Talk:Wide Mouth Frog protocol

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Can someone please explain why this protocol is called as wide-mouth-frog protocol?BluntAXE 18:51, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here are three ideas:

1. According to one source, "this refers to one of the inventor’s childhood nicknames".

2. Another possibility is that wide-mouthed frogs (or horned frogs) have a curious triangular prolongation of the edge of the upper eyelid. In the original paper, the wide mouth frog protocol diagram is triangular and slightly frog-like.

3. Wide Mouth Frog is also a moral-based children's story, but this is probably not related.

a. My mother once told me a joke about a wide mouth frog who'd just become a mother. The wide mouth frog would go to different animals and ask them, "What do you feed your babies?" (Mother would say this part with her fingers stretching her lips toward her cheeks to impersonate the "wide mouth frog".) After getting different answers from various animals, the wide mouth frog visits an alligator and asks, "What do you feed your babies?" The alligator responds, "I feed my babies wide mouth frogs." The wide mouth frog responds (Mother would pucker her lips for this part), "You don't see too many of those around here anymore."Mobill76 (talk) 17:34, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

1. above (the nickname theory) is correct. --JimGettys (talk) 03:55, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]