this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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Dude, the frog in the storks mouth was EXACTLY the one I had in mind
I did some googling. “Frog and stork” led to is autofilling “never give up”
It’s been redrawn a number of times over the years, but this is the closest to what I remember:
https://imgur.com/MJ38F
This is my first time seeing it in colour. It was always a black and white shitty photocopy to me.
Edit: I have since learned that it’s supposed to be a Heron.
That has got to be literally older than the internet. I swear I remember seeing it hanging in my grandpa's garage when I was a kid, and it was already yellowed by then.