French Frogs
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The French are said to laugh like frogs. When they laugh, their adam's apples bulge out of their necks like frogs. Also perhaps from the French delicacy of frog-legs. Another possible derivation is the Fleur-de-Lys displayed on the French king's banner in the Middle Ages, which, to the English enemy, looked like squatting frogs. In World War II, the French soldiers were pretty good at hiding from the German soldiers with all their camouflage they evidently looked like frogs. When the German soldiers tried to find them they said 'Darn those Frenchmen, we can't find them anywhere.' Again that is where the term French Frogs came from. Frog's Home Page Hic Locutus Est Veritatem Hi ho, and welcome to Fr. Brought to you by all the conservative and self-reliant creatures of the AZ mountain plains.
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