What's this about licking toads?

Yeah, it's a great idea to get kids messing with wildlife in Australia. Send 'em out to club some toads, then they come back with 15 taipans stuck to their butts and funnel-web spiders in their armpits.

Animal rights activists make me sick when it comes to an army of toads taking over Australia... I for one, would use a flamethrower.

Go ahead and lick the Toad, everyone Cool is doing it. Meet me behind the school and we'll lick toads together.

says bludgeoning them [toads] to death is inhumane

So? They are not human therefore any treatment of them is inhumane. And fark 'em if Canadians can go around clubbing seals that are a menace then Aussies should be free to do the same to toads.

/not anti-seal clubbing.

Its kind of interesting that a very successful species whose only major flaw(as far as survival goes) is that humans dont like it is being killed so that it dosnt reach a city named Darwin.

So the RSPCA fears children will be violent towards other animals if allowed to have a go at the toads. According to that logic, wouldn't putting toads in the freezer give children the idea to freeze other animals?

Sorry, had to be done

"We've had cases recently in Darwin where we've had children having violent acts towards bats; interstate we've had violence towards kittens," Ms Cummins said.

Fark is obviously next on her list.....

They obviously haven't considered marketing them better...

The old National Lamoon article "Frog Baseball" came to mind...

Headline too difficult for Monday.

*Lampoon. Sheesh.

couldn't they just shoot them? oh wait, guns are illegal over there. ha ha. suckers.

//bought a gun this weekend.

I know there's some kind of Darwin joke in this story somewhere...

Freezing them to death doesn't sound very humain. Maybe they should take a couple of these animal rights activists, freeze one to death, and club the other to death (one quick blow to the noggin), then ask them which they preferred.

Lando, what would you do?

So are these things poisonous or soemthing? If they are causing slow death in crocs, they have to have some sort of defense. And if they're not poisonous, the fire up the barbie!

I'm not not licking toads...

I used to keep spiders in jars. Then I would catch other bugs, like flies, mosquitos, etc., and put hem in the freezer to slow 'em down a bunch. Then, when they're all dopey, we'd introduce them to the spiders. Wild Kingdom in my basement

Thumbs down to the submitter's incomprehensible headline. And no, for the record, I did not submit a better one.

The best documentary ever, in my opinion, is on this topic. It's called Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, and is available on Netflix. I highly recommend it for an entertaining and informative experience. Seriously, it's comedy gold.

We have a saying here "you gotta lick it before you can kick it." & "no kicking the battle toads." Sounds like they need to develope a taste for toad legs down under. Buzz.

[Truman Capote voice]

Use your damn prepositions!

[/Truman Capote voice]

I have no idea what that headline means.

"Whilst they hit cane toads and make a very healthy sounding smack when they do, they don't really have enough mass to crush the cane toad's skull."


That is just AWFUL!! I say get larger, heaver cricket bats. Fark 'em. They weren't invited to this party. (*shakes fist* Damn, alien, party crashers, get off my desert) Damn shame they aren't good to eat, elsewise larger, heavier freezers would carry the day.

/louder, healthier smacking sounds = longer putts

Steve Perry-

Your characterization of this grand documentary could not be truer.

Has there ever been a better character in a documentary than the "Cane Toad Vigilante" who chases down cane toads with his VW bus?

Or a greater slow motion shot than the Cane toad eating a live mouse whole?

Or better yet, the little girl with the pet cane toad, cleverly named "Toady" who she sometimes calls "Caney"?

I think the answer is no. This is the greatest documentary on any subject. Ever.

Headline made my head hurt, but then I figured it out and all was happy.

So the RSPCA fears children will be violent towards other animals if allowed to have a go at the toads. According to that logic, wouldn't putting toads in the freezer give children the idea to freeze other animals?

What is really interesting is that many animal rights groups say that hurting animals predicts violence against people. Perfect example of correlation not showing causation.

Serial killers usually have abused animals. Serial killers usually have gone to school. School causes serial killers just like "abusing" animals does. Thing is, all too many pre-teen kids have hurt animals of some kind. I used to spray-paint lizards for some reason. I never killed anyone (yet). Sadistic torture of an animal--I'd be concerned. Beating a toad with a golf club--I'd say at least they aren't robbing my house.

I am very dissapointed with FARK this morning. I can't believe no one has posted a reference to the Simpson's episode where the frogs take over Austrailia

Little rabid ugly opossum babies with needle teeth also make a very satisfying WHACK when you take to 'em with a golf club

I have to second (third?) the kudos for Cane Toads: An Unnatural History. If you haven't seen it, check it out. Comedy gold indeed!

i've actually gone cane toad clubbing, up in Bundaberg, Queensland, after a heavy rain. I took with me a 2-wood and some XXXX. Fun times, but cane toads are pesky...

steeljay:

I am very dissapointed with FARK this morning. I can't believe no one has posted a reference to the Simpson's episode where the frogs take over Austrailia


I second this also!

Gawd those things are ugly enough to make me wanna swing. Where's my 5 iron?

sounds like whacking day

"it was started back in the twenties as an excuse to beat up the irish"

What? That's an odd name. I'd have called them "chazzwazzers".

They should simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the toads.

It's an emergency!

That documentary impressed me and my family enough to give us all a lifetime obsession with the toads. My Dad shows Cane Toads: An Unnatural History in his Horticulture 100 class every semester. I have a Cane Toads web page...

You'll get chills
All through your body
And you'll lose all control
Of your bladder
And your sphincter
That's your bum hole

'Cause if you use toad, then I'm telling you...
You can kiss your life goodbye.

Yeah when you use toad,
It will mess you up.
It will make your mama cry
That's no lie,
You'll choke on your tongue and die

You've got to give it up
You got to give up the toad now
It's no joke buddy, give it up
You got to give up the toad now
Or you'll croak
You've got to give it up,
And don't smoke
Or you will see,
It hurts to pee

There'll be blood, gushing from ya
Every time that you cough
And forget getting lucky,
It falls off

Yeah you'd better wise up
'Cause I'm telling you
Toad is one Lando forbids

Got to give it all up
Or you're gonna see
Your whole life will hit the skids
And your kids will be born without eyelids

You've got to give it up
You got to give up the toad now
Thanks to you
And just give it up

(Brian) Give up the toad now

Thanks to you, Lando
Give it up
Got to give up the toad now, Oh-oh-oooh
I'm no fool, Lando's cool
YEAH!!!

Swiss Colony: So? They are not human therefore any treatment of them is inhumane.

I am not arguing morality with you, but this the article did use the word "inhumane" properly.

From the OED: "Not humane; destitute of compassion for misery or suffering in men or animals."

I think the point is that the behaviour is done by humans.

Don't the Chinese consider some part of this toad an aphrodisiac?

/business opportunity

I don't get the problem with the headline. Made sense to me, although we tend not to use lick as a term for defeat anymore. Kind of 1950's sandlot term.

Does anyone live in Darwin?

I recommend a lawnmower as the preferred toad-killing method. Roll a push mower over a moist clump of grass and listen to the sound the blades make when the big toad jumps up to escape. As an added bonus, it automatically skins the toad too.

/true story

are they poisonous and can I eat them? can I expect a new franchise invasion? "I'll have a 12 pack of Cane Crunchies, a side of Cactus Rings, and a Hoppy Shake to go"