Literal interpretations? Texas Toads (very OT)

Jim Flanagan jamesf at alumni.caltech.edu
Sun Oct 8 22:12:31 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 2983

> Hagrid from Texas???  The mind reels!  "Ya call that a dragon?  
> Wait tell ya see one of our Houston Horntails, pardner--why next to 
> it, your common Welsh green look like one of our Texas horned
> toads.  

Except we always called them "horny toads" when we were little kids.  
Never could figure out why that made the grownups uncomfortable.

Jim Flanagan
Permian High School, '68

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