FrankenFrog



I am so out of the loop.

Total misunderstanding.

Non-communicative

Misread the warning signs.

How could I have been so wrong?

Two weeks ago I told a story about the goldfish having sex and I concluded the ditty with the following. Remember this paragraph?

"Froggy was down at the other end sitting on a rock and when I appeared at the door he looked at me like he was saying, "Can you believe these guys? - What the heck is going on? - Did you put something different in the water? They never did this before!"

Just when you think you know your own frog and then everything goes haywire. OK-OK so we never had any formal communication lessons on either side but I raised that little, (well not-so-little now) bugger from a tad-pole and one just wants to think they're on the same wave-length as their favorite pet. Not so, turns out he wasn't saying those things at all!

As with most mornings, today I awoke and went to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. While sipping, I wander over to the door and look at the pond to normally see Froggy sitting down on the rock looking back at me as though he's saying, "It's about time, I've been up for hours." But of course now I wonder what he's really been saying as this morning's greeting would have been totally garbled, muffled and incoherent. To my shock and horror I look out and (prepare yourself for the mayhem), Froggy has 3 inches of a 5" goldfish sticking out of his mouth. "Ohmygod! What are YOU doing?!, I gasped.

When he saw me it was one of two things he was feeling. His head turned kind of pinkish green like he was totally embarrassed that I caught him eating another one of my pets; or he was just disgusted that I interrupted him while he was eating - I can't tell anymore.

Turns out what he was actually saying a couple weeks ago was not "Can you believe these guys?" It was, "Can you help me CATCH these guys?"- Not, "What the heck is going on?" But "This stuff turns me on!" - He wasn't saying... "Did you put something different in the water?" He was asking, "Could you put some fish stock in the water?" And not, "They never did this before!" It was, "They never tasted so good before!"

I put a call into the TV show "Animal Precinct" for guidance but I'm probably going to need an criminal, I mean, animal lawyer. :-)

Your froggy is a bullfroggy.
I liked having them in my pond as they were on
population control duty.
Of course if they had eaten the named fish I might have thought differently!


k30a

Well done, the story, not the fish, which was obvious preferred quite Rare.
~ jan )


On Thu, 22 May 2003 16:43:02 -0700, "bobkiely" wrote:

FrankenFrog



I am so out of the loop.

Total misunderstanding.

Non-communicative

Misread the warning signs.

How could I have been so wrong?

Two weeks ago I told a story about the goldfish having sex and I concluded the ditty with the following. Remember this paragraph?

"Froggy was down at the other end sitting on a rock and when I appeared at the door he looked at me like he was saying, "Can you believe these guys? - What the heck is going on? - Did you put something different in the water? They never did this before!"


Just when you think you know your own frog and then everything goes haywire. OK-OK so we never had any formal communication lessons on either side but I raised that little, (well not-so-little now) bugger from a tad-pole and one just wants to think they'r
e on the same wave-length as their favorite pet. Not so, turns out he wasn't saying those things at all!

As with most mornings, today I awoke and went to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. While sipping, I wander over to the door and look at the pond to normally see Froggy sitting down on the rock looking back at me as though he's saying, "It's about t
ime, I've been up for hours." But of course now I wonder what he's really been saying as this morning's greeting would have been totally garbled, muffled and incoherent. To my shock and horror I look out and (prepare yourself for the mayhem), Froggy has 3
inches of a 5" goldfish sticking out of his mouth. "Ohmygod! What are YOU doing?!, I gasped.

When he saw me it was one of two things he was feeling. His head turned kind of pinkish green like he was totally embarrassed that I caught him eating another one of my pets; or he was just disgusted that I interrupted him while he was eating - I can't te
ll anymore.

Turns out what he was actually saying a couple weeks ago was not "Can you believe these guys?" It was, "Can you help me CATCH these guys?"- Not, "What the heck is going on?" But "This stuff turns me on!" - He wasn't saying... "Did you put something differ
ent in the water?" He was asking, "Could you put some fish stock in the water?" And not, "They never did this before!" It was, "They never tasted so good before!"

I put a call into the TV show "Animal Precinct" for guidance but I'm probably going to need an criminal, I mean, animal lawyer. :-)


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