Sinbad movie, where the guy casts Teeth of the Hydra, and shit just comes out of the ground, ready to **Fuck You Up**. I’ve been drinkin’ tonight (big surprise! _) and got up to take a piss, and come back to the sofa to imbibe more of The Dope (and Beer), when I look down,_ AND THERE HE IS! \* I left the sliding glass door open, and this little guy must have got under the screen, and got into the house! **Mr. Frog** , right there in person! Tryin’ to get under my couch! Managed to corral him and grab him up and put him out on the front lawn, but WHAT THE FUCK? _Frogs_, In the _Desert,_ In My \*House? \* I either drink too much, or far too little. \*Any post after 5pm is subject to Intoxitudeous ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/2 "2018-05-05T07:14:40Z")
Didn’t you need a new pet? You could’ve kept him and named, oh I don’t know, ‘Frogger’, the killers may have et him, though. I really, really hate frogs, if I recall. I remember one down the back of my top in jr. high. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/3 "2018-05-05T07:44:38Z")
> [@Snowboarder Bo](#): > > The desert is harsh, what with no snow, and cowboys are drawn to the sight of a frog, sitting alone in the desert sun. “What’s wrong with this frog,” one wonders, “why isn’t he snowboarding?” The others shook their heads, and stared, unable to answer. [1000 Cowboys Stare At A Frog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tifDpW4Htfs) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/4 "2018-05-05T12:11:40Z")
Do the children of the Hydra like frogs, or are the frogs’s affections unrequited? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/5 "2018-05-05T12:21:58Z")
Am I the only one who opened this expecting it to be a **Scylla** thread? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/6 "2018-05-05T12:29:58Z")
The frog wasn’t singing ‘Hello, My Baby’ by any chance, was it? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/7 "2018-05-05T14:17:46Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > The frog wasn’t singing ‘Hello, My Baby’ by any chance, was it? Hey, who was playing the accompaniment for that amphibian? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/8 "2018-05-05T14:47:44Z")
In Upper Michigan doing the DNR surveys, you always have to trudge through the snow to record the Wood Frogs in the early spring. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/9 "2018-05-05T16:47:50Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [1000 Cowboys Stare At A Frog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tifDpW4Htfs) Pretty neat song. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/10 "2018-05-05T17:19:12Z")
I need to see a photo of your new pet. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/11 "2018-05-05T20:10:44Z")
No pictures of Mr. Frog. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/12 "2018-05-05T21:22:53Z")
Wasn’t it _Jason And The Argonauts_ that had the hydra teeth seeding scene? The emergents did indeed fuck people up. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/13 "2018-05-05T22:22:53Z")
I was drinking last night… ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frogs-like-children-of-the-hydra/813630/14 "2018-05-05T22:30:32Z")
I was expecting…well, kind of hoping…for a link to a study showing frogs rocking out and ribbeting along to some Death Metal group called “Children of the Hydra”. Because that would have been awesome. Throw up some horns for Michigan J.