# There's A Frog In My Bidet! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001 "2001-10-17T16:02:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/1 "2001-10-17T16:02:17Z")
According to [this](http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~mongoose/french/phrases.html) site, the proper French for this phrase is: “J’ai une grenouille dans mon bidet!” (zhay en gre - noo - ee dan mon bee - day) Just thought I’d share this site with anybody else who might need some handy French phrases. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/2 "2001-10-17T16:14:44Z")
Shhh! or everyone will want one! ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/3 "2001-10-17T16:23:01Z")
Personalized of course. ---
**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/4 "2001-10-17T16:27:43Z")
I think this phrase may be particularly usefull around here: “Le réalité et toi, vous ne vous entendez pas, n’est-ce pas?” (le ree - al - ee - tay eh twa voo ne voo zen - ten - day pah nes pah)" But I wonder why they don’t have that terribly useful travel phrase: “My hovercraft is full of eels.” ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/5 "2001-10-17T16:32:41Z")
Hey \*\* Crunchy \*\* !!! I TOLD you that isn’t a water fountain! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/6 "2001-10-17T17:51:54Z")
**ChiefScott** , I think you’re confusing me with **Matt\_McL**. My knowledge of French is pretty much limited to finding funny sites by accident and laughing at them (“Mon Dieu, que vos enfants sont laids” (Mon dyer ke voe zen - fant son lay) Actually, I might learn that one and use it when people show me their kiddie pictures. Tell them that it means their children are surpassingly beautiful or something. ( **Crunchy?** Is that you in there?) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/7 "2001-10-17T19:54:27Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s A Frog In My Bidet! I really thought that this was going to be some sort of euphemism. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/8 "2001-10-17T20:08:20Z")
Those damn Frenchmen, they turn up everywhere. Don’t look now, but there are probably snails in your toilet tank as well. You seldom have one without the other. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/9 "2001-10-18T11:20:58Z")
zhoo voo dray la clay pour la douch sil vous plait ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/10 "2001-10-19T04:19:09Z")
I just want to state for the record, I was no where _near_ **featherlou’s** bidet. I deny that whole=heartedly, unabashedly and with every fiber of my being. . . . . . Huh? What? Oh, _that’s_ what a bidet is? Oh yeah, I was in that then. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/11 "2001-10-19T04:52:19Z")
And now for something completely different (and yet somehow related): there is an instruction book in English as a second language that is used in Europe still, I believe. One of the first sentences students have to memorize is: “My tailor is rich”. That can be very useful in the vast reaches of the English-speaking world. ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-frog-in-my-bidet/88001/12 "2001-10-22T17:55:30Z")
Opened this thread wondering if this could be true. First thought= Where does the poster live that s/he has a bidet? Second thought= Isn’t this how Reese’s peanut butter cups got started? Standoff. “You’ve got your frog in MY bidet!” “You’ve got your bidet in MY frog!” Hmmmm… “Introducing the bidet frog; fun pet for the whole family!”