And it wouldn’t be polite to refer to the French as “Toads”. 
…and who would ever want to play Leap Toad?..
Slan,
D.
Or eat Frog in the Hole?
never heard of frog in the hole either…in any case, that thing does not look very appetizing..
Well, it’s really called Toad in the Hole, so I was attempting to continue on the joke----which now I’m not sure I did.
It’s sausages and Yorkshire pudding and onions and gravy and it looks good to me----you should see the leftovers we’re havin’ for lunch today. 
Just a comment on how on top of things the Spokane newspaper is - NOT! 
In today’s Spokesman Review newspaper - May 1 - they finally printed the stories about the exploding toads and the ivory-billed woodpecker - which you folks posted on here several days ago.
But it still felt good to sit down and read the Sunday paper after participating in Spokane’s Bloomsday run/walk this morning. Took us 2 hours 25 minutes to walk 12K (7.6 miles). It was a beautiful day for it - temperatures in the high 40s to start, about 60 by the time we finished, sunshine, and a light breeze.
I thought it was funny…
Amar’s strictly a steak kind of guy 
Slan,
D.
Thanks. I’ll take a laugh anywhere I can get it.
It sounds as though the problem with the toads has not been figured out yet:
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050425/full/050425-13.html
Oh, dubhlinn, yoo hoo!
Ummm, although it is true that I will take a laugh anywhere I can get it, it did occur to me later this evening, as I was carefully going over my myriad interactions on C&F today, that I was somewhat less than gracious in accepting your courtesy; indeed, that I had in fact sounded as though a laugh from you was better than nothing, but not much.
Obviously, a person could only be greatly honored by receiving a laugh from a person endowed with a wit as incisive as yours and I do, as I should, feel specially blessed.
“I really think someone needs to go back and check the primary source,” comments Barry Clarke, a herpetologist at the Natural History Museum in London. “I’ve learnt never to say with animals that anything is impossible. But the idea of exploding toads - well let’s face it, it’s pythonesque.”
Pythonesque! It is!
did ye hear that dub? you are endowed…
stupid me, what i really wanted to write was that i’d never heard of toad in the hole! i sort of messed up my own post.
hey, don’t forget, i love haggis..
You know that did occur to me a little later in the day----that for someone who eats haggis you seemed darn picky about what your food looks like! 