ATTENTION, STEPHEN KING

As this blog understands the metric system, this thing weighed, like, 14,000 pounds.

Comments

[Steve]

Was it just me, or did they show a picture of Edgar in that article...?

[Sarah J]

FrogWatch NT might BAGNFARB

[random thunking]

CBD? Isn't that the chord progression for The Wait?

[random thunking]

Did I just italicize the blog?

[random thunking]

out, damn italics, out

[O. the U(manity)]

It's female?

Wowser!

That toad is one big Mother ... merely sayin' ...

[Annie Where-but-here]

What- no photo?! That's toadally uncool! Somebody should have hopped to it with a picture. Otherwise, it just doesn't fly. And that bugs me enough that if I had a copy of this newspaper, I'd ribbet up.

They thought it may have hitchhiked? Is that a common concern down under? No Mr.Toad's Wild Rides?

Anyone else concerned about them approaching Darwin? Hasn't he been dead for quite some time?

[daisymae]

Me, too, Annie, this is definitely an occasion that calls for pictures.

[Kathy P.]

6.61 inches, 1.24 pounds - can we do better with regular toads?

[tropichunt.com guy™]

"FrogWatch NT"...?!?

Is Microsoft aware of the potential trademark issues?!?

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

Darwinian Toad might BAGNFA children’s book character.

[Darla]

It's worse than that! This toad is toxic to anyone, especially people who lick them! Save yourselves! Get out of Austrailia! (You'll have to cut and paste the link as I have no idea how to make it look blue like everyone else.)

http://www.fdrproject.org/pages/toads.htm

Now if you'll excuse me I have to go back to picking out books for this week's storytime. I'm thinking of reading a book called "Tractor" by Craig McFarland Brown. The book opens thusly: "The farmer drives the tractor. The tractor tows the manure spreader." Humm

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

Hey--wasn't there one of these in Big Touble?

If Stephen King were to write about them, he might call them the "Toadaliers".

[Reine le Guin]

Darla - I recommend an out-of-print story called "Little Red Newt," in keeping with the Blog's amphibian theme today, or perhaps "The Salamander Room."

[Ann]

AWBH, I was wondering about the hitchhiking thing too. I knew they can be - unusual - down under but those folks seemed a toad short of a full lilypad if you know what I mean.

But it begs the question: who would pick up a hitchhiking toad? How would a person even recognize that a toad was trying to hitchhike?

Maybe I'm spending too much time thinking about this.

[Ann]

P.S. I hope you don't think I'm being too forward, but...

Nice puns.

[herb]

Snork@Annie

*chokes on diet soda with benzene*

Could've been a horny toad possibly in heat . .
Strutin' down the highway - off her usual beat

[sharon share-alike]

The toad will not be turned in to fertiliser but will become FrogWatch NT's mascot.

When I first read this, I didn't catch the "not," and thought it was really strange that FrogWatch wanted to use fertilizer as its mascot.

Which means...
"We'll take her on trips to shows and schools," he said....

Ewwww.

And *SNORK* @ Annie!

[Pirateboy]

With a toad that size, it could lick any of us!

[Meanie the Blue]

"Mr Sawyer said despite the toad's size and its closeness to Darwin, the Territory was winning the war on toads."

Great. Mission accomplished!

[daisymae]

How big IS the toad? I couldn't tell from the post and Dave's joking.

[slyeyes]

TOADS GOT THUMBS!!!!!!!!!!

[nannie]

What do you put toad fertilizer ON?

[Steve]

Daisymae.... Edgar sized.

[marfie]

Monster Female Toad: WBAGNFARB

[MoFaux]

Thank God The Neightborhood Frog Watch Program is still in existence

[Sondra]

slyeyes,

Are you perchance a BC fan?

(Clams got legs!)

[Pirateboy]

Some dinner music:

At the Hop

Froggy Went A Courtin'

Croak Gets in Your Eyes

Jump (For Your Love)

Adam Raised a Cain (Toad)

Of course all these songs would have to be re-recorded by Toad The Wet Sprocket.

Least, but not last, check out the cult movie: Frog-g-g
Tagline: Can one hot EPA agent bring down one horny toad?

[O. the U(manity)]

Sondra -

Do you remember Clams got scruples! ... ?

(It wuz sort of a setup, but the gag wuz still funny, makin' use of the catchphrase ... merely smilin' ...)

[Pirateboy]

Once there was a chicken that went into a library and said: "Book Book!" and then the nice librarian gave the chicken a book.

A few days later, the chicken returned again, hopped up on the counter and said: "Book Book!" and then the librarian gave the chicken another book.

Two days later, the chicken returned AGAIN. The librarian thought "After I give this chicken this book, Dave Barry's Money Secrets, I'm going to follow him, and try to find out where he's going with it."

And the librarian did just that.

