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August 02, 2007 |
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Bad Frog
FOUND by Michelle Faucher
in Santa Fe, New Mexico
I found this near the sidewalk on St. Francis Drive. The patron saint of frogs!
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
This sounds like a parent/teacher/supervisor/person in an authoratative position that is fed up with children (or someone acting childish) opening the container too many times allowing the frog to escape. It may be the last resort to get the person/people to stop it before the frog disappears *wink, wink* for good - and not under the bed/table/dresser or down into the garbage can this time!
Great instructions for that kid who you've chosen to frog-sit while you are away.
I am a note - I speak for the frogs. hee hee
I love it!
Oh Kermie, you're such a bad ass.
I'm going to start using that phrase in the bedroom. (At least the first part.)
You can have it L, I'm going to use the second part.
I guess if I were opened I'd jump out of my container, too.
I don't think this note was a last resort. i think it is a precautionary measure taken by most elementary school teachers who have a frog as a class pet.
This sounds like a parent/teacher/supervisor/person in an authoratative position that is fed up with children (or someone acting childish) opening the container too many times allowing the frog to escape. It may be the last resort to get the person/people to stop it before the frog disappears *wink, wink* for good - and not under the bed/table/dresser or down into the garbage can this time!
Hahaha. This one has to be my favorite!
I love it! A happy found!
I wish this had been yesterday's (my b-day) find. i love frogs. Particularly ones that are bad. This reminds me of the time a co-worker put a tree frog in my office. Not very nice for the frog, and i yelled at him (my coworker, not the frog.) but he put it in a container that said "open me, i'm hungry"
I believe St. Francis is the patron St. of animals, birds, and the environment. Froggies definitely fit into that category. You can also pray to him to help find lost things. At least, it works for peter when he losses the key to the gate.
I believe St Anthony is actually the patron saint of lost things.
The frog symbol on a gravestone means resurrection. Or, it may depict sin and wordly pleasures.
RUN Froggy, RUN!!! Hop back to the puddle from which you came!
If I saw this I would have opened the container in a second! It's not the frog that was bad, it was the people holding it captive. Maybe it finally made it's escape, and the note wasn't needed any longer. Freedom to the Frog!!!
Maybe it's just me, but... don't ALL frogs jump out of anything you put them in? Free the frogs!
How did the frog write the note? And then how did he/she get it on the outside of the box after they had been closed inside? Nature is so amazing.
I stole all the frogs that were doomed to be dissected in my Senior biology class in High School and freed them in the river. (I know now that you shouldn't introduce non-native species to a new enviromnet, blah blah blah. But it seemed like a great idea at the time.) Most importantly, I was never caught. So if you're reading this, Mr. Cole, it was me. Your beloved, trusted TA. Yeah, it was an inside job.
And I'd probably do it again.
omg, this looks EXACTLY like my dad's handwriting. he couldn't have written it though, because we've never kept frogs and he's lived near chicago his entire life.
I'll second that, Cotton. Or, as we say down here in the South - Ay-MEN!
WHY PEOPLE INSIST ON KEEPING 'PETS' THAT CANNOT SHOW AFFECTION AND WOULDN'T RETURN HOME IF YOU LET IT OUT IN YOUR FRONT YARD IS BEYOND ME.
NOVELTY, I GUESS. YOU'RE ALL SELFISH, MISERABLE PEOPLE
Miseable being must find more miserable being, then, he's happy.
Yes, I'm talking to our favorite preservative.
Yay, Beeswax!!!
SALT - why would you give a flying rat's ass bit of thought whether a pet was capable of showing affection or not?
Just an observation here, but you sound like the miserable one.
I think this is clearly a note on a school tank to warn parents and kids about what will happen.
The best way to keep this from happening is to eat their legs. Ya hear that, Frenchy?!?
i love SALT. Especially how everyone will always comment on his comments. Y'all are so defensive, insecure, and weak-minded to others contradicting opinions.
lol
well, at least he's honest, unlike SOME frogs i know . . .
I WANT MONA TO KNOW THAT I DO NOT APPROVE OF WHOEVER TOOK OVER HER ALIAS
terrieissovery- hahaha I love your location soooo much!
