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(abc.net.au)		Frogs attack Australian public toilets (abc.net.au)		41
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kanonball		2002-04-07 03:11:47 AM

what's green and smells like Miss Piggy ?

Kermit's finger

Prinzeugen		2002-04-07 03:12:21 AM

Lame attempt at humor #1:
"Well, it's not like anyone down there used them..."

Lame attempt at humor #2:
"Did they surrender?"

chime		2002-04-07 03:13:39 AM

I like alliteration: "Frog dance on filling flaps fails flush"

kanonball		2002-04-07 03:13:41 AM

FROGS WITH DIRTY LITTLE LIPS - Frank Zappa
Frogs with dirty little lips
Dirty little warts on their finger-tips
Dirty 'n green
Tiny 'n mean
Floppin' around
By the edge of the stream
Frogs with dirty little eyes
Dirty little tongues all covered with flies
Dirty brown
Floppin' around
Puffed up 'n bloated
When the sun goes down
Frogs with dirty little nose
Dirty little spots all over their clothes
Dirty legs
Dirty feet
Dirty little frogs is what you eat

Grateful_Phish		2002-04-07 03:14:58 AM

don't they have a big problem down there with frogs or am i just imaging that..

kanonball		2002-04-07 03:16:38 AM

cane toads !

SpaceCoyote		2002-04-07 03:18:10 AM

Grateful_Phish:Perhaps you're thinking of the Simpsons episode when Bart released his frog into the Australian ecosystem and as they were leaving millions of frogs started devouring all of their crops. I know that was the first thing that popped into my head.

Mandingo		2002-04-07 03:18:41 AM

Grateful_Phish: You're thinking of cane toads. There's generally less frogs, but Bodalla's one of the wetter parts of the country so it's probably frog heaven.

kanonball		2002-04-07 03:18:55 AM

cane toad fun facts :
They breed like flies, as the saying goes. Each pair of cane toads can lay 20,000 per breeding season (some published references estimate they produce as much as 60,000 eggs!).
* Their 'toadpoles' develop faster than many Australian frogs so they can outcompete our frogs for food.
* Toads and toadpoles seem to be resistant to some herbicides and eutrophic water which would normally kill frogs and tadpoles.
* All stages of a toad's life are poisonous so they have no natural predators to keep their numbers in check.
* Toads not only eat the food normally available to Australian frogs, there is growing anecdotal evidence that they eat frogs as well, especially metamorphs.

Phelpsbomb		2002-04-07 03:19:34 AM

a walk on the wild side. I've seen the crocadile hunter, and I know that in Australia, there is nothing wild about frogs.

Quick1		2002-04-07 03:33:59 AM

Yup, that Simpsons episode was the first thing that popped into my head, too. Give him the boot!

ElwoodCuse		2002-04-07 03:35:59 AM

Bloody 'ell! I'm taking this straight to the prime ministah!

Yizuman		2002-04-07 03:36:10 AM

Frogs! Hmmmm, tastes like toilet chicken!

trowshep		2002-04-07 03:36:41 AM

Kanonball: You beat me to it.

Best. Documentary. Ever.

Prinzeugen		2002-04-07 03:47:24 AM

That child is the spawn of Satan.

Hytes Xian		2002-04-07 03:48:13 AM

That Simpsons episode was right on. I got popped trying to sneak some rare plants into Australia in the eighties. Big ass fine and banned from the continent for ten years. Australia is free of rabies and a lot of other pathogens and pests the rest of the world has. They're understandably very protective.

greenbeetle		2002-04-07 04:13:40 AM

"Coffee?"

"Beer?"

"No no, Coff-ee"

"B-eer"

Chrisifa		2002-04-07 04:29:02 AM

Hahah nice work Hytes. Just wondering what kind of rare plants were you trying to sneak in

And by the way since so many areas of Aus are environmentally fragile they get pretty screwed up by introduced species. i.e. weeds and especially cane toads

But I don't really give a shiat because I live in Sydney and what happens in the outback doesn't concern me so long as I get my food from them

Hytes Xian		2002-04-07 05:03:15 AM

Chrisifa:
Texas native plants, actually. The states of Texas and South Australia were both celebrating their Sesquicentennials that year, and I was part of a cultural exchange between botanic gardens. I was going to surprise the Adelaide gardens with some plants their director had admired when he was over here. They were so embarrassed by the publicity. I can laugh now.

Norad		2002-04-07 05:03:19 AM

You people are missing the point. This is the single dumbest thing I've read in months. What a shiatty dipshiat dumbass news article.

Who's the editor at this paper, Elmaer Fudd?

