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[freckles_and_doubt]

My Masters student, who has a pleasingly demented streak which has not in any way prevented her submitting a slightly kick-butt dissertation on women in fairy tale (Basile, Perrault and Disney, my work here is done), just popped into my office in order to leave me the following offering:



You add water and it turns into a prince. Apparently. (If you have the duck version, apparently it turns into a princess. The logic here escapes me, although I'm somewhat charmed by the idea of "The Frog Duck to Prince Princess" advertised on the label).

My annoying day full of meetings and annoyance just improved immeasurably. Am off, chortling, to turn frogs into princes and (apparently) watch it grow 600%. For some reason I find this slightly dodgy. In other news, apparently I'm five.

Comments

[stringgeek.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I want to see pictures of the prince. Will he be green as well, do you suppose?

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Not according to the picture... I've filled it with water and it's sitting on my desk looking like a fat buddha frog with bits falling off it. No actual bubbles, as promised. Anticipation..

[rumint.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing the prince is inside the frog, and the frog bits dissolve. Am I on the right track?

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Exactly! The frog bits dissolve, leaving a prince in a sort of icky green soup which you rinse away. Then you fill it with clean water and the tiny prince from the waist up slowly grows into a full-length prince. Also, gets a bit Incredible Hulkish around the shoulders and facial features. I so wouldn't allow this guy to Cinderella me.

Have been chronicling it all on Twitter, more or less perversely.