Geek Habitat

I collect frogs. Not real ones, mind you, but stuffed animal frogs, frog art, frog photos, frog “stuff”. I didn’t start out with an intent to collect frogs, but having a frog calendar in my cube brought about an 18-inch neon orange frog, which brought about various frogs gifted to me over the course of my employ. By the time I left, I had something like a dozen different frogs to bring home… and if you remember your high school biology, frogs reproduce just about as readily as rabbits, so, well… I have an even larger frog collection now.

And then I go and buy a Ford Escape Hybrid, which if you watched the Superbowl commercials this year, had Kermit The Frog as its official “spokesfrog” — “Maybe it is easy being green!”

So, yeah, I’ve been looking for Kermit the Frog merchandise although nothing has leapt (snort!) out at me yet. For the time being, all I have is a 3-inch-tall felt Kermit pencil topper that I bought at the workplace Starbucks some years’ back (in a pure moment of weakness, I tell you! Uhm… I also bought the matching Beaker! )

And in Dallas, I bought an insanely soft frog that’s taller than my 2-year-old niece and, after making the mistake of letting her hug him (kid-speak for “Have him, he’s yours!”) we coaxed her to “put him back to bed, in his bag” at which point I whisked him away to our car. If I were a grown-up, I’d have given the frog to her then and there… (Jason & Karen, don’t be surprised if you get an oddly shaped, absurdly light, package in the mail one day! Hehe)

So, all of this leads up to the impetus for this posting. I’m surfing Amazon, which has surprising little in the way of Kermit merchandise, and I decide to search for “frog” instead.
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And this rather sad, very strange creature is what I find… yikes!

He definitely has personality, but he really looks like he needs to be treated ASAP by a veterinarian!