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  1. Khaptain Silver badge
    Go

    Face full of tadpoles

    I suppose that arriving at the check-out desk, after having facially received a wad of wet wobblers, wouldn't have been a very subtle idea either.

    1. LarsG
      Meh

      A girl that

      A girl that won't swallow is impolite.

      Etiquette has been breached here.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Oh! —you mean *actual* tadpoles

    Being unfamiliar with the word "porwiggle" and given the general "sniggering behind the bikesheds" tone of the proceedings around these parts, I thought this story was euphemistically referring to that other liquid containing 'tadpoles' which Marc Almond would [allegedly!] have no trouble in smuggling past airport security.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Windows

      Re: Oh! —you mean *actual* tadpoles

      Ditto, then i realised this is the Reg, the bastion for all thats true in the world...

      Its why i love 'El Reg!!!

    2. Simon Harris

      Re: Oh! —you mean *actual* tadpoles

      Well, if 'porwigle' isn't a euphemism for 'that other liquid containing tadpoles', it jolly well should be!

    3. LinkOfHyrule
      Paris Hilton

      Re: Oh! —you mean *actual* tadpoles

      Me too! I was expecting this story to have been filed under "Fertility" but then again El Reg doesn't have a section for bun in the oven tech does it! I should have known!

      oops edited 'cos I cant spell "Fertility"

  3. Flocke Kroes Silver badge

    Was it a Coca Cola bottle?

    http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tadpole.asp

  4. Ketlan
    WTF?

    Why?

    Okay, WHY did she have a gob full of tadpoles? As she had a bottle of water with her, why didn't she keep them in that? We should be told!

    1. Lester Haines (Written by Reg staff) Gold badge

      Re: Why?

      I think you need to read the story again...

      1. Ketlan

        Re: Why?

        'I think you need to read the story again...'

        Okay, I read it again. And?

        1. frank ly

          Re: Why?

          Let's take it in stages: First learn to read; then read the story.

          1. Ketlan

            Re: Why?

            'Let's take it in stages: First learn to read; then read the story.'

            Don't be a dick. Just explain.

            1. Danny 14
              Go

              Re: Why?

              <sigh>

              1) airport security asked her to test the liquid in a bottle to prove it wasnt harmful by drinking it.

              2) she took a mouthful but wouldnt swallow.

              3) when she spat it out it had tadpoles in it.

              4) security let her on her way after confiscating the tadpole infested liquid.

              I assume the authorities dont examine the bottles too much they simply see liquid and ask the person to quaff it. I also assume that since moving tadpoles are quite visible in clear water the bottle was in some way opaque or the liquid was some way opaque.

              1. Ketlan
                Thumb Up

                Re: Why?

                'I think ketlan is under the mistaken impression that she was walking around with porwigle in her mouth, (like some sort of brooding cichlid), and that the bottle contained just water.'

                Precisely. Right, and thank you, Danny14. Got it now.

                I'm not always this dense you know. Only on Wednesdays (geddit).

                1. Anonymous Coward
                  Anonymous Coward

                  You are not alone :)

                  On first reading I was confused about the original location of the tadpoles as well.

            2. Lester Haines (Written by Reg staff) Gold badge

              Re: Re: Why?

              Right guys - let's keep it civilised.

              1. Simon Harris
                Happy

                Re: Why?

                Right guys - let's keep it civilised.

                Civilised? This is El Reg we're talking about here!

          2. Mako

            Re: Why?

            I think ketlan is under the mistaken impression that she was walking around with porwigle in her mouth, (like some sort of brooding cichlid), and that the bottle contained just water.

            It might be that this phrase...

            "the airline's strict no-flying-with-baby-frogs-in-your-mouth policy",

            ...is the cause of his confusion.

  5. mIRCat
    Paris Hilton

    Story of my life.

    I gave a girl tadpoles and she wouldn't even swallow.

    Paris, because she knows what to do with the young pollywogs.

  6. frank ly

    She refused because she'd just read New Scientist

    http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2013/03/mouth-breeding-frog.html

  7. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
    Joke

    She should have brought dried frog pills instead

    so she could hallucinate she was sane.

    but then she would probably be able fly without needing a plane

  8. Don Jefe
    Happy

    Doomed

    The tadpoles were dead anyway the minute they entered her mouth. They are terribly fragile creatures and extremely sensitive to changes in PH. Most people don't know that even after touching some barehanded in the wild and releasing them, apparently unharmed, they often die a few hours later.

    My wife led a large tadpole study years ago and this is the only reason I know this. I am in no way a tadpole expert.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Doomed

      I am in no way a tadpole expert.

      That's what they all say..

  9. Crisp
    Coat

    It could have been worse...

    She could have been caught with a case of crabs!

    I'm going... Mines the one with a jar of tadpoles in the pocket.

  10. Kubla Cant

    Smuggling tadpoles

    Why?

    1. Dan Beshear
      Trollface

      Re: Smuggling tadpoles

      Would you prefer that she were smuggling plums?

  11. Dave 32
    Coat

    Cane Toads

    Maybe she was an environmental terrorist who was trying to smuggle Cane Toads?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toad

    Dave

    P.S. I'll get my coat; it's the one making croaking noises.

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