Why “Frogs”?

NRO ^ | January 12, 2005 | John J. Miller

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Frog legs. Who made 'em famous?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I'll keep calling them frogs. I hope frogs are not offended by it!

[camle]

in the earliest days, paris was a swamp, infested with frogs. early french totems and flags had the frog as a symbol.

[AirForceMom]

Because it's not polite to use another "f" word when refering to them?

[null and void]

Frogs bathe...

[Mr. Mojo]

"When you insult the French people, simply because they are French, then it's kind of a racist campaign," said Ambassador Jean-David Levitte.

It appears Jean-David is a bit confused about what constitutes a "race" of people.

[Slings and Arrows]

Perhaps it's their moral similarities?

[Mr. Lucky]

...and are probably capable of fielding a more effective military force.

[kahoutek]

"A Paris putdown for non-Parisians. Sophisticated urbanites sneered at the rural taste for amphibians (see #1, above), and attached the term to everybody but themselves, which is to say the bulk of the national population.

How French.

Kay Sarah.

Poly Voo Frankie's?

[trisham]

Or maybe even cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

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Or maybe even panty-waisted cheese-eathing surrender monkeys.

[pikachu]

1. One reason maybe because they call their infants grenouille or frongs. A French woman once tried to explain to me that newborns with splayed legs looked like frogs. Didn't make much sense to me but oh well.

2. Saying 'Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys' oftne takes too long.

[kahoutek]

Looks like more pictures of Abu Grabbed Me.

[kahoutek]

On #2:

It's English for 'Francias'

[TXBSAFH]

Because they are slimmy worthless toads?

[Slings and Arrows]

When I first posted that link, I was told it was from Abu Ghribbit. ;-)

[Polybius]

[TheBigB]

Frog legs. Who made 'em famous?

Well...

[dighton]

Or we might allude to something else entirely and call them chickens.

Almost inevitably, that most Gascon of all animals, the rooster, was chosen long ago as the national symbol of France. (The choice is fortuitous, of course, because of a Latin pun, Gallus, meaning both the courtyard animal and the inhabitant of Gaul. The English pun could probably be considered even more apt). The brilliantly plumed cock is the first to announce the dawn of a new day to everybody, dominates his immediate world, seduces and fecundates all the unresisting hens, destroys his rivals, and crows triumphantly from the top of the dungheap.

-- Luigi Barzini, The Europeans.

[billybudd]