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Frogs don't like heat no matter how it's applied - The Record-Courier

Record Courier Staff Reports February 3, 2006 --> Print Email I almost put an editor's note on Richard Frost's letter to the editor appearing in Wednesday's edition, but space and editorial decorum stayed my hand.The note wasn't due to his dissection of the average cost to a Family posed by the utility tax that increases by 1.75 percent instead of 1.5 percent or the claim the new senior center will be 11 times larger than the old one.It Was his claim that a frog won't jump out of a pot if the heat is turned up slowly.I've always wondered about this particular bit of lore, which I first encountered in 1994 when the gas tax Was shot down. A cartoon drawn for gas station owner Dave Mills had the same theme.A quick check at snopes.com revealed the item to be an urban myth.According to Dr. Victor Hutchison, a research professor emeritus from the University of Oklahoma's Department of Zoology, a frog will try to jump out of a pot whether the temperature is increased gradually or quickly.Which, by the way, is precisely how Douglas County's More Vocal taxpayers react.n n nAnother urban myth I get forwarded to me about once - More available

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