Thanks to the scores of readers who wrote in to explain that the frog in the Sean Delonas cartoon was, in fact, wheelchair-dependent because the French like to eat frog legs and not, as we supposed, some kind of commentary on the struggle in Iraq that has left so many of our soldiers limbless. We had no clue! A couple of correspondents did note the similarity between Delonas' amphibian amputee and the image from this classic National Lampoon album. There's been a suggestion that this is some kind of rip off, but, given Sean's history, we're just going to call it an homage. Which is, we believe, a French word.

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