Iranian woman 'gives birth to frog'

BBC ^ | 27 June, 2004

[traumer]

An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman who claims to have given birth to a frog. The Iranian daily Etemaad says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult frog inside her body.

While it is unclear how this could have happened, the paper carries quotes from medical experts who say there are human characteristics to the animal.

It has been speculated that the woman, who has not been named, unknowingly picked up the larva while she was swimming in a dirty pool.

The woman, from the south-eastern city of Iranshahr, is a mother of two children.

The "so-called frog", as the newspaper puts it, has yet to undergo precise genetic and anatomic tests.

But it quotes clinical biology expert Dr Aminifard as saying: "The similarities are in appearance, the shape of the fingers and the size and shape of the tongue."

Medical history recounts stories of people who believed they had frogs - or even lizards or snakes - living and growing in their bodies.

One of the most famous was the 17th Century case of Catharina Geisslerin, known as "the toad-vomiting woman" of Germany.

When she died in 1662 doctors are said to have performed an autopsy, but found no evidence animals had ever lived inside her body.

[Lady Jag]

"Can't talk now. I'm stuck at home with pollywogs!"

[BobS]

I'm not dark meat. The sun makes me brown very quickly. Within a day you can see a difference.

"What's with the radar crawl, you get a charge out of that?"

I love it, because it is complex. There are 3 mathematical and physics functions to keep in mind while boresighting a missile radar.

[Lady Jag]

You aim them? Calibrate tracking? I'm NRA and trying to relate "boresighti; I'm mean, you're talking about parabolas and stuff here, right?

[Straight Vermonter]

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Muhammad reborn! Allahu akbar.

[BobS]

No. Aiming a gun at a target is very easy. Aiming a missile radar requires knowledge about boresight shift over frequency and temp. Null depth between azimuth and elevation channels of the radar. RF gain prior to the preamp is very imortant due to weak signals through bad weather if circular polarization is inoperative. Interesting job. Want one? I need help!

Or just a little date?:):)

[Lady Jag]

Oh, more like a telescope with more radio?

I was looking at some photos the other day and one showed four separate structures that look like skateboard ramps turned up on the fat end. The tag said it was part of an abandoned radar installation. If so, what was their purpose?

[clamper1797]

Those Damned French

[BobS]

That was most likely a low frequency radar. You must remember- the higher the frequency of the carrier wave, the shorter the wavelength, and the smaller the cross-section of the antenna. The modulation doesn't matter. The carrier wave freq is the only determinant.

[Thumper1960]

"Ma-ma"


Miss Piggy FINALLY bedded Kermie!!!

[bitt]

'She registered at Petco.'

you made me giggle.

[Slings and Arrows]

I don't think she was ready for motherhood.

[Aquinasfan]

this backs up something Mark Steyn pointed out a few months ago; people in the Arab world believe all kinds of wacky things.

I wonder if this could be explained by the fact that they believe that Allah wills both good and evil. If that were true, then anything really could happen.

[NordP]

LOLOLOLOL - FABulous Post!!!!!

[dangus]

OMG... He looks just like Ted Kennedy!!!
ROTFL!

[MeekOneGOP]

Chirac's baby ???

How'd I miss this ? I just saw this on Brit Hume's Special Report .....

[Happy2BMe]

It could be Chriacs I guess. Kerry doesn't claim any french does he?

[MeekOneGOP]

haha! Jean Keri ????

[YaYa123]

This is such a funny thread! Slow scrolling highly recommended.

[Drive-In Ray]

I just saw a movie about this - FROG-G-G!. Who says truth is stranger than fiction!