Kissing frogs to find upstanding politicians

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On Aug 10, a frog belonging to one Seth Burlingham won first prize at the 2021 annual Ashtabula county fair frog jumping competition. People cheered as the frog leaped 11 feet 5 inches (3.47m) to clinch the top spot in Ashtabula, Ohio, in the United States.

Earlier, in May, a frog named Firefly was reported to have jumped 20 feet 1 inch (6.12m) to win the Calaveras county fair frog jumping competition. The jump was short of the US national record of 21 feet 5.75 inches (6.54m) set in 1986 by a frog named Rosie the Ribiter.

Quite a number of counties in the US have these frog jumping contests as part of a fun and gaiety programme to bring the local community together, with May 13 named National Frog Jumping Day.

If there ever were to be a national frog jumping day in Malaysia, it would have to be just after a general election or a state election. For that is the time politicians show off their jumping skills – hopping from the party which gave them a ticket to contest in the election to the party in power.

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