Beeswax- wow that's awesome- you ROCK! Boooooorrrrn Freeeeee...
Happy Birthday, Mona Lisa!!
ANOTHER documentary filmmaker? wtf?
What kind of world do we live in where an instinctive desire for freedom is construed as BAD behavior?
Thank you, SALT. See, people? SALT is not the jerk that you think he is....
whoever wrote that in my name, that's so extremely tacky. Whatever happened to couth.
Found people, if you could remove that earlier comment, that so obviously, is not mine. My kids read this..... i'm not trying to pounce on anyone's right to freedom of speech or anything..... but please?
impersonators are everywhere, aren't they? why do people have to be such idiots.
AHH! It is the day of runaway frogs and stolen alias' [Is there a proper plural for "alias"? Aliai perhaps?]
Seriously... who is stealing our beloved Mona Lisa and SALT away from us?
About the found: For some reason I envisioned a poor, helpless frog in a tupperware container attempting to escape, only to recognize through the blue-tinted plastic that there is a note preventing the sweet escape. [Please excuse my terrible spelling.]
Beeswax,
If at some point in the future I die on the operating room table because my surgeon didn't get to cut open a frog in biology class...I'm going to haunt you forever.
He has nice hand-writing for an amphibian.
lost -- why would it matter that your dad has never been near Chicago in his entire life if this was found in Sante Fe, NM?
Good point Salt, but I have to agree with others that it's probably a schoolteacher warning parents/kids to keep the lid on tight.
Huzzah for you Frog! Leap out! Don't let them get you and don't look back.
Yes, by all means, keep the lid on the container or there won't be anything on the menu for tonight's special!
At last - a funny find!
Turbo: Ha! Great
Mona Lisa, check out posts under your name yesterday. I was going to comment on it but figured I wouldn't fuel commenter's already inflamed imaginations. Glad to hear it's not the real you :)
I used to have a pet frog named Hopalong Cassidy. He was a good little frog, but he did escape one day. I didn't try to find him. I bet he's out there right now with his musket and fur hat and making all the girl-frogs swoon and the baddies tremble in fear.
Oh I'm so sad so see someone doing that to Mona Lisa....not cool...not cool at all.
I don't understand why things have to get so mean, ugly & downright hateful when we are just commenting on a found note, picture or object ?
This is a cute find - reminds me of notes my teacher left around our classroom in re: to our class pets. One or two fish and hamsters being overfed, and our teacher learned to keep notes on everything.
A sub for one of my classes actually believed some of the kids who said we let the snake out every day to "get some exercise."
ATTEMPT TO IMPERSONATE ME IF YOU MUST BUT YOU WILL NEVER LIVE UP TO THE PRODIGIOUS POTENCY THAT IS ME
I just hope there were airholes in the container for the poor little frog
Yeah, frog! Stick it to the man!
SALT, have you ever read "a confederacy of dunces"? your manner of speech reminds me of ignatius
if you haven't read it you should, it's a great book
I'm with hotmom, I was surprised when I read your post yesterday and glad it wasn't you- particularly because it sounded very unpleasant for you lol.
Happy late birthday, btw!
thanks, hotmom. You know, i do my best not to be mean. I might comment a little harshly, but never, ever, have i attacked someone the way i've been attacked. Likely, the ass who did that crap will do something again. Whatever.
thanks mickey. and sappy, and whoever else knows the real me isnt that rude.
Sorry curious, Salt can't read that well.
Sorry Nikki, but salt is more well-spoken than most of the people in the Found comments.
And I agree that it doesn't seem right to keep pets that cannot reciprocate their owner's affections. It's more or less inhumane, keeping them caged up for most or all of their lives.
OH, PRODIGIOUS PROFICIENT PRECOCIOUS PROFANITY!
Oh B.S., lot's wife. Get off the PETA wagon. So long as they have a proper habitat and good food, simpler-brained creatures like frogs are just fine in captivity. He'll live three times as long as in the wild, never get eaten by a snake, and never go hungry. Don't anthropomorphize so much!
A quick phonecall to my mother has revealed the truth about what happened to Hopalong Cass. I guess he escaped and was found dead behind the couch. So much for my romantic visions!
I dreamt last night that frogs were leaping out of a swamp in such astounding arcs that I thought they were birds.