Fold. Wipe. Flush. Done with this one

pj6100		2002-04-07 05:31:08 AM

Failed Fosters Ad:

"Ribbit.....ribbit......rib....."

"Toilet Paypah"

"Be-ah"

Neuman		2002-04-07 06:04:55 AM

I'da called 'em Chaz-wozzers!

Bumjube		2002-04-07 07:03:00 AM

If theres one thing I miss about living in Brisbane, its making the cane toads go squish under my car...

juicylucy		2002-04-07 07:07:30 AM

If theres one thing I miss about visiting Brisbane, its being in the car with Bumjube as she drives around and around and around and around the round abouts to make sure she squishes the cane toads under her car. I LOVE THIS SONG!!!

grivas		2002-04-07 07:21:24 AM

Airport surveillance picked up the party responsible.

This will end up going all the way to the prime minister.

Sleek		2002-04-07 08:59:48 AM

Q: Whats brown and sits at the bottom of the toilet?

A: Kermit the bog

Note: i dont know if any country other than AUS know what "bog" is slang for..

Hatshepsut		2002-04-07 09:20:36 AM

Frogs in toilets...beh. Now, if the frogs can put on top hats and sing ragtime, THAT'S a story...

ghost_who_walks		2002-04-07 10:01:09 AM

Hmmm, when I grew up in the bush (long way from this place, but the name sounds just as silly) we used to have this problem, only the frogs would get sucked down the pipe and get flushed into the bowl. Our cistern was high up (chain pull type) and you would hear the frog scream ("RrRrraaaaaaaaagh") on it's way down the tube. Quite a weird thing.
They always survived though, and would then sit in the bowl until Dad came home from work and fished them out. (Little blighters wouldn't go down the rest of the way, and it felt a little cruel to use them for dunny "target practice") And they'd be back for more. Dad actually expremented once, marking one frog with red paint and then tossing him down the gully. Next week, he was back in the bowl. Freaky thing.

Bad_CRC		2002-04-07 10:02:25 AM

it'd probably be

"What's brown and floats around in the toilet?

kermit the log"

around here sleek.

Stripe		2002-04-07 10:20:27 AM

I would of suggested releasing native snakes in the area to eat the toads, but I forgot to consider exactly how BIG those critters are! No WONDER the toilets wouldn't flush!
Wonder what Cane Toad legs taste like?
(all together now)
"Like Chicken!"

Seriously tho, if you can eat frog legs you'd think there'd be more meat on the cane toad's legs....*shrug*

Why does the movie "Frogs" come to mind?

biznatchc		2002-04-07 11:47:48 AM

"There like kangaroos, but they're reptiles they is."

"Bullfrogs, that's an odd name - I'd 'a called 'em chazwozzers."

meshman		2002-04-07 12:48:24 PM

"Frogs attack Australian public toilets"

Then cancel all flights from France. Problem solved.

exick		2002-04-07 01:47:50 PM

I'm surprised it took until Meshman to make the frog-Frenchy connection.

snaguaro		2002-04-07 02:21:49 PM

Anybody else immediatley think of this?

Sidecrab		2002-04-07 02:22:46 PM

Tibelias!

spodefly		2002-04-07 02:44:05 PM

Frogs are people too.

Disposable		2002-04-07 04:09:04 PM

This can only be the first step in a nefarious amphibian plan to overthrow the human opressors and take over the world. Viva la revolution!

Archfeld		2002-04-07 09:14:44 PM

Cane Toads are poisonous, to eat at least. This may in fact be sweet revenge for the eucalyptus invasion of california.
Those horrible trees are killing everything in sight, the native fauna cannot eat them, nor can the native flora compete with the drought surviva-bility of a euca.

Rabbitoh		2002-04-08 12:23:17 AM

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned that hippies lick cane toads backs or boil them down into a liquid due to their poison sacks being a drug similar to LSD. How the first person foudn that out.. I don't wanna know :D

Anyway it was the idiot Queensland farmers who let the cane toads into the country in the first place. They were brought from South America to eat the bugs infecting the sugar cane. They completely ignored the bugs and do nothing but breed.

The only thing a cane toad can be used for is a substitute for a cricket ball.

The_dev0		2002-04-08 01:34:40 AM

I dunno, I prefer a 3-wood, or better still, cathin em headfirst with the tyre of my car.

Pop!

silverepifanie		2002-04-08 06:12:43 PM

Trowshep, yes, that is the best documentary ever. Dairy Queen kiled me. Oh, and the guy who likes to sit outside and watch the frogs mate. Classic.

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