I recently learned that Tony's Bar, the "largest navigational hazard" in Kodiak, hosts an annual frog jumping competition. Each year the theme is the "Best Picture" Academy Award Winner. I have seen shirts around town with last year's slogan: "No Country for Old Frogs," and have been very confused. Mystery solved...
Apparently the frogs are flown up from Texas for the event, which takes place during the Kodiak Crab Festival. You can purchase your frog for $20, which actually seems like a fairly good deal, considering that lemons cost $2.49 right now at the store and don't carry the limitless possibility of financial return that a championship jumper presents.
Image from nppa.org
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Um, I don't know if you meant this post to please me especially, but you might recall that I was the St. John's FunFest grand champion frog jumper at age four with my cannibalistic frog Wilbur the Whopper (caught out at the Springs golf course with another frog hanging out of his mouth).
Anyway, thank you.
I believe you can reserve your frog now down at Tony's. Last year I had the strategy of keeping my frog in my shirt pocket to warm him up (he was still in his paper cup). But he must have been too relaxed, because he did not jump at all. Someone told me dripping a little cold water on them just before the race gets them going. Another t-shirt favorite: "Brokeback Frog." Sadly, more or less, the frogs give their all for the event.... State law requires the frogs be humanely put down afterwards so they don't get loose in the wild and overrun the island, killing us all. Or something.
I think that the frogs should be fried up for a post-competition meal, sustainable Kodiak-style...
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