I have amassed over 100 frog pictures and am saving them for winter when we need something to look forward to, so Find Mr. Frog will resume in a month or so.
This is a full service blog.
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I have amassed over 100 frog pictures and am saving them for winter when we need something to look forward to, so Find Mr. Frog will resume in a month or so.
This is a full service blog.
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Baud
Call me when you have over 100 frogs.
trollhattan
Ribbit [frog for “secundo”]
Immanentize
You will make the long winter months slightly less dreary. Thank you.
misterpuff
Froggy Went A-Courting…
And Cole leaves us wanting more.
Betty
Something to look forward to. ?
BGinCHI
“amassed”
scav
A Strategic Accumulated Frog Emergency Reserve! I feel safer already.
eclare
Yay! Looking forward to it.
Old School
Are you expecting a long winter this year?
ant
Dude!
You are weird
Anonymous At Work
So long as it isn’t a picture of your deep fryer, since you wouldn’t have enough to share with everyone.
Craigie
So now we are looking forward to winter?
SFBayAreaGal
@scav: ISWYDT. I saw what you did there.
SFBayAreaGal
I am looking forward to this full service blog.
Ribbit ???
Immanentize
@Baud: Talk to Moses.
Ruckus
@ant:
You are just figuring this out?
Had you asked he could have told you that long ago. Well actually he has numerous times.
Miss Bianca
Is it weird that I’ve been wondering what happened to Mr Frog? Or, at least his pictures?
Tony Gerace
Great! You’re proactively alleviating the frog picture supply chain bottleneck
Chbnna
I have to say, i’m a long time lurker and I love this latest addition to the fun and games around here. Can’t wait!
SpaceUnit
I stood at the abyss, looking down, nothing to live for . . . ready to leap.
And then suddenly this.
Yarrow
Since this is John’s thread, this seems relevant:
Ken
@Immanentize: Trivia: In the Exodus story, the Hebrew has “frogs” except in one verse (8:2 in Jewish texts, 8:6 in Christian). That one reads “And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frog came up and covered the land of Egypt.”
There is a certain amount of rabbinical commentary on this….
Ohio Mom
I was bummed when the Mr. Frog series disappeared practically before it started but thought it would have been rude to complain. No more suffering in silence, Mr. Frog is coming back!! Woot! Woot!
Please send our thanks to Mom Cole for making this bit of joy possible.
Comrade Colette
Off-season frogs! It’ll be like 100 nights of Hanukkah.
We are going to the Giants playoff game tonight. Can’t hardly wait. Beat the Dodgers!
NotMax
The 100+ Frogs of Bartholomew Cubbins’ Country Cousin.
Rarest of the famous Teddy G’s works?
:)
SFBayAreaGal
@Comrade Colette: Have fun. I will be at home with my sisters watching the game
BEAT LA!!!
Just One More Canuck
(545) Frog Hello, My Baby – YouTube
Gravenstone
@Baud: I had one on my living room window the other night after a rain. I did not catch him to add to Cole’s collection.
dexwood
Hope none of these frogs have a magic twanger to be plucked.
Gravenstone
@Yarrow: That’s one …
J R in WV
Thanks for thinking of us, Cole. So glad we will have frog pix all winter.
We have a tiny (8’x12′) frog pond right outside our front door. There are several frogs who hang out around the little pond, and they all go “Ribbit! splash!!” when we pass the pond coming or going.
And there were a hunert-thousant tadpoles all spring and summer — was glorious to have them flashing around. I need to go into the pond to get the leaves out… so much to do, so little time!
Gravenstone
@Ken: But it was a very large frog. One of most unusual size and girth.
H.E.Wolf
Thank you! As a dedicated hoptoad collector (and releaser) in my childhood, I am looking forward to the glorious Winter of Mr. Frog.
laura
@Comrade Colette: Rally Towel time. Beat LA⚾️?
lowtechcyclist
@Ken:
I bet there is! Take three rabbis, and you can get at least four opinions.
