Mando Frog

**Django Fret** · Sep-08-2003, 7:26am

If I'm not mistaken, this one is playing an old 4-string Fender Mandocaster electric mandolin.

**OdnamNool** · Sep-09-2003, 6:15am

I'm finding much digit discrepency in frog feet. What's the low-down? How many toes?

**Django Fret** · Sep-09-2003, 11:26am

Good point Odnam, since this charming couple have four and not three like the other one.

**jasona** · Sep-10-2003, 12:38am

real frogs have three or four fingers and five toes

**bratsche** · Sep-10-2003, 1:10am

...and real mandolins have 8 strings. Stylized ones can have any number their creators choose to put on them, just like the "fingers" and toes on stylized frogs.

There is a relief pitcher for the Cubs, Antonio Alfonseca, who has 6 fingers on each hand.

bratsche

**OdnamNool** · Sep-10-2003, 6:37am

Frog discourse inevitably leaps to phrogosophical discussions... It's just a part of their enchanting nature... "Antonio" is a "real" pitcher, is he not?

**Django Fret** · Sep-10-2003, 7:19am

Yes, Odnam there really is such a person and you can read more about him at:
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/basebal....nio.stm

bratsche, apparently Antonio has more than just additional fingers. According to that Web page:

"Alfonseca was born with six fingers and toes on each hand and foot, an oddity that led his teammates to nickname him "Pulpo" -- Spanish for octopus"

I wonder if he also plays the mandolin? I bet that he would be able to do some unusual chords and interesting fingerpicking.

**bratsche** · Sep-10-2003, 10:00am

Yes, the existence of Antonio is an indisputable fact; however, whether or not he is a "real pitcher" is a subject of much debate among Cubs fans...

Kidding aside, his extra fingers would be little help to him in any musical endeavors, I'm afraid, as they are just sort of abbreviated or rudimentary appendages that just, well, hang there. I read somewhere that this is a fairly common occurrence, but not seen much in America because any such "abnormality" is corrected surgically right after birth. Polydactyl cats (for another example) are certainly quite common.

There was a girl in my junior high school who had webbed toes just like a frog.

bratsche

**Django Fret** · Sep-10-2003, 7:20pm

Originally Posted by (bratsche @ Sep. 10 2003, 11:00)

There was a girl in my junior high school who had webbed toes just like a frog.

Very, very #interesting...kinda reminds me of a b@#*o player I once knew.

**OdnamNool** · Sep-13-2003, 5:55am

Very, very interesting indeed... Why, that b@?#o player is 6 fingered! #(if I'm not mistakin'...) #And by golly... he's emerging from [i]water[/i Yikes! #It's a b@#j0 frog!!!

**OdnamNool** · Sep-13-2003, 6:05am

A six-fingered B@#*o frog!!! ???

**OdnamNool** · Sep-13-2003, 6:11am

Emoticons not working. Lightbulb not working... Maybe I'm under serveilance... (I have no idea how to spell that word...) Have a wonderful weekend, y'all!

**Django Fret** · Sep-17-2003, 5:56pm

I think that this one is playing either a mandolinetto, a Crafter, an Ovation, or a very small guitar.

**OdnamNool** · Sep-22-2003, 6:09am

It's good
To touch
The green, green lillypads
Of home...

(I think it's a small guitar.)

**Django Fret** · Sep-22-2003, 10:13pm

Listed as a Frog Mandoln pencil sharpener, I think this one is playing a dulcimer!

**OdnamNool** · Sep-23-2003, 4:13am

Nice shoes. But I think he'd have a hard time playing fingerless...

**OdnamNool** · Sep-23-2003, 6:25am

I certainly wouldn't kick him out of the pond...

**Eugene** · Sep-23-2003, 12:00pm

My money's on pipa or biwa for this latest venture into chordophonic herpetology...Although the fingerless thing would better lend itself to dulcimer technique. Maybe he/she could borrow a digit or two from that banjo player.

**OdnamNool** · Sep-26-2003, 2:50am

Astute amphibian frobservation, Eugene.

**Django Fret** · Sep-26-2003, 7:18am

For yet another venture into chordophonic herpetology, it looks to me like these frogs have an uncanny resemblance to green beluga whales.

It does look like this one is playing a banjo, so I'm wondering if that has anything to do with their appearance?

**Eugene** · Sep-26-2003, 10:41am

Come to think of it, every decent banjo player I've known has had a lime-green, grotesquely hypertrophied melon!

**OdnamNool** · Sep-27-2003, 6:57am

Shocking! #Really? #All of a sudden I feel attracted to decent banjo players! #But... lime-green??? #Ick!!! #On second thought, maybe not... Seriously, now...those frogs are cute. #Quit makin' fun of them, Django. #You make it sound as if banjo playing will turn a whale green. #Also... just what is that nice lady-frog cookin' up?