# Una!  Boiling Frogs!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-boiling-frogs/617591>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [April 2, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-boiling-frogs/617591 "2012-04-02T16:35:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-boiling-frogs/617591/21 "2012-04-06T21:38:58Z")

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The Led Zeppelin references are hilarious.

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**Author:** ![Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-boiling-frogs/617591/22 "2012-04-09T18:36:23Z")

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You wanna know what happens when you put a frog (actually it was a toad) in hot water? I’ll tell you what happens. Its body swells, its tounge protrudes from the mouth, the eyes roll back in their sockets scaring the shit out of the 5 year old boy who thought he had turned on the cold tap! I screamed so loud the neighbors heard me. Thanks to a fast acting Mom the toad recoverd and was last seen hopping back into the shadows.

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**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-boiling-frogs/617591/23 "2012-04-11T06:20:33Z")

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> [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](#):
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> You wanna know what happens when you put a frog (actually it was a toad) in hot water? I’ll tell you what happens. Its body swells, its tounge protrudes from the mouth, the eyes roll back in their sockets scaring the shit out of the 5 year old boy who thought he had turned on the cold tap! I screamed so loud the neighbors heard me. Thanks to a fast acting Mom the toad recoverd and was last seen hopping back into the shadows.

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! \<snort, sputter, cough, wheeze\> 😃

Hilarious ‘mental image’ of that scene. I just hope you weren’t permanently ‘scarred’. (mentally, that is) 😉

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**Author:** ![Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-boiling-frogs/617591/24 "2012-04-11T23:20:15Z")

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Thanks for the laugh **JBDivmstr**.

I would’ve had a different view of that childhood memory if I had killed the poor thing but since Mom saved the day, looking back, the family laughs about it now.

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**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-boiling-frogs/617591/25 "2012-04-14T05:49:22Z")

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Glad you liked the Zeppelin, **Una**.

Btw, don’t you think this question ‘boils down’ to a re-write of Zeno’s Paradox?

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