So I pulled out my Bible, and I confess I’d forgotten the part where, after Moses stretches out his hand and brings the plague of frogs on Egypt, Pharoah’s magicians do the same, conjuring up more frogs, rather than trying to dispel them. If they were on Pharoah’s side, they sure were doing a bad job of it.
zhena gogolia
@dexwood: Okay, I guess you’re not one of the young ‘uns.
lollipopguild
WE should ask-nay demand! that President-in-exile Trump(TM) should write an executive order(with his best sharpie) ordering John to show us his frog pics NOW!
Josie
@ant:
Yes, but the fact that so many of us are looking forward with such excitement to more pictures of Mr. Frog proves that John has found his tribe. I know I feel better already.
prostratedragon
Looking forward to it! Thanks in advance.
Almost Retired
Why all the Dodger hate on this thread? I would totally be up there if I could to cheer on the Dodgers, although – by force of habit – all the Dodgers fans will leave after the 7th inning regardless of the score to avoid traffic.
NotMax
@Almost Retired
Hey, dat Brooklyn traffic is moiduh.
:)
CaseyL
I look forward to FrogQuest!
Will you continue to have fake frogs, to keep us on our toes?
Maybe the frogs will bring their friends?
Thanks, John :)
Tony Jay
“Now, students. With reference to the comment above, can any of you point to the word that, if replaced, could turn this comment into grounds for a charge of sexual harassment?
And a bonus point if you can replace it with a word that turns the above comment into a now infamous Twitter exchange between a former President and a former First Daughter.”
dexwood
@zhena gogolia: Definitely not. 70 seemed ancient to me once, seems ok to me now.
misterpuff
@Gravenstone: A veritable Goliath of frogs
trollhattan
@lowtechcyclist:
“Hot (technically room temperature) biblical frog-on-frog action, exclusively here on Balloon Juice!”
prostratedragon
@Almost Retired: Well, as my Yankees (forbidding glare) are not around, I’ll root for the Dodgers, but whatever happens, it’s sure to be memorable as those teams are this year.
Jeffro
OT but Gym Jordan is tweeting that Christmas presents were never late under president* trumpov, and Lauren Boebert is tweeting that the Norweigan bow-and-arrrows attack proves we don’t need gun control.
These people are so, sooooo monumentally d-u-m dumb.
zhena gogolia
@Jeffro: If Robin Hood had had an AK-47 . . .
Jeffro
@zhena gogolia: they’re just babbling nonsense at this point…easily disprovable nonsense…disconnected nonsense…
“My cereal is soggy: Biden’s fault!”
“The existence of pine trees disproves climate change!”
“whoop a be do boop boop ZOMP!”
Please, Uncle Joe, come out publicly in favor of breathing oxygen, and soon.
zhena gogolia
@Jeffro: My trainer was saying this morning that she’s already bought all her supplies for Thanksgiving except the turkey and potatoes. So the propaganda is having an effect.
Gravenstone
Your tastes are – questionable.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
“This bag of mini marshmallows, put to use only for Thanksgiving, has been reverently handed down from generation to generation.”
WaterGirl
John Cole, were you spying on me as I contemplated removing the Mr. Frog category for lack of use?
evodevo
@dexwood:
Yeah…what I wouldn’t give to be 70 again lol
bluefoot
Yay!! I have been missing the Mr. Frog posts. I appreciate the moment of zen they brought me.
Irishweaver
@Betty: Indeed. Be still my heart for frogs!
Ken
@NotMax: We could have a discussion of “foods you buy exactly once a year because great-aunt Sally’s Thanksgiving side dish uses them.”
I will nominate Durkee French-Fried Onions.On second thought, I’ll save the nomination in case a front-pager actually decides to make that post. Let this thread be for celebrating the Return of the Frog Over-and-Under the Water.
trollhattan
@Ken: My answer will always be corned beef. (Nothing to do with aunt Sally, though.)
J.
Requisite frog joke: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1t2ca9/the_golf_course_frog/