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Posted on 04/23/2005 8:45:05 PM PDT by Lessismore
Hundreds of toads have met an unexplained, explosive demise in Germany in recent days, it was reported on Saturday.
According to reports from animal welfare workers and veterinarians as many as a thousand of the amphibians have perished after their bodies swelled to bursting point and their entrails were propelled for up to a metre.
It is like "a science fiction film", according to Werner Smolnik of a nature protection society in the northern city of Hamburg, where the phenomenon of the exploding toad has been observed.
"You see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding," he said.
He said the bodies of the toads expanded to three-and-a-half times their normal size.
"I have never seen such a thing," said veterinarian Otto Horst.
So bad has the death toll been that the lake in the Altona district of Hamburg has been dubbed "the pond of death".
Access to it has been sealed off and every night a biologist visits it between 2:00am and 3:00am, which appears to be peak time for batrachians to go bang.
Explanations include an unknown virus, a fungus that has infected the water, or crows, which in an echo of the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds, attack the toads, literally scaring them to death.
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I be are a college graduate.
Well then, all your degrees are belong to us...
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5.56mm
Too much fast food?
JUMP!
(ribbet)
Dunno. Now blenders OTOH...
"What happens to a frog in a microwave?"
Do you want an answer or a picture?
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A picture, of course!
From the Department of You Think You Job is Bad....
Eeeewww!
I thought it was a rhetorical question!
Nothing good, I am sure!
(and i bet the microwave is hard to get clean afterwards!)
Here is a story about that.
Warning: Some bad language!
http://straightwhiteguy.com/archives/000482.html
I dunno, but whatever you do, don't try a turtle.:)
HAHA for Pop Rocks! I had some step kids once who loved to feed those to their dog--who, in turn, loved the Pop Rocks. Even though the dog, obviously, knew what TO expect, the dog's expression was always one of total surprise!
BTW: Microwaves--don't try to "loosen the lid of the tube of glue by putting it in the microwave for a couple of seconds." Especially if it's SUPERglue.
AND THAT was when microwaves cost 500 BUCKS!
I think I invented the "superglue" method of taking fingerprints.
Nice tagline....
And... quit with the frog/blender stuff... Ewwww!
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