Bad little frogs jumping out of their containers, and as this find loaded slowly on my dial-up comp I was sure it was a bedroom line.
No frogs are bad . Only people who write in patronizing baby frog first person are bad .
Hey FOUND guys can you block the waste of air that is writing the perverted shit ?
mona, consider it licked and happy birthday
They shouldn't be indoors, when they're meant to be outdoors. Frogs needs their water, birds need to fly! I think it's soo soo cruel to keep a bird caged up. How would you like to be that bird, being caged up all day. Taking the abuse of your owner, telling you to shut up, while all along you're just trying to wbistle a pretty little song. And then more abuse, they put a sheet over your cage in hopes that it will shut you up and make you sleep. I hate that about Doris. She did that to her poor little birds. All they wanted to do was fly and whistle. Ugh... I'm so happy that one of them finally flew away. She should have never bought them in the first place. Ay-men!
Dear L; I take full responsibility. But please be warned that pretty much anyone I had Senior Biology with was not med-school material, so you were probably screwed anyway. So much for the "advance placement" theory.
Hopalong, I'm so sorry to hear of you beloved frog's demise. I hope he at least had some adventures, even though they remain undocumented, before he died.
And to the rest: frog pow-ah!
My God, that frog is a GENIUS!
c'mon people. mona lisa's offensive comment comes around 10:30 p.m. on her birthday??? how about she had a couple of drinks and got mouthy. she sees today what she wrote and wait, it wasn't her? is she that interesting that her alias is sought after to embarass her?
Offended, it wasn't me. I never thought i was that interesting, frankly. I dont get why someone would be so rude as to do that to me.
Mona, we know that wasn't you. I'm sorry you're taking the brunt of this person's puerile humor. Like the rest of us, your kids will recognize that a troll has hijacked your name (and Salt's and pitch's and others). I'm sure "offended" is the same person as well.
Everyone: just ignore the troll. Our reactions are the air they breathe.
I suppose it's true that frogs and other such critters are small brained, and we don't KNOW if they actually have the capacity to return affections or even care if they're free or not at all. But, say it's true that they don't care whether or not they're caged. Why would you want a pet that dumb?
I caught a frog yesterday while mowing the lawn. I carried it well away from where I was cutting and as it stared at me I truly believe it knew it wasn't going to die. Things that try to escape feel threatened. Nothing belongs in a cage. Animals as pets in grade school and animals disected in highschool is ridiculous, university sure, but only for those wishing to get into those types of careers.
Mona Lisa - you are quite welcome.
I think 'cyber-bullies' are increasing in number by the thousands. I just read an article about it recently.
We're becoming more civil as a society in person, but online, it's degrading quickly.
BTW to all - if you ever want to complain of rude or offensive comments, your best bet is to email the FoundMagazine staff.
They rock & will check it out for you.
There's enough rude crap out there, that's the last thing we need MORE of.
We rocked it-- thanks for letting us know!
to found: Did the frog pee on your hand? I'm betting the smile was bladder relief.
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Hmm so now i'm curious... I went to go check out "Mona"'s comments yesterday but couldn't find them.... what exactly is happening with said impersonation?
There are no bad frogs. Just bad froggy behavior.
This note is written all in caps. Seems suspicious to me.... :-)
Happy belated birthday, Mona. You're wise to rise above the bullshit.
This reminds me of the scene in "E.T." when Elliott is in biology class, and somehow gets shitfaced off the beer that E.T. is drinking back at the house, and proceeds to liberate all the about-to-be-dissected frogs.
rivvet. rivvet.
you cant find them, because our friends at found really do care, and removed them. Thank you so much, found guys.
Hotmom, no the frog did not pee on my hand.
I like frogs. I feel terrible when we're electroshocking for fish and a frog gets caught in the charge. They seem to recover all right though...I wonder how many escaped frog incidents there were before this note was written...
happy (belated) bday to the one and only Mona Lisa!
Who the hell is Doris (some lady with birds?)?
who knew a little frog could operate a marker so well?
CW in Austin, i think i love you.
Seriously, that sounds like something a College of Santa Fe student would write and leave somewhere.
That's so cute!
Yayy for froggies, tehe (: