"Crazy Frog" - An Exercise in Applied Probability

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It seems likely that we'll soon need a phrase - equivalent to "Godwin's Law" - for the number of posts a thread will receive before somebody invokes the Crazy Frog. Would any mathematicians like to speculate on the Probability of Crazy Frog appearing in any particular thread category within, say, 50 replies?

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

If I'm in a car going 60 mph in Crazy Frog's direction and you're Crazy Frog on a motorcycle going 75 mph in my direction, how long until one of us inadvertently starts harboring real feelings and what is the magnitude of our heartbreak and subsequent distrust for the opposite sex?
Please answer in the form of a question.

(P.S. - I'll meet you behind the tool shed.)

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

They are very different -- the idea is to *not* invoke Godwin's Law, while the opposite seems to be true for the Crazy Frog Principle. Mathematically, we're talking about completely distinct thread topologies.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I did realise that but was struggling for an analogy.

Getting it on with the Crazy Frog might be tricky cos there's a small black rectangle that follows him round obscuring his genitals.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Ahh, but noodle, I've only seen it uncensored!

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

It's not a very big rectangle.

Actually I don't think frogs have penises. I was annoyed at the biological inaccuracy - this could mislead a whole generation of kids.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

b-b-but Ian, I never mentioned Crazy Frog!!

THAT IS SLANDER.

(I don't even know what/who Crazy Frog is.)

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

lucky you

― fcuss3n, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

Crazy Frog has been #1 in the UK charts in the past two weeks. It's a ringtone released as a single where this animated frog creature imitates a motorcycle over a sped up version of the theme for Beverly Hills Cop. It's as nutty as it sounds, and it was outselling Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" 4 to 1. xpost

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

wtf

where can I hear this?

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

The phantom menace.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mtv.com/onair/trl/flipbooks/photobooth/images/photo_chris_klein.jpg

― latebloomer: We kissy kiss in the rear view (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

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