[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?

[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.

[TXBSAFH]

Because they are slimmy worthless toads?

[Polybius]

[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]

[OldEagle]

I have heard that it was from their distinctive green WWI uniforms???

[dangus]

Ummm, does it strike anyone else that hiring a French philosopher (translation: professional left-winger) to review a book critical of the French is hardly conducive to a fair evaluation?

[Tribune7]

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

The Roman name for France was Gaul stemming from the word "gallus" which was this. And it really is France's national emblem.

[MikeHu]

I like to call them quiche-eaters.

[Verginius Rufus]

During WWI and WWII, and perhaps even later, the French referred to Germans as "Boche." The term was intended to convey hatred. Does anyone know where the word Boche came from?

The French can dish it out, but they can't take it.

[FixitGuy]

I thought it was that overly ornate button hole thingie on old jackets that resemble a "frog" and is also called a frog.

4. An ornamental looped braid or cord with button or knot for fastening the front of a jacket.

Or maybe..7. a hoarseness in the throat.

or..."Something to be coughed up and spat out.."

[Born Conservative]

Bump for later; I have a book at home that gives the reason for the French being called Frogs. IIRC, it dates back to the French Revolution. I'll check later and post it.