Morning notes

[hummingwolf]

This is how my brain works: Last night in chat, DC mentioned something about Pork Riblets. After asking if "Riblets" was a brand name, I babbled on about the word making me think of ribs and ribbits (frog sounds) at the same time, which got me trying to remember if frogs have ribs (forgive me, this was late at night and my memory was halfway to sleep). So after trying to remember something about the 10th-grade frog dissection other than the fact that our group's frog's brains were insufficiently scrambled and it kept trying to crawl out of the bag it was stored in, I grabbed the Franco to Goethals volume of the encyclopedia off the shelf and found myself looking at drawings of froggie vertebrae until I spied the label for the frog's Achilles tendon, which set me off thinking about what an amphibian Trojan war would be like. What ruse would Greek frogs use to get inside the city? Frogs tend not to ride horses into battle, you know. DC was a bit nonplussed when I told him he had to come up with an answer before I could go to bed or I'd be lying awake all night wondering about different wooden devices to be hidden in. Finally he came up with wooden lilypads (too flat), wooden flies, and wooden toadstools. Anybody else have other ideas?

In other news: Walked over three miles two days in a row. Amazingly still feeling capable of walking this morning, in spite of getting too little sleep. Hooray!

Comments

Re: The Anuran Wars

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Of course you're overthinking it! Isn't that also a large part of your charm? :-)

Trojan duck sounds adorable! Though I'm partial to the idea a Trojan turtle--turtles are also found in ponds, plus they're something I could see frogs riding into battle like humans ride horses. Heck, I'd certainly be scared if I saw enemy troops coming at me on snapping turtles.

Re: The Anuran Wars

[icdedpeople.livejournal.com]

I was actually a bit envious of the turtle idea. I forced myself to come up with an idea of my own before looking at the current suggestions. But the turtle definitely has the benefit of making sense both outside the pond (city) and within.

I used to imagine a little Pondworld when I was little. My frog alter ego would have had more adventures in it if I could have figured out what was happening in that world. :-) I couldn't think of anything.