This frog-marched frog cannot remain nameless.
We need some more suggestions for names.
Then we’ll have a poll.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Perhaps Karl is too obvious?
Karl is fine with me
the man President Bush affectionately calls “Turdblossom”
Kaiser Karl
I like Rovitt from upthread…has it all, but not too in your face
Carnacki suggested Jeremiah.
Now Kermit is the treefrog, right?
But no way am I naming him Kermit.
There would be a nice obtuse reference to Kermit Roosevelt, scion of T.R. and grandfather of interventionist intelligence apparatus.
You are right that Kermit does look more like a tree frog than a bull frog or other semi-aquatic species.
Karl is good.
Jeremiah is not only famous from the song, but an Old Testament prophet of doom. Think it fits.
song…I like the idea.
Prescott? ummm…Prescott Bush? I vote no on that one.
Ribbits
ribbits.
pretty good.
Well as frog-marched is considered french in some cases you could call him Jacques(sp) or Jack I guess.
Freedom Frog?
Freedom?
Liberté?
Frenchy?
‘Freedom Frog’ got my attention.
I could live with any of those suggestions. I kinda like freedom frog though myself.
Karl, the Freedom Frog?
Henri LeFrog, or Hank for short.
As Jacques is my first name (my second is not Chirac!), I second that warmly.
help me promote it by going to Kos and recommending my diary that introduces the site.
Thanks.
Unfortunately, I can’t. Still having a DNS problem. Will do later.
Then again I’m having a good time here this morning. So it may take me a while to get back over to recommend
but there is a message that ‘it is too late to recommend this diary.
Buzz
Phrog? Big Blue (ala Peter Paul & Mary)?
Kermit the Rove, y’all.
So, what’s my user ID now?
Where’d you get the cool frog graphic, anyway?
Neat site … I’m looking forward to reading & posting.
was drawn by a very good friend of mine over many beers.
The idea behind the frog was my wife’s, also over many beers (different night).
She said, “We can’t rest until they’re frog-marched out!”
And I said, “Damn, now that’s a creed to live by.”
Karl is pretty obvious but at the same time it just seems sort of right… Timrek (as in Kermit’s evil twin) also occurred to me.
or in honor of joe wilson we could name the frog joe or wilson.
or brooksie? or, seeing that he’s already cuffed and a reptile, how about novak?
Either Travis for TX Travis county DA Ronnie somethingorother who said “Being called partisan and vindictive by Tom DeLay is like being called ugly by a frog. Or as Jerome suggests “Frenchy”.
How about Boomit. I always liked Kermit as a character and the picture reminds me somewhat of him. But as he is your frog, this name would include the best of both.
How about just BOOM (hmmm, think I’ve got any aggressive feelings tonight?)
I vote for simply Boo. You got Booman; you got Boofrog.
And of course, as everybody knows — (all together now):
Jeremiah was a Boofrog!
I’d hate to saddle the little jasper with ‘Karl’. Really just too odious.
What about something a bit more jolly like Zippy?
Or Rupert. Or Legs.
Bubbles
Mr. Pickle
Darwin
Fidel
Demosthenes (now yer talkin’!)
Frog formerly known as Prince (FFKAP)
For some reason Darwin stikes my fancy. With the underlying idea of evolution which means change and blogs seem to evolve organically themselves.
Darwin. I like that one because what’s happening in Washington is definitely a devolution of democracy.
it would be niwrad?
ummm…no…it would be Darwin, to promote evolution once again. 🙂
thanks, like I said Darwin somehow strikes chord with me for no apparent reason but like your take also.
Darwin J.(for joe wilson re his ‘frog marched outa there about Rove)Frog.
I like that. 🙂
How about “Title 50, Chapter 15, Section 421” or “Scooter”, for short?
http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/usc_sec_50_00000421—-000-.html
I like Twain….
or…Dan’l Webster….
or Smiley……
or…Artemus
All these are related to “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
Brog
I like Brog… but, who cares what I think.
I like Karl. I’ll also suggest Bad Frog.
who is so ethically challenged.
Tom the Toad
Rovitt
why does the link above(Way up top, with diary title) send me to the NY Times member page? Is that where it’s supposed to send people?
William Safire ‘On Language’ column. You can register using User name:dailykos password:dailykos. I think.
Or using Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal used to work.
check it out..I am a member of NY Times on line. I dumped my home subscription last year when they slammed Bloggers on their front page. However I just can’t stay away from Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd. btw/ have you checked the suggestion box?
Prince
The Frog formally know as Prince
love it….that’s FUNNY
someone to make a mockup of the Frog’s symbol, that has replaced his name.
and would all of us wear that symbol on our faces also?
“The frog formally known as Prince” would be great sub-name. The frog still would benefit from a short catchy name (e.g. Rovitt: the frog formally known as Prince).
Meet Jeremiah, who lived in my pond. He was huge.
Rovitt is pretty good.
Hal Burton
K. Brown Root
Pug (for Winokur)
DeLay
nm
Halle B. Frog
Gotta certain frog-like evil resonance to it.
