# There once was an amphibian named Jeremiah... **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 20, 2019, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869 "2019-02-20T02:30:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [February 22, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/21 "2019-02-22T22:32:51Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Is this factual existence? > Is this merely a product of imagination? > Trapped in a flood of falling stones, without a means of exit. > Uncover your organs of perception, point them at the stratosphere and observe > I am merely a youth of inadequate means > I do not require favorable thoughts > Since I arrive and depart without difficulty, in a slight upwards and downwards direction > In whatever direction the air moves, I do not find this of significance. I do not. > > (I know I should be able to get #2 and #3. But I can’t. Just me??) (#2 was the second verse to Jerimiah was a bullfrog. “If I was the king of the world…and so on”) ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/22 "2019-02-23T00:11:17Z")
The tires of the motor coach spin unceasingly, Spin unceasingly, spin unceasingly. The tires of the motor coach spin unceasingly, Throughout the whole of the city. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/23 "2019-02-23T00:46:27Z")
Paddle, paddle, paddle your dinghy, Peacefully down the brook, Gleefully, gleefully,gleefully,gleefully, Existence is but a sleep story. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/24 "2019-02-23T06:06:07Z")
Embrace me more, danseuse of diminutive size, Tabulate the illuminating apparatuses on the thoroughfare, Repose with me in bedding of cambric, You’ve experienced an active day on this diurnal journey. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/25 "2019-02-26T22:45:32Z")
I have traversed the empty barren sandy land on an innominate _Equus ferus caballus_, It was a positive sensation to avoid water falling in drops condensed from vapor in the atmosphere. (BTW Aspidistra, it’s not just you; I don’t get #3 either–“prismatic buckaroo” sounds like Rhinestone cowboy but the rest of the words don’t fit?) ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/26 "2019-02-26T22:50:13Z")
You may not determine the meaning of my You may not determine the meaning of my Nay, you may not determine the meaning of my Stoic visage ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/27 "2019-02-28T07:24:09Z")
And so all persons have been informed about aves a-a-a-aves, aves is current. And so aves, aves, aves, aves is current. And so aves, aves, aves, aves is current. aves, aves, aves, aves is current. Have you not been informed regarding aves? And so all persons know that aves is current. Aves, aves, aves is current. ---
**Author:** ![Darkon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Darkon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkon)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/28 "2019-02-28T07:50:10Z")
Shall we be intimate on the avenue? Shall we be intimate on the avenue? Shall we be intimate on the avenue? Shall we be intimate on the avenue? None will be about to glimpse our doings, Shall we be intimate on the avenue? ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/29 "2019-02-28T12:17:34Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > (BTW Aspidistra, it’s not just you; I don’t get #3 either–“prismatic buckaroo” sounds like Rhinestone cowboy but the rest of the words don’t fit?) Posts #1, 2, and 3 of this thread are the correspondingly numbered verses in _Joy To The World_. Prismatic buckaroo = rainbow rider ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/30 "2019-02-28T13:49:54Z")
I abandoned my hollow muscular organ that pumps blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation in San Francisco… ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/31 "2019-02-28T14:28:17Z")
… At the apex of a knoll, the town summons me… ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/32 "2019-02-28T15:40:10Z")
…to a location in which the diminutive mass transit rail system cabin hauled by electrically operated hawsers ascends partially towards the constellations… ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/33 "2019-02-28T16:16:06Z")
…the time period following sunrise finds a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth’s surface which restricts visibility and sometimes results in frigid air temperatures, but I am nonetheless heedless… ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/34 "2019-02-28T19:49:29Z")
In a repetitiously circadian cycle atop a promontory in a solitary manner, a dude with a silly smile mimics paralysis. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/35 "2019-02-28T19:57:14Z")
I admire voluminous gluteal protrusions and I am incapable of bearing false witness ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/36 "2019-02-28T21:13:26Z")
Which individual is responsible for granting the canines a point of egress? ---
**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:** [February 28, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/37 "2019-02-28T22:54:21Z")
All of us abide in a golden colored boat that goes underwater… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/38 "2019-03-01T06:49:40Z")
Ooh, my miniscule attractive one, attractive one; Might I enquire when I might expect some hours out of the day from you, Sharona? ---
**Author:** ![Darkon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Darkon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkon)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/39 "2019-03-01T07:12:24Z")
Similar to an ingénue Caressed in a completely novel manner Similar to an ingénue While your inner pulsations are closest ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869/40 "2019-03-02T06:16:06Z")
Is this the bona fide existence? Is this just some sort of dream? Call it a bunch of geology falling from a promontory, No escape from what actually is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-an-amphibian-named-jeremiah/829869.md?page=3)