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I'll ask my friend who sent me the clipping, but it looks real to me. There is definitely an Ask Leslie column and I can't imagine someone memefying it falsely. Hays is positively a bustling metropolis by Western Kansas standards but it's not exactly a major media outlet.
(Thanks the puppie, but it could just be someone spoofing the paper. I'm not exactly Ed Murrow over here but I'll see if I can find out.)
mcgraw, I remember that Simpsons' episode where Homer's a missionary and he just can't stop licking the toads. I also remember some story about some kids licking the wrong kind of toads and ending up with their tongues so swollen they couldn't shut their mouths or something like that.
fiendishthingy, how in the heck did they get a frog and a squirrel to mate? That's freaky in a very freaky kind of way.
I'm guessing if you licked the thing fiendishthingy linked to, your godmother would be compelled to write several alarmed letters to the media. Also, you wouldn't have a tongue any longer. However, this is only a guess.
mcgraw, Cane Toads (yet another example of the madness that is introduced animals here) are something of an urbanlegend here and are alleged to provide a high when licked or dried and smoked. Not only for humans, apparently.
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