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It's akin to the lobster-in-a-boiling-pot scenario. Put a lobster in already boiling water and it screams, stick it in room-temp water and heat to boiling and
by jeromewbrock 16y ago
It's akin to the lobster-in-a-boiling-pot scenario.
Put a lobster in already boiling water and it screams, stick it in room-temp water and heat to boiling and the lobster won't notice it's being cooked until it's too late...
- pohl 16y agoThank you for using a lobster instead of a frog, because I went to see if lobsters were mentioned on the wikipedia page for boiling frogs, and there was a reference there to another entry for "creeping normalcy". I like that phrase. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normalcy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normalcy
- fnid2 16y agoThe frog one is false http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp
- pohl 16y agoYeah, it's frustrating that it gets propagated as truth rather than allegory. Some day I'd like it to find a home amongst Aesop's fables. The fox and the grapes, the tortise and the hare, the boiling frog...