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July 11, 2004 |
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Toad Skin
FOUND by Jennifer Gooch
A co-worker found this in "Fighting Indians of the West" at our used bookstore. I had the mental image of some creep slowly peeling the skin from a helpless, wriggling toad, the fiend's chuckles barely covering the amphibious squeaks...then I found out that toads molt.
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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...
GREAT GOODNESSness. this is not a toad! frog! looks like a lepoard frog.
I'm stuck between disturbed and intrigued...
Amphibians molt, but this is not a molted skin.
Yeeeeaaah, that was skinned. How weird IS that?
I particularly like the work done around the eyes...
Nah, this is just some cross promotional stunt between the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hannibal Lectre prequels. The movie execs are creative, but have they crossed the line? Nope. Call me when you find a cat’s hide in an old Ya-Ya Sisterhood book.
Ew. I imagine someone stole this from a dissection.
I agre with Cat. People steal all kinds of weird things from dissections. A friend of mine stole a pig lung in her biology lecture. Thats how she got the nickname lung girl...
HAHA! "and then.." The funniest thing about this is the finder's comment! I would guess that the skin is from a junior high biology class and that the student thought an appropriate book to press it in would be this one on American Indians.
Once upon a time there was a...what the?!!?!
I agree that it's probably from a dissection. I had to dissect a frog in high school and we had to take the skin off of it so we could study and memorize the muscles. Ripping off the skin was one of the singularly most creeptastic experiences of my high school career- I'll never forget the noise it made. UGH. I made my lab partner do most of it, it was too horrifying. It did mostly come off in one piece like that though, once you started pulling. I'll say it again: UGH.
that is sick.
My father, while out on his daily walk once found a perfectly preserved camelion that had been run over by a car and had baked/mumified on the road. We were living in Africa at the time so it wasn't unusual to find such a critter, but I couldn't believe it was perfectly preserved, that's the African sun for you! My dad used it as a book mark....I wonder what happened to it. In any case it would be illegal to take it out of the country.
Frogs,toads,whatever...they're just food for something else,I do hope that it was dead when they skinned it though,nothing should suffer like that.
This is creepy. It's upsetting me. =[
I refused to dissect frogs back in the 9th grade. I'll continue to refuse dissecting anything else I might be told to dissect in college.
That's nothing. In HS we disected cats. Peelin' the skin off those babies was really gross.
My lab partner pocketed the cat's skull and took it home secretly when we were done with the project. Future psychopath!
Oh yeah in the front of the book it says, this book belongs to Jeffery Dahmer.
Mia, your comment cracked me up!!
maybe it grew out of it's skin and left it behind like snakes do,like they said,it molted.My question is;did they find the actual skin,or a picture of the skin?
Reminds me...I need a new bookmark...
omg! thatsb just fucking nasty who would do some shit like that i bet it was a dumb bitch that did it.
... and if you give it a kiss
If you give it a kiss it will turn into the dried skin of a prince?
I'm fairly sure leopard frogs are protected. That would seem to indicate to me that whoever did this didn't get it from a dissection but actually had to go out and capture it for themselves. Unless of course they got it from that guy on the corner who deals black market amphibians.
This is vile. THank you, FOUND! This has made me very glad to be a college student, and not a frog/toad.
Frogs and toads eat their molted skin which is shed daily. It comes off as more or less a clear slime. Someone was clearly in envy of this amphibian and sought to create some sort of twisted frog jacket from it. I saw something just like this on CSI: Bog reeds
It is a leopard frog skin and they don't molt, neither do toads. Very interesting - never heard of frog skin moccasins either.
Ya'll are just a bunch of big babies.
Some things die. Some things shed skin. Some things are picked apart by twelve year olds.
It's a fact of life.
Is anyone else really hungry now?
i am!
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