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I have no idea why I locked onto this, but I just did.
In lugnet.castle, Tim Courtney writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Richard Marchetti writes:
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> > -- Hop-Frog (turning the heat up more slowly these days...)
>
> You know the whole frog-in-boiling-water phenomenon, right? Put a frog in
> boiling water, he'll jump out. Turn up the heat slowly, he'll just sit
> there and roast.
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.
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.
best
LFB
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