# Wikipedia's featured article - that is NOT a frog! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 10, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398 "2006-01-10T23:06:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/1 "2006-01-10T23:06:11Z")
[Frog in question.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%27s_tree_frog) I’m not fooled. Look at the pictures!; clearly, it’s a lawn ornament! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/2 "2006-01-10T23:44:49Z")
You’re not serious, are you? Admittedly, they don’t look _real_, but they [do actually look like that](http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=white's%20tree%20frog&sa=N&tab=wi). ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/3 "2006-01-10T23:53:36Z")
No, i’m not serious. But this has to be the most fake looking real animal ever. Pretty much all those pictures look fake, too - look at the eighth one! I think we’ve found where the frogs in the beer advert idea came from. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/4 "2006-01-11T00:22:00Z")
People are bound to think it’s some sort of mock frog. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/5 "2006-01-11T00:27:43Z")
Mock frog? MOCK FROG? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/6 "2006-01-11T00:46:56Z")
_Cleary_ a photoshopped image and not a very good one either! Look where the pixels… What?! Ow! Ow! Stop with the hitting! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/7 "2006-01-11T00:55:41Z")
[Here’s another one](http://markmlucas.com/images/amphibians/web%20tree%20frog/white's%209.jpg). It’s quite an interesting looking animal ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/8 "2006-01-11T01:03:00Z")
It’s adorable! And it’s skin secretions may have antibacterial and antiviral properties … I don’t suppose people will want to rub a frog all over their bodies? Well, most people. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/9 "2006-01-11T01:05:35Z")
Well, I know one thing for sure. _Ceci n’est pas une pipe._ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/10 "2006-01-11T01:19:24Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Mock frog? MOCK FROG? Is Mock Frog soup anything like Mock Turtle Soup? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/11 "2006-01-11T01:22:58Z")
Check these guys out: are they tomatoes? are they frogs? They’re… [Tomato Frogs!](http://www.critterzone.com/gallery/imagesource/SPEC102009.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/12 "2006-01-11T01:27:38Z")
You can make soup out of them, but it tastes like chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/13 "2006-01-11T01:28:00Z")
Yes, the ol’ green tree frog is a cute little jumper. We have a small population living in our back yard and just the other day, while doing my pre-flight walk around, I found one doing its best imitation of a wheel chock. I scooped him up and placed him out of harms way. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/14 "2006-01-11T02:41:37Z")
Mock frog? Of course not! Our “Crunchy Frog” is made with only real frogs, thankyou very much. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/15 "2006-01-11T03:10:44Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Mock frog? Of course not! Our “Crunchy Frog” is made with only real frogs, thankyou very much. The finest _ **baby** _ frogs, I trust! 😃 Hmmm, wouldn’t they be tapoles or polliwogs, then? ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/16 "2006-01-11T03:44:12Z")
The photographs don’t do them justice: the real ones look _much_ faker than that. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/17 "2006-01-11T04:22:43Z")
Well, [these grasshoppers](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3867/1167/1600/Lubber.jpg) look pretty fake in person. We get them around here in the summer and they’re a good 4 or 5 inches long. In person they look like they’re hand-painted, carved wooden toy grasshoppers. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/18 "2006-01-11T04:47:09Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Mock frog? Of course not! Our “Crunchy Frog” is made with only real frogs, thankyou very much. Just watch out for the Spring Surprise. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/19 "2006-01-11T06:29:51Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Here’s another one](http://markmlucas.com/images/amphibians/web%20tree%20frog/white's%209.jpg). It’s quite an interesting looking animal :eek: That’s NOT a frog. That’s Yoda. The day he went into rehab. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398/20 "2006-01-11T06:38:02Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > :eek: That’s NOT a frog. That’s Yoda. The day he went into rehab. “A dimebag you will score me!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-featured-article-that-is-not-a-frog/339398.md?page=2)