March 20 is World Frog Day?🌈🐸

I've already written a post about frogs and mentioning World Frog Day being March 20th, so what can I say, but -

Frogs Again?🌈🐸

I also am almost exactly midway through listening to George Eliot's novel 'Middlemarch' today and laughed when I heard Chapter 41 being read to me -

"The copy in this case bore more of outside resemblance to the mother, in whose sex frog-features, accompanied with fresh-colored cheeks and a well-rounded figure, are compatible with much charm for a certain order of admirers. The result is sometimes a frog-faced male, desirable, surely, to no order of intelligent beings. Especially when he is suddenly brought into evidence to frustrate other people's expectations—the very lowest aspect in which a social superfluity can present himself."

"But Mr. Rigg Featherstone's low characteristics were all of the sober, water-drinking kind. From the earliest to the latest hour of the day he was always as sleek, neat, and cool as the frog he resembled, and old Peter had secretly chuckled over an offshoot almost more calculating, and far more imperturbable, than himself."

What's a Bloke Like George Eliot Got to Do with International Women's Day?📚🐇

It's probably not much easier being blue either, I guess?

A Queensland man has set the internet abuzz after a video of him cooking and eating a cane toad went viral.

WARNING: Graphic content

Toadzilla to Join Other Giant Cane Toads at Queensland Museum?🐸

UPDATE: March 21st, 2023

I had to laugh when I heard chapter 46 being read of 'Middlemarch' last night after writing the above post and heard that a guy named Keck was the editor of 'The Trumpet';-)

Kek (mythology)

Chaos Magick?

"Brooke has taken him up," said Mr. Hawley, "because that is what no man in his senses could have expected. Casaubon has devilish good reasons, you may be sure, for turning the cold shoulder on a young fellow whose bringing-up he paid for. Just like Brooke—one of those fellows who would praise a cat to sell a horse."

And some oddities of Will's, more or less poetical, appeared to support Mr. Keck, the editor of the "Trumpet," in asserting that Ladislaw, if the truth were known, was not only a Polish emissary but crack-brained, which accounted for the preternatural quickness and glibness of his speech when he got on to a platform—as he did whenever he had an opportunity, speaking with a facility which cast reflections on solid Englishmen generally. It was disgusting to Keck to see a strip of a fellow, with light curls round his head, get up and speechify by the hour against institutions "which had existed when he was in his cradle." And in a leading article of the "Trumpet," Keck characterized Ladislaw's speech at a Reform meeting as "the violence of an energumen—a miserable effort to shroud in the brilliancy of fireworks the daring of irresponsible statements and the poverty of a knowledge which was of the cheapest and most recent description."

"That was a rattling article yesterday, Keck," said Dr. Sprague, with sarcastic intentions. "But what is an energumen?"

"Oh, a term that came up in the French Revolution," said Keck."

UPDATE: March 24th, 2023

Agent gifts rejected homebuyer a
scratchie after they missed out on home

I saw this letter above in the news today where a frog scratch-it was gifted by a real estate agent on March 21st, 2023 (the day after World Frog Day) to an unlucky client:-)