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I was reading a book last night which said (something along the lines of) ".. and I was frog-marched down the hallway". (I can't remember the exact quote, and now I can't find it... d'oh!)
Anyone got any ideas about why the frogs were being marched, as opposed to any other animal? And how were the frogs marching? Have you ever seen a frog march? They's jumping, leaping and - at a stretch - hopping, but I ain't never seen them marching.
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Thanks Max...  Interesting, I can see the frog imagery now, but it definitely wasn't the impression I got from the book, as I recall reading it. Better go find it again, and re-imagine what was actually going on at the time. 
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Thanks tsuwm, that's kinda the same context that was in the book I was reading. Can't imagine two people actually dragging her by the arms up the aisle, with her feet dragging behind. "Oooh, don't drag my (cross out inappropriate colours) [white / cream / stucco / mother-of-pearl] wedding dress on the floor..."
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Speaking of interesting: http://www.frogmarch.com/ Bet they're British! From the etymology online dic.:
Frog-march (1871) originated among London police and referred to their method of moving "a drunken or refractory prisoner" by carrying him face-down between four people, each holding a limb; the connection with frog perhaps being the notion of going along belly-down. By the 1930s, the verb was used in ref. to the much more efficient (but less frog-like) method of getting someone in an arm-behind-the-back hold and hustling him or her along like that. http://www.etymonline.com/f5etym.htm
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Thanks for the mantle, ma'am.
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This made the difference, to me: "the connection with frog perhaps being the notion of going along belly-down."
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As opposed to a "perp walk", which is normally done without bodily contact between escorts and escorted.
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>This made the difference, to me: "the connection with frog perhaps being the notion of going along belly-down." Which I still call a mantle, since the same idea was clearly implicit in the link I posted. 
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My gosh, synchronicity is rampant! This was the very word I'd been trying to think of on another board! Amazing. Synchronicity is amazing.
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Is the plural of mantle mentle or should we be all PC and call it persontle and peopletle?
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the same idea was clearly implicit in the link I posted.
As I said, it was not...to me. My inadequacies seem to be hanging out even further than usual.
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Right-ee-ho! Watch out y'all, or I'll be frog-marching you all on outta here to take up your beef outside.  Thanks for everyone's help on this one.
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