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Old 06-29-2004, 02:01 PM
xo_kathy xo_kathy is offline
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Woman Gives Birth to Frog

This article comes from the BBC. I know it's not 'important', but I thought it was so odd and that GCers would appreciate it.
How in the world could it be true?!?!?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3844441.stm

Iranian woman 'gives birth to frog'

Tests are being carried out on the frog

An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman who claims to have given birth to a frog.

The Iranian daily Etemaad says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult frog inside her body.

While it is unclear how this could have happened, the paper carries quotes from medical experts who say there are human characteristics to the animal.

It has been speculated that the woman, who has not been named, unknowingly picked up the larva while she was swimming in a dirty pool.

The woman, from the south-eastern city of Iranshahr, is a mother of two children.

The "so-called frog", as the newspaper puts it, has yet to undergo precise genetic and anatomic tests.

But it quotes clinical biology expert Dr Aminifard as saying: "The similarities are in appearance, the shape of the fingers and the size and shape of the tongue."

Medical history recounts stories of people who believed they had frogs - or even lizards or snakes - living and growing in their bodies.

One of the most famous was the 17th Century case of Catharina Geisslerin, known as "the toad-vomiting woman" of Germany.

When she died in 1662 doctors are said to have performed an autopsy, but found no evidence animals had ever lived inside her body.


BBC Monitoring, based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.
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Old 06-29-2004, 02:09 PM
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This is freaking me out!
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Old 06-29-2004, 02:19 PM
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Uhmm...yeah.


Did she really?
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Old 06-29-2004, 03:11 PM
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This is freaking me out!
I second that emotion.
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Old 06-29-2004, 03:46 PM
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that's just gross
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Old 06-29-2004, 07:42 PM
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Thumbs down NOPE

http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/octopus.htm

Sorry, as hubby pointed out, baby frogs are tadpoles.
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Old 06-30-2004, 12:59 PM
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I thought the same thing - no way, different species. But I also thought it was interesting since this isn't your typical email rumor, but a story from the BBC, which many consider even more reliable than any of our media channels (CNN, Fox etc). Regradless, it's still probably just a weirdly mutated frog...

Reminds me of that show V when the woman gave birth to the alien!!!
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Old 06-30-2004, 01:00 PM
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Guess that's what happens when you kiss a frog expecting it to turn into a prince.
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Old 06-30-2004, 01:13 PM
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I thought the same thing - no way, different species. But I also thought it was interesting since this isn't your typical email rumor, but a story from the BBC, which many consider even more reliable than any of our media channels (CNN, Fox etc). Regradless, it's still probably just a weirdly mutated frog...

Reminds me of that show V when the woman gave birth to the alien!!!
Oh really? I'd like to see why the BBC is more reliable "than any of our media channels (CNN, Foc, etc)".

You'd think after their whole bias on the middle east, Israel, Iraq, the awful incident that led to the death of a man in England and resignations at the BBC people wouldn't say that.

-Rudey
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Old 06-30-2004, 01:35 PM
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He killed himself.
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Old 06-30-2004, 01:36 PM
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He killed himself.
Why?

What were the findings?

Why did the BBC people quit?

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Old 06-30-2004, 01:39 PM
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Findings were suicide.

Because he wanted to kill himself. Which he did.

The BBC people quit in case anyone said no smoke without fire. Doesn't mean someone at the BBC gave him cyanide pills.
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Old 06-30-2004, 01:40 PM
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Findings were suicide.

The BBC people quit in case anyone said no smoke without fire. Doesn't mean someone at the BBC gave him cyanide pills.
Why'd he commit suicide? Nobody said the BBC went to his apartment and stabbed him.

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Old 06-30-2004, 01:41 PM
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Only he could know that. And he is dead.

No note was left therefore there can only be pure speculation.

He committed suicide because he had mental health issues - clearly.

And had he sought professional help he may not have committed suicide. But he did not. So he did.
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Old 06-30-2004, 01:44 PM
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^LMAO
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