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What's this? Frogs shooting frogs?

Obviously putting up more of a battle on this one than the weak mongrels ever did in any war!

1 posted on 08/21/2005 11:18:24 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher; Clemenza

You can't make this up.


2 posted on 08/21/2005 11:20:36 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Green on green engagement. Friendly fire. You name it.

I expect they will fail.

A hasty surrender might help.


3 posted on 08/21/2005 11:21:23 PM PDT by sine_nomine (Protect the weakest of the weak - the unborn babies.)
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Send them some Cane Toads, to get rid of the bullfrogs... ;^)


4 posted on 08/21/2005 11:21:47 PM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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the Frenchies are maroons.

5 posted on 08/21/2005 11:22:12 PM PDT by Old Seadog (Whether you're rich or poor....it's nice to have money.)
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Oh, no, not another office pool. OK, I got French surrender in 23 days, 6 hours, 3 minutes. Twenny buckadingdongs. Come on, puh-LEEZE somebody drop a C-note on the French or the pot's gonna be empty...


6 posted on 08/21/2005 11:22:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Why bother? They're just gonna surrender in a week or two anyway.


7 posted on 08/21/2005 11:23:38 PM PDT by Nipplemancer (Abolish the DEA !)
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RIB-IT!!!
9 posted on 08/21/2005 11:30:23 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Qui Nhon Turtle Co.)
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This senseless cycle of Frog-on-frog violence must stop!


10 posted on 08/21/2005 11:31:23 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Idiots and the Internet don't mix, no matter how hard Michael Moore tries.)
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Why to I have this vision of hundreds of Bull Frogs marching in to Paris under the l'Arc de Triomphe?


12 posted on 08/21/2005 11:33:13 PM PDT by tophat9000
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Only a frenchman would go jacklighting frogs and then not eat 'em. Stick to snails you pollywogs!


14 posted on 08/21/2005 11:39:49 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (God save us from the fury of the do-gooders!)
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These French are not very smart!

They need YEARS to work out an eradication plan?

Dummies, all they have to do is put a nominal bounty on Bull Frog carcass, but allow the hind legs to be kept for eating.
Of course paying French kids a few Franc's per frog would not make these "Ecologist" so wealthy as the current ineffectual scheme does.

The proper way to harvest frogs is with a Gig, similar to a small barbed pitch fork. Much safer than shooting them!

For sporting amusement you can even catch them with dry flies and a fishing pole.


16 posted on 08/21/2005 11:53:08 PM PDT by Richard-SIA ("The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" JEFFERSON)
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This story reminds me... my kids caught 5 tree frogs today and had them in a paper cup that tipped over in the car on the way home from church. By the time the tipped over cup was noticed only one frog could be found. A thorough search was conducted in vain. 4 treefrogs will eventually be discovered, mummified, somewhere in the station wagon. Maybe I should call my neighbor over to search, too. He's French....


17 posted on 08/21/2005 11:54:19 PM PDT by freebilly (Go Manitowoc Bandits!)
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Hell, even our frogs kick their butt...

18 posted on 08/21/2005 11:58:44 PM PDT by Khurkris (Ain't life funny?)
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Let's see, the bullfrogs lay about 25,000 eggs annually, and the frog-hunters have managed to shoot 120 of them in five hunts over 11 months. Factoring in these frogs having few natural predators, even a mathematically-challenged brain such as mine can figure out who's going to win.

The French are always underestimating the Americans, even our bullfrogs.


19 posted on 08/22/2005 12:00:29 AM PDT by skr
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"Invaders from the United States...are threatening the local ecosystem."

It's Bush's fault!

21 posted on 08/22/2005 12:14:46 AM PDT by endthematrix ("an ominous vacancy"...I mean, JOHN ROBERTS now fills this space!)
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Cry Ribbit! and let slip the frogs of war!
22 posted on 08/22/2005 12:20:41 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Even Tom Cruise would recommend that Cindy Sheehan take a Paxil." --PBRSTREETGANG)
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They have virtually no predators

They tried cats?

24 posted on 08/22/2005 12:25:17 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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.22 calibre rifle equipped with a telescopic sight and a silencer...

Never fired, only dropped once...

26 posted on 08/22/2005 12:45:47 AM PDT by BikerTrash (Enough already with the carnival freak show...bring back COOL!)
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Perhaps the French simply need a recipe:

Succulent Frog Legs

8 - 10 bullfrog legs
4 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 clove minced garlic

Add lemon juice to bowl of water and soak frog legs several hours. Add olive oil to skillet. Pat dry frog legs with a paper towel and place in skillet. Cook over medium heat turning once after undersides are golden brown. Sprinkle diced chives over frog legs. Add 2 tablespoons of cooking wine to oil. Cover and steam several minutes until golden brown. Serves three to four people.

Courtesy our good ol' down-home Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife

27 posted on 08/22/2005 2:14:53 AM PDT by Aracelis
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They have virtually no predators, and each lay up to 25,000 eggs a year, against 10,000 laid by the local frogs.

"We carried out five hunts between September last year and this July, killing about 120 of them," Detaint said.

Virtually no predators, 25,000 eggs a year, averaging 21 frogs per hunt – I’m not really buying “The ecologists say they a full-scale eradication programme should be in place by 2007, and hope to fully eliminate the bullfrogs in five or 10 years” without the entire French Army being involved.
29 posted on 08/22/2005 3:02:05 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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