# If I lost my frog **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713 "2005-01-14T14:50:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/1 "2005-01-14T14:50:32Z")
[him name is hopkin green frog](http://lostfrog.org/) I loved it. Personally, I think it’s funnier than “all your base.” Poor kid lost his McDonald’s promo toy and put up a flyer for it. Let me say now, that the young man’s condition is not at issue here and I don’t mean to make light of it. But his flyer exploded in the same way that “AYBABTU” did, and… damn. [Here’s the backstory.](http://mike.whybark.com/archives/001951.html) (or am I just late to the party on this?) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/2 "2005-01-14T14:53:33Z")
Ooooops. Mods, please change thread title to “if I looking for frog.” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/3 "2005-01-14T14:54:13Z")
Maybe if all the images were put into a flash movie with “It’s not easy being green” as background music it would be good. I once saw a book that was just a collection of lost pet flyers. Some were funny and some were quite sad. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/4 "2005-01-14T15:26:33Z")
All in all, I am simply unable to get past the sad, sad backstory. Sorry. Not in any way to criticize the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/5 "2005-01-22T13:23:47Z")
I have that frog! Well, not **the** frog, but **a** frog from the same promotion. Apart from that, I’m not sure what’s sad or funny about this. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/6 "2005-01-22T16:14:06Z")
I wouldn’t put this and AYBABTU in the same category, though. The latter persists because it lets North Americans chuckle at the goofiness of the Japanese (in sharp contrast to the Masters-of-the-Universe image which had suggested that by the late nineties they’d be running every corporation in the U.S. with their inscrutable robotlike efficiency) whereas the back story behind “lost frog” is just… sad. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/7 "2005-01-22T23:28:54Z")
According to a site linked to in the comments of the site that explains the backstory, Terry’s family is aware of the site (I’m not sure what their opinion is). The person who discovered the frog poster in Seattle called Terry to apologize for making it a Web phenomenon, and Terry has a new frog. I don’t think the pictures (which are pretty darn funny) are making fun of the kid and his condition (in fact, no one knew the origin of the poster until it was researched), but, like “All your base…” just taking a funny and unusual phrase and putting it in unexpected places for comic results. And it also seems that they unintentionally tell a story about the entire world searching for a frog that’s name am hopkin green frog. I think this might be the next SDMB cliche. P.S. Who took my frog? I’ll find my frog. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/8 "2005-01-22T23:45:01Z")
And even though I’ve never read _Lolita_, I find [this one](http://lostfrog.org/28.html) pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/9 "2005-01-23T02:20:02Z")
If you lose your frog, check [Reese Witherspoon’s cleavage](http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/22222004.htm). ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/10 "2005-01-23T03:11:17Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > If you lose your frog, check [Reese Witherspoon’s cleavage](http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/22222004.htm). if I looking for celebrity her name is Reese witherspoon celebrity I lost my celebrity I got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/11 "2005-01-23T05:35:02Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > if I looking for celebrity > her name is Reese witherspoon celebrity > I lost my celebrity > > I got nothin’. Wait a minute, she was little girl child actress just a while ago, and now she’s’s got cleavage? That’s just wrong … well not really… but you don’t want to go fishing around in a little\_girl\_now\_ grown\_up\_ with\_ boobies\_ cleavage cause that would be …well… confusing, and potentially jail inducing. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-lost-my-frog/284713/12 "2005-01-23T06:18:09Z")
She’s almost 27 years old, astro. She’s well past the point where pawing at her cleavage is OK as long as she consents.