I like Scoop. Or Scoopa
how about Jean Frog Van Damme?
Andy
Sarasota
Kwax-kwax
Batrah-batrah
Toady rovie
Frogblossom
Karlit
Karlito
evoked Boutros-Boutros. I think Letterman would approve.
I like Karlito.
“The Fucking Frog” or even “Fucker the Frog”
I vote for Jeremiah. For the song, as noted above, and for the prophet. It’s also relatively timeless.
C’mon, folks. You don’t want a frog named Karl. What will you invoke once Karl really is frog-marched out and there are still other baddies to out?
A happy gator named Elliot?
Booman,
Is this a glitch? My oh-so-clever line of my sig printed in roman, rather than italic. Do I have to tinker with the preferences somehow?
Fixed. You can check your profile to see what I did.
just saw it, and that it had “magically” fixed itself. Thanks. I’ll have to study up on the technicalities.
This has a lot of HTML tips:
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/DailyKos_FAQ
It may not be working right now though. Kos is doing software upgrades and having problems.
Yup..the trusty mascot of the Booman Tribune-BOOMER
Booter? *BOO*man *T*ribune.
Boots the frog.
Please make it a plucky cute name because it may end up the name of the next cat/kitten we foster. One batch of ktitens got named after the whores and other characters on “Deadwood.”
— Trixie (the whore at the Gem Saloon)
— Sophia (the little “squarehead” aka Norwegian whose parents were murdered)
— Charlie (Wild Bill’s and Calamity Jane’s sidekick)
Another batch got named after blogs. Atrios, Wonkette, ….
P.S. The raccoon I feed every night is named Sen. Boxer.
heh
Since you and I are super Deadwood fans, we might just have a post-Deadwood thread. But…egads…I see it 3 hours before you can.
That will never work.
P.S. What is the drunk lady’s name?
Are you just tuning in for season 2? The drunk lady is none other than Calamity Jane! She came back to Deadwood after leaving for a while, and after the death of her beloved friend Wild Bill (played brilliantly by Keith Carradine, who shoulda been nominated for an Emmy). (NOTE: David Milch sprinkles lots of real people in the show as characters but takes complete artistic license with what occurs to them in the show. For example, the father (grandfather?) of WIlliam Randolph Hearst is coming to town this season — just as he did to the real Deadwood — but who knows what Milch will do to him.)
My daughter is OBSESSED and has been posting furiously on TV Without Pity where they dissect everything, she tells me, about the show. Right now, my daughter is madly defending Alma because some people don’t like her.
Can we have a little Deadwood thread here somehow? Maybe?
P.S. I figured out that “squareheads” are Norwegians. And, of course, the “dirt worshipers” that Swearingen talks about are Indians. But I can’t figure out who “Hoopleheads” are.
I love the show.
My only fear is that we would ruin the show by discussing it before you see it.
So, I guess, as a rule, you would have to be in charge of starting the thread.
And if someone diaries about it, you have to control your impulse to read about the show.
Hoopleheads? Anyone got an answer?
Also: dirt worshippers are aka fucking heathens.
The show pulls no punches.
I’ve actually spent way too much time on the hooplehead question and it is still not entirely clear…but I think the lack of clarity is because it is not consistently applied.
I’ve seen two pretty strong arguments for references to Dutch immigrants in the Dakota territories who were barrel makers and coincidentally wore large brim hats.
Contextually, it seems that Al uses it as a general moniker for anyone who isn’t on his social plane (but who is?), has alcohol or drug issues, or is “from off” i.e., immigrants.
P.S. I get both the East Coast and West Coast feeds of HBO. I usually watch at 6PM, taping it for my daughter, who drives over (!) at about 730 PM to pick up the tape and take it home to watch. (She doesn’t have cable or satellite … we share costs, along with two other people, and I do a LOT of taping for her and them since I’m home all the time.)
ah! So it’s not a problem.
Right! We’re a bit irritated with Seth, btw.
Deadwood is without a doubt the best program on television today. It’s up there with Tanner ’88 and The Decalogue in terms of originality and artistic vision. Simply an amazing program. –M
BOOMAN, may we swear here? My daughter sent me the audio clip of Al Swearingen and Mr. Wu’s famous “c–ksuckah” exchange last season. It IS the best show. (If any of you haven’t seen it, you can RENT or BUY the first season DVD. Check Netflix or http://www.hbo.com or Amazon, of course.) I strongly advise watching the first season before getting into this ongoing second season.
Blog Frog
How about Will or Willie?
I’ve seen the quote by Joe Wilson about frogmarching Rove out of Washington, so Karl or Rove doesn’t make sense to me since he’s the guy we want to get rid of, but naming the frog Will shows that we have the “will” to frogmarch anyone out of Washington who wants to destroy your country. Or something like that.
Booman,
As I’m sure everyone knows by now, dailykos is having serious DNS problems with verisign and their hosting provider. In the interim Kos has posted the IP address for his site on the DK front page to help folks connect. But for those of us who don’t already have the site cached in local DNS servers, this can’t help. Finding the IP address has become a chicken ‘n egg problem of loading dailykos in order be able to load dailykos. I’m not a big DK contributor, but I’d like to read the FP, and I’m sure I’m not alone.
