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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> This is not in actual fact true. It's only true if you
> have an anesthetized frog. My experience is that a frog
> will try to jump out of *anything* a human puts it into.
> It's one of those infamous urban legends. At least, a
> lengthy digging session didn't turn up a single actual
> citation of an experiment--just stories from speakers and
> various religious tracts. It survives because very few
> of us would ever be so nasty as to try boiling a living
> animal, and it's a nifty allegory besides.
Hah! Really? That's too bad, it *is* a nifty allegory. I hate it when one of
those great sentences has no reality-base. Boo.
> And before you ask, they *do* try to jump out of the
> microwave, too. No, I didn't actually turn it on--it
> was just a convenient (if disturbing) holding tank
> while I cleaned the aquarium.
Hah! I know someone who *did* turn it on. Ewww. And amazingly, he's my best
friend. ;-) I shudder at the thought. ;-)
-Shiri
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| "Shiri Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GEoLtx.HpA@lugnet.com... (...) That wouldn't be any corn-fed Lugnet readin' Iowan we happen to know, would it? Or is that your best friend, who isn't an SO? -Tim (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| I have no idea why I locked onto this, but I just did. (...) This is not in actual fact true. It's only true if you have an anesthetized frog. My experience is that a frog will try to jump out of *anything* a human puts it into. It's one of those (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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