# Fun With Frogs! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278 "2003-04-17T11:44:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/21 "2003-04-18T11:32:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exgineer \* > \*\*I’ve been sitting here all day trying to compose a worthwhile response to this. > > Ideally, such a response would include references to amphibious assaults, Poison Arrow Frogs, and high-velocity armor-piercing freedom toads. It possibly should also to include a discussion of the comparative intelligence of amphibians and this dumb kid. > > Unfortunately, I’ve got nothing. \*\* Something like this? It doesn’t matter if the kid seems dumb, he obviously isn’t. Even if he’d ducked the at the first shot the Poison Arrow Frogs would have landed in an amphibious assault (or would that be amphibian?) and launched high-velocity armor piercing freedom toads at his face. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/22 "2003-04-18T11:50:56Z")
> [@](#): > > high-velocity armor-piercing freedom toads Must be Og’s ranged weapon of choice. Zues tosses lightning bolts, but not Og … ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/23 "2003-04-18T13:08:21Z")
Here we have yet another example of why I dispute **welby** ’s contention that I am funnier than he is. I guess this means my patent for the semi-automatic riot control frog launcher isn’t going to pass review. Back to experimenting with cats. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/24 "2003-04-18T14:14:39Z")
I am personally working on a centrifugal-force-powered flying squirrel launcher. If the Punkin Chunkers can launch a pumpkin a third of a mile, I figure once the squirrel unfolds itself I can probably get at least a half-mile worth of angry, sharp-toothed artillery. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/25 "2003-04-18T14:38:43Z")
Au Contraire, **Exgineer**. I just took your funny stuff and put it into a sentence. The idea was all yours. Maybe use a cat as the carrier and attach a bunch of explsive frogs? Our own JSOW. Though since it’s called a SOW maybe we should start testing the aerodynamic qualities of piglets. . . ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/26 "2003-04-18T15:09:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exgineer \* > **I’ve been sitting here all day trying to compose a worthwhile response to this…amphibious assaults** BWAAAHHAAAAA You had it right there. Very good. Thanks for the laugh. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/27 "2003-04-18T15:42:52Z")
So, what happened to the frog? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/28 "2003-04-18T15:54:41Z")
It’s feeling a tad jumpy. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/29 "2003-04-18T16:57:09Z")
I can understand that, what with the iced tea and all. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/30 "2003-04-21T12:16:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Finagle \* > \*\*I dunno – I feel really bad for this guy. You have to look at some of the “dumbest thing I ever did” threads on the SDMB to see that even very bright people do some amazingly dumb stuff, even if it’s for only 10 seconds in a long lifetime. This guy just picked the wrong 10 seconds to be an idiot. \*\* Agreed. And I’m wondering if he really **stuck** his face in front of the gun, or just happened to be directly in the line of fire. From the linked article: > [@](#): > > Berry and some friends were fishing at Hickory Creek in Copper Canyon about 1 a.m. Sunday when they saw three other teen-agers with the potato gun, said Kevin Patton, a Denton County sheriff’s spokesman. > > “They were shooting potatoes, then one of them got the idea to shoot frogs out of it,” Patton said. > > The gun, which the teens bought on the Internet, began to misfire. > > “Daniel Berry walked over to see if he could help,” Patton said. “Curiosity got to him, I guess. The frog hit him square in the face. He suffered several facial fractures.” So it sounds like he didn’t take part in the decision to shoot anything out of the gun, frog or otherwise, but rather ambled over to offer assistance, and the gun went off when no one was expecting it to. That doesn’t necessarily indicate stupidity. One Fourth of July, I stuck my head out a window to watch the fireworks display over the Cuyahoga, not realizing that my sister’s neighbors were setting off bottle rockets almost directly beneath me. If they hadn’t called out a warning, I might have ended up like Berry, and that wouldn’t have been my fault, either. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/31 "2003-04-21T12:26:28Z")
[http://www.spudtech.com/](http://www.spudtech.com/) > [@](#): > > Daniel’s mother said her son had broken bones in his face and would require surgery. He told her he didn’t think there was a frog in the gun > and looked to try to see it. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/32 "2003-04-22T20:07:12Z")
That would make a great sig. “he didn’t think there was a frog in the gun and looked to try to see it.” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/33 "2003-04-22T20:18:47Z")
“Joel Suprise sells potato guns full-time at an Internet Web site from Wisconsin. There is no such thing as a delayed ignition, he said. ‘There is no possible way for a combustion-based spud gun to just go off,’ Mr. Suprise said.” —Mr. Surprise, indeedy! ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278/34 "2003-04-22T20:23:22Z")
> [@](#): > > A potato gun is a device with a tube such as plastic water pipe, a combustion chamber and an igniter. Projectiles such as potatoes can be loaded into the tube and fired several hundred feet when a propellant such as hairspray is ignited in the chamber. A TOY??? How the hell can ANYONE consider that a toy? But then again thats the type of toys I used to play with when I was a youngin. And dynamite…and homemade explosives…and homemade fireworks…Now that I think of it, its a miracle I’m still alive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-frogs/169278.md?page=1)