So may I recommend that sister sites help DK out by posting the IP address and instructions on how to edit one’s hosts file so folks who search can find the IP? I would be a great help to me, as I don’t have it! 🙂
Also: I am unable to post a diary on this topic. I’m getting a “You need to choose a valid topic, title, section, and have text in the introduction to submit a story.” error message, when I appear to have written a valid title and valid text in the intro box. I am not given drop boxes for topic and section, but I would assume those should be automatically set for a diary.
Thanks,
–Maynard
but I’m unqualified to explain all the details.
If someone understands the technical challenges of accessing dKos, please write a quick diary about it, and if it is good, I’ll promote it to the front page.
Does that work for everyone?
…I can’t seem to post a diary. I also don’t know the IP addreess. –M
69.9.161.200
I need help understanding if people are suddenly having a problem posting diaries.
I gave the error message I’m seeing. It would appear as though submission is expecting a topic and section selection that’s not available as a drop box. Since it’s a diary entry I expect the topic and section should be hard-coded instead of user selectable from a drop box.
Also noted: I’m seeing spurious bogus javascript errors when using dynamic threading with Firefox. I’ve had to revert to Nested mode in order to read comments. However, sometimes it works, sometimes not. So there’s definitely something strange going on… –M
Okay. I think this is related to our efforts to give users the ability to edit their diaries.
Andy sent me an email at 4 in the morning about what a pain in the ass it was. He lives in PST. So he is probably just waking up.
He might have left something broken and not realized it.
Can you post your above post again in the the Complaint Department Diary please?
We’ll fix it ASAP.
P.S. Is EVERYONE having this problem?
Can’t seem to find a link there and it’s not in the FAQ. Can you provide a pointer? –M
peeder did a diary at dkos on how to login by editing your host file, but it didn’t work for me. It has worked for others though.
http://69.9.161.200/story/2005/3/15/221032/675
Also, I see kos just posted a comment about the site being back up now, but I still can’t log in.
I’m glad I created this site. Otherwise I’d have to read CNN.com or something. Uhg.
I’ll check the diary.
Okay. dkos is back up and ISPs are picking it up slowly but surely.
I believe everything happens for a reason. 24 hours without dkos and I found Booman’s blog! Thanks Boo!!
and if you post a diary it will probably pop to the top of the World Recommended List in an instant.
right? 🙂
I thought BooMan was the name of the frog…
Biberty…combo of Boo and Liberty?
If it’s someone we want to see frog-marched in handcuffs, George W. Bush’s good friend, the man he called “Kenny Boy”, is a very good choice.
I. M. Dunfore
Just a suggestion, when choosing names, it might be a good idea to list them all in one poll and then take the top 5 or 10 and poll those. This is how I used to run contests and it worked best. Of course, this is only a suggestion, you can toss it if you like.
seeing names in a list would be good then voting seems like it might weed out lots of suggestions and we’d then vote on top 5 or whatever.
I know. I’m in that kind of a mood.
This gives our little green buddy a full name
But in keeping with true criminal types he needs a 3 part name. (ever noticed that??)
How about: Peter Perp Walker
I nominate:
Presenter: Good evening. On ‘Ethel the Frog’ tonight we look at violence The violence of British Gangland. Last Tuesday a reign of terror was ended when the notorious Piranha brothers, Doug and Dinsdale, after one of the most extraordinary trials in British legal history, were sentenced to 400 years imprisonment for crimes of violence. We examined the rise to power of the Piranhas, the methods they used to subjugate rival gangs and their subsequent tracking down and capture by the brilliant Superintendent Harry ‘Snapper’ Organs of Q Division. Doug and Dinsdale Piranha were born, on probation, in a small house in Kipling Road, Southwark, the eldest sons in a family of sixteen. Their father Arthur Piranha, a scrap metal dealer and TV quizmaster, was well known to the police, and a devout Catholic. In 1928 he had married Kitty Malone, an up-and-coming East End boxer. Doug was born in February 1929 and Dinsdale two weeks later; and again a week after that. Someone who remembers them well was their next door neighbour, Mrs April Simnel.
Fits for investigative journalism…
That is a froggy sounding name if ever there was one (no offense, Julia). Phinnaeus sounds erudite and memorable, no?
How about John Phillip Sousafrog?
Though, I kind of like both “Jacques” and “Freedom Frog”, too.
Rana Veritas.
(strictly translated: “frog of truth”)
As I posted on pyrrho’s diary
the other day:
I don’t think you could do better than Clarence. Why Clarence, you might well ask? Why, to honor Clarence Frogman Henry and his R&B hit Ain’t Got No Home.
A sample of the lyrics (piano vamping underneath):
I ain’t got no father,
Ain’t got no mother,
I ain’t got no sister,
Not even a brother.
I’m a lonely frog.
I ain’t got no home.
Give it a listen.
when I have the poll should we have people write diaries in defense of their vote?
KneeDeep Hedfurst