She followed the chicken down the road, through a pasture, and finally into the swamp. She watched in amazement as the chicken tried to give Dave's book to a frog, but the the frog kept repeating "Red-it Red-it"!

[Betsy]

*snork* @ everybody:)

...and it just makes sense to see that she goes to school. Large educated toads are the future of New Zealand.

[fudtheman]

daisy - Kathy P. posted it #9, and here it is again:
6.61 inches, 1.24 pounds

[AlanBoss]

I used to be a BC fan. Back when it was funny. "___ got ____!" is still funny.

[daisymae]

Snork @ Pirateboy

[insomniac]

for Darwinian toads, it must be survival of the fattest...

[Kid Charlemagne]

I wondered where those distant "ribbits" I kept hearing were coming from.

[Pirateboy]

Hey Kid Charlemagne: I heard that Katy lied, but last I heard, she was somewhere in Aja, listening to Chinese music under the Banyon trees, and waiting for Josie to come home.

[Sondra]

O. the U(manity)

Love the new handle.

Nope, don't remember ...scruples!

[Annie Where-but-here]

Finally found a picture -it's big, toady, and British - caine toad

[adfa]

Thanks for sharing your opinion!

[Punkin Poo]

It was so big it had to be toad away.
(Ok, I'll work on my puns)

Do you use toad fertilizer to impregnate other toads? (Sorry if I'm getting too personal for some of you. You know who you are)

[Meanie the Blue]

Not sure who I am, Punkin. No one ever toad me.

[Betsy]

Bad early morning pun for biology majors:

They're training giant toads to assist in locating weak places in New Orleans levees. They're called FEMAtoads.

[Pirateboy]

I didn't know that the band 3 Dog Night were into these types of frogs in the late 60's. But the song Momma toad me not to come makes more sense this way.

[Betsy]

PB...Well, MY momma toad me, "You better hop around"! :)

[Pirateboy]

If the frog were female, I'd call her Rosie. Rosie the ribbiter.

Now playing: Ribbit deep, mountain high.

[MIkey]

Dave, To clarify your metric conversions to the othr readers.

In the avoirdupois system, all units are multiples or fractions of the pound, which is now defined as 0.45359237 kg

Therefore, if you take the 568 grams and move the decimal point over to the left three spaces then mulitply your SAT score and divide by the weight of Rosie O'Donell you will get about 14,0000 pounds.

Glad I could help.

[daisymae]

Snork @ Betsy...that's what I was going to say (except I was gonna say, "Ya better flop around."

(snorking quietly at self)

[queensbee]

snork @ you all, esp pirateboy. croak gets in your eyes, bwaaahaa.

twas brillig, and the slithy toads..... is this one of them?

[Betsy]

I feel like maybe we're one toad over the line...

[Betsy]

Slightly off topic: I went to look up "nematodes" to see just how obscure that pun was. (Nematodes are microscopic parasitic worms that exist in all living organisms.) So the first hit was a 1914 quote from a biologist who clearly would be on this blog, were he still among us. The way he chose to express the prevalence of nematodes was:
" If all the matter in the universe except the nematodes were swept away, our world would still be dimly recognizable..."
Of course, it would be composed of 100% microscopic worms, but hey! You'd still recognize your mother, your dog, and your piano...

[Olo Baggins of Bywater]

Betsy, I recall once buying something called "beneficial nematodes" for my garden. They supposedly infected other less fortunate and less beneficial critters. For all I know I bought a can of talc for $15.

[Betsy]

Olo...Well, first, of course, as AGNFARB, "Beneficial Nematodes" is right up there. And now that you tell me they look like talc, I'll never use any kind of bath/baby/body powder again. EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

[PirateBoy]

Nemotoad Talc! We could have Mel Torme singing in the background for the commercial. After all, wasn't he called 'the velvet frog'?

I'd better get to work. I'm swamped here. Things are kneedeep, kneedeep.

[Dr. Doug]

14,000 lbs!! Wrong, metric-breath.

[Annie Where-but-here]

*sigh!* at pirateboy

[Kid Charlemagne]

"Not just knee deep, it was totally deep, when she did the freak with me..."

bow-wow-wow-yippy-yo-yippy-yay, KC

P. S. Pirateboy: Arrr, matey! I be figgerin' yer Pretzel Logic! Have ye finally found yer Home At Last? I must be goin' back to buccaneerin' now, though I'm a fool to do yer Dirty Work, I be off to Do It Again! Arrr!---Red Roger Kidd

[BS]

sorry just testing

Visit Dave's Site!

[I'm Betty Lou]

I'm quite certain the toad was waylaid on his way to the "Lost" set. Season One scared us with a polar bear on a tropical island. This year, Mr. Echo scared the bejeebers out of us. Season Three is going to be an amphibian frightfest! Or would that be reptilian?