Wandering Thoughts: June 2012

I love posts where the comments surpass the original post in humor.
On the Reddit boards a user named Sordidkitteh posted a picture of a hailstone with a frog in the middle of it.

Another user, named Ploddle asked "How" and a third user, ForgettableUsername answered, starting a string of comments from various other users that had me laughing to tears.

Here is the original picture:

Ploddle

HOW?

ForgettableUsername

This is actually a pretty well-understood phenomenon.

VFAGB

You've glossed over the whole "airborne frogs" part.

ForgettableUsername

I'm sorry if I was unclear; I tend to get carried off on tangents.

Numlocks

HOW DO FROGS GET IN THE SKY?

ForgettableUsername

That's a bit like asking 'how do fish get into the Atlantic?' isn't it? Either they're born there or they migrate to it, depending on the species of frog and the time of year. I won't bore you with the details.

SirFadakar

You're telling us frogs are born in or migrate to... the sky?

ForgettableUsername

Well, yes, obviously. That's how biology works. You shouldn't need a herpetologist to tell you that if you observe a population of frogs in any given region, it stands to reason that either they are from that region or they migrated to it at some point.