I figured from context that “frogging” something meant tearing it out, but until Mcchase enlightened me, I’d no idea where the usage came from. Imagine my chagrin when I realized that I hadn’t figured out the joke on my own.<\/p>\n
rip it, rip it, rip it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I figured from context that “frogging” something meant tearing it out, but until Mcchase enlightened me, I’d no idea where the usage came from. Imagine my chagrin when I realized that I hadn’t figured out the joke on my own. rip it, rip it, rip it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[96,111],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-community","tag-oops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sgY3e-ribbit","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":324,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=324","url_meta":{"origin":960,"position":0},"title":"Little sock goes ripit, ripit, ripit","author":"Jorah","date":"August 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My attempt at making one of Cat Bordhi's discovery socks\u00a0didn't go very well. 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