Post title... hmmm... oh, how about FROG MARCH?

October 3, 2003 8:22 AM

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posted by soyjoy (30 comments total)

March?
posted by jazon at 8:28 AM on October 3, 2003

marsh frog
posted by jonvaughan at 8:35 AM on October 3, 2003

jonvaughan: I can write stories better than your kids.
posted by soyjoy at 8:42 AM on October 3, 2003

Frog Morton?

Frogmorton!
posted by jammer at 8:45 AM on October 3, 2003

I think the 8th link is actually a Frog Song & Dance.
posted by dobbs at 8:46 AM on October 3, 2003

And the point was....?
posted by skylar at 8:49 AM on October 3, 2003

At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get soyjoy frog-marched into metaTak in handcuffs. And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words.
posted by y6y6y6 at 8:54 AM on October 3, 2003

I trusst wee can get y6y6y6 frogmocked for his spilling errros, to.
posted by y2karl at 9:00 AM on October 3, 2003

Oh no! I've been metaTaked!
posted by soyjoy at 9:02 AM on October 3, 2003

ribbit. ribbit. ribbit. ribbit. ribbit. ribbit. ribbit. ribbit.
posted by ZachsMind at 9:02 AM on October 3, 2003

And, because it has to be done: PIKE!
posted by jammer at 9:12 AM on October 3, 2003

frogpond
posted by Ms.JaneDoe at 9:22 AM on October 3, 2003

Wow, that's a lot of trouble to go to for such a weak joke.
posted by jjg at 9:24 AM on October 3, 2003

And, because it has to be done: PIKE!

Frog Pike?
posted by snarkywench at 9:28 AM on October 3, 2003

Frogstomp.
posted by eastlakestandard at 9:31 AM on October 3, 2003

Kermit the frog is co-hosting a late night tv show, do you watch it, soyjoy? :P(heard frogs mentioned many times yesterday)

Add my buddy has Pacman Frog which he feeds rodents.

At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get soyjoy frog-marched into metaTak in handcuffs. And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words.

This post has a point, found the link, ribit...: But where does the frog part come in? Would you be forced to hop? Does this have something to do with the French?
Let's go to the dictionary. The first recorded usage -- from a British newspaper in 1871, according to the Oxford English Dictionary -- doesn't help much: "They did not give the defendant the 'Frog's March.' " You gather the defendant was lucky.
Later uses clarify the meaning: It's slang for "the method of carrying a drunken or refractory prisoner face downwards between four men, each holding a limb," says the OED. The prisoner or the drunk "was thought to look like a frog," says Jesse Sheidlower, principal North American editor for the OED.

But that meaning quickly got superseded by the more modern sense: "To grasp by the arm and force to walk along," according to Webster's New World College Dictionary, which also says the expression is chiefly a British colloquialism.

At the end of the day it's of keen interest to me to to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs.
posted by thomcatspike at 9:42 AM on October 3, 2003

i said a hip hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop
posted by badstone at 9:45 AM on October 3, 2003

Frog Design!
posted by Mick at 9:51 AM on October 3, 2003

Frog Mulch?
posted by soyjoy at 10:52 AM on October 3, 2003

Goose-Step?
posted by Robot Johnny at 11:01 AM on October 3, 2003

Froggy?
posted by eastlakestandard at 11:15 AM on October 3, 2003

Sitting on this barstool talking like a damn fool
Got the twelve o'clock news blues
And I've given up hope on the afternoon soaps
And a bottle of cold brew
Is it any wonder I'm not crazy? Is it any wonder I'm sane at all
Well I'm so tired of losing- I got nothing to do and all day to do it
I go out cruisin' but I've no place to go and all night to get there
Is it any wonder I'm not a criminal?
Is it any wonder I'm not in jail?
Is it any wonder I've got

Too much time on my hands, it's ticking away with my sanity
I've got too much time on my hands, it's hard to believe such a calamity
I've got too much time on my hands and it's ticking away from me
Too much time on my hands, too much time on my hands
Too much time on my hands

Well, I'm a jet fuel genius - I can solve the world's problems
Without even trying
I have dozens of friends and the fun never ends
That is, as long as I'm buying
Is it any wonder I'm not the president
(He's not the president)
Is it any wonder I'm null and void?
Is it any wonder I've got

Too much time on my hands, it's ticking away at my sanity
I've got too much time on my hands, it's hard to believe such a calamity
I've got too much time on my hands and it's ticking away from me
Too much time on my hands, too much time on my hands
Too much time on my hands
posted by nyxxxx at 12:27 PM on October 3, 2003

ok, Dennis.
posted by goethean at 1:54 PM on October 3, 2003

Hey, who's making me click through all those links?

LOL.
posted by alicesshoe at 2:34 PM on October 3, 2003

Actually it was Tommy Shaw, not Dennis Deyoung.
posted by nyxxxx at 3:09 PM on October 3, 2003

(sigh) I wish that I had something creative, humorous, or insightful to add to this thread.
posted by davidmsc at 4:30 PM on October 3, 2003

Froggie love Daddy? Daddy love Froggie. Ribbit. Ribbit. (popups)
posted by jokeefe at 5:42 PM on October 3, 2003

She wants the frog with the croaker sack, so jump back
polly gets what polly-wogs, the frog with the biggest log
What’s my name fool
posted by pekar wood at 9:16 PM on October 3, 2003

After all, Life begins at the hop.
posted by soyjoy at 9:45 PM on October 3, 2003

Frog rain.
posted by OneSmartMonkey at 9:20 AM on October 6, 2003