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ThomasF, I don't know but I
don't think it works for frogs. Frogs are cool though. I have a whole tree frog family that live in my backyard. Oh, and a bullfrog named well, what else? Jeremiah.
posted by
SpitFire70
on February 2, 2005 at 5:32 PM
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How about croaking frogs-any hidden meaning here or little known fact?
posted by
ThomasFranklin
on February 2, 2005 at 5:10 PM
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Oh, Whammie. Great minds think alike!!
Been there, done that, still doing that!! (Accept I'm not blonde, but it still works for me!!)
posted by
SpitFire70
on January 30, 2005 at 1:21 PM
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SPITFIRE,
This is another example of when I would give a blank stare and say to a man, "Oooh, could you do it for me?"
And he would get his ego fed, helping the poor dumb blonde, and I would thank him and tell him: "Thank you soooooo much! You are soooooooo smart!!!!! You have a very large brain!!!!!" And I got him to do my work for me, and to feel good about doing it. LOL (Refer to my recent comment to beachbelle for further info).
posted by
WHAMENATOR
on January 30, 2005 at 12:46 PM
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I love it, SpitFire!
But my attention span and ability to multitask will prohibit me from being able to both count to 5 and count the chirps at the same time. And then there is math involved, too?
posted by
WHAMENATOR
on January 30, 2005 at 12:43 PM
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You're welcome, Symph.
Leave it to me to bring you strange and unusual facts and bullshit!
posted by
SpitFire70
on January 30, 2005 at 12:32 PM
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Jems,
YES! Can I blame the memory loss on the fairies, too? I never thought about that!
posted by
SpitFire70
on January 30, 2005 at 12:31 PM
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Tapsel, that's right!
I forgot that it's winter. Sometimes I forget living in Florida. Oooo, that was cruel, wasn't it?
posted by
SpitFire70
on January 30, 2005 at 12:30 PM
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Rach,
Locus are just plain weird anyway so that doesn't surprise me!
posted by
SpitFire70
on January 30, 2005 at 12:29 PM
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JJ,
You're always welcome! I am a sucker for stupid trivia and weird facts like that.
posted by
SpitFire70
on January 30, 2005 at 12:28 PM
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wow thats pretty cool to know...thanks
posted by
_Symphony_
on January 30, 2005 at 7:30 AM
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I read that somewhere
Can't remember which book I read it in, though.
And useless info isn't keeping you from remembering where you put your cars keys. We've already determined that the faerie folk take them!
Perhaps they also take some of your brain too!
posted by
Jemmie211
on January 30, 2005 at 1:40 AM
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Spitfire - I hope I can remember that formula the next time I hear a cricket. I haven't heard any since the beginning of the ice and snow.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 29, 2005 at 11:14 PM
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The same is true for certain types of locusts...
Well, they chirp (or do whatever it is they do) when the temperature flucuates by more than five degrees or something like that...
posted by
RachelAnna
on January 29, 2005 at 10:27 PM
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Yes, it is true,
I read about it in some biology book or something like that. I tried it once, and it worked, but I immediately forgot the numbers. Thank you for being so nice as to tell me things that I want to hear.
JJ
posted by
Jack_Flash
on January 29, 2005 at 6:26 PM
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