# Hurrah for frogs! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 16, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427 "2005-10-16T02:17:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427/1 "2005-10-16T02:17:17Z")
This long dreary week of overcast, drizzle, rain – rinse and repeat – has been coaxing frogs out of their autumn somnolence into a final frenzy of road-crossing hopping. One of my usual routes traverses a woodsy winding back road where the assorted amphibians were out in force the other evening. As I drove along in the drizzly dusk they kept flinging themselves toward annihilation under my tires. Now, frogs aren’t exactly critters I’d like to cuddle, but I take no pleasure in squashing them. Indeed, I try to avoid them whenever possible. I found myself slowing to a crawl, from the posted 30 MPH to under 20, so that when the headlights picked up hopping bodies I could slow or swerve with some hope of not nailing them. Which turned out to be a Good Thing when I crept around a sharp corner and saw the hulking shattered tree limb that the winds had ripped down into my side of the road. At the posted speed I’d have had no time to swerve to the left and avoid smashing huge chunks of dead tree into my tires and undercarriage. So let me offer this small token of appreciation to my amphibian benefactors. May your vernal pool long survive! ---
**Author:** ![Kermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@Kermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kermit)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427/2 "2005-10-16T02:35:37Z")
I thank you. ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427/3 "2005-10-16T02:47:10Z")
Welcome to the club! I’m a giant fan of frogs, [see](http://www.myspace.com/klaude). My wife laughs at me when I drive slow in our neighborhood to avoid squishing my little buddies, and I very careful when mowing the lawn as not to run over them. There’s one that lives in our pond that I see almost every day during the spring and summer, I’ve named him Klaude after my [EverQuest character](http://home.kendra.com/gumby/images/Klaude2.jpeg). ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427/4 "2005-10-16T02:52:54Z")
I really like frogs. They’re so cute. Even their name. Frogs. Soooo cute! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427/5 "2005-10-16T03:46:50Z")
> [@Kermit](#): > > I thank you. How felicitous that I posted this on the very day you became a Guest! Welcome to the board, **Kermit** , and may you have many more than five posts and become helplessly addicted to this place, to the point of paying up and becoming a Member. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@Kermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kermit)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427/6 "2005-10-16T03:58:38Z")
I am also a frog lover. I have two argentinian horned frogs. One is Digger and the other is…Kermit 🙂 Thank you for the welcome **eddyteddyfreddy**. Its too late for me. I’ve been addicted to straightdope for a few years now. I dont know what made me finally post. Well I guess I just had to share my tmi story. (sorry dont know how to link yet) My bug-eyes friends thank you for trying to not squish them. Kermit (cant express my unbridled glee at getting that name) ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427/7 "2005-10-16T04:18:26Z")
> [@Kermit](#): > > (sorry dont know how to link yet) For a thread, highlight and copy the URL, then type [url= then paste in the URL followed by a close bracket, then whatever words you want to use to describe your link, then [ /url] – but with no spaces. If you do it right, the link to the thread [will look like this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6688658#post6688658) This is how it will look as you compose it, except that there won’t be any spaces: [url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6688658#post6688658]the link[/url] To link to a specific post in a thread, right-click on the post number in the upper right corner and click on “Copy link location.” Then follow the steps outlined above and you’ll have a [link to the specific post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6689392&postcount=11) ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427/8 "2005-10-16T04:47:11Z")
Yay, frogs! > [@Mitch Hedberg](#): > > You never say “here comes that frog” in a horrifying manner. It’s always optimistic. “Hey, here comes that frog, _all right_.” Maybe he will settle near me so I can pet him, and put him in a mayonnaise jar, with a stick and a leaf, to recreate what he’s used to. And I’m pretty sure I’d have to punch some holes in the lid, because he’s damn sure used to air. Then I can observe him, and he won’t be doing much in his 16-ounce world. ---
**Author:** ![Habanero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d9b06d/32.png) [@Habanero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habanero)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427/9 "2005-10-16T05:59:43Z")
How can anyone not love a frog? \<3 to the amphibians ---
**Author:** ![Kermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@Kermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kermit)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427/10 "2005-10-16T07:20:39Z")
> [@Habanero](#): > > How can anyone not love a frog? > > \<3 to the amphibians Its not easy being green. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrah-for-frogs/326427/11 "2005-10-16T14:38:19Z")
> [@Habanero](#): > > How can anyone not love a frog? > > \<3 to the amphibians ::raising hand:: I’m terrified, to the point of incoherency, of frogs. It’s a source of great amusement at work.