J.J.: One moment of glory for the “Frog” epithet (i.e. in reference our

Gallic friends) occurred in a movie titled The Adventures of Barry McKenzie.

For those who never made the acquaintance of the immortal Bazza, he was an

early creation of Australian comic genius Barry Humphries, who is closely

related to the stage megastar Dame Edna Everage. “The Adventures” first ran

as a comic strip in the London scandal sheet Private Eye in the midlle

1960s. Bazza is an Australian country boy living in London. He is clueless

about pretty much everything, but especially about sex — one of the running

jokes of the strip was Bazza’s utter inability to make any sexual

connection, mainly because he just misses the point of every potential

encounter. He is also completely in the dark about Political Correctness,

which was just then beginning to rear its hideous head. Bazza’s customary

greeting to any colored person was: “G’Day there, Woggy boy…”

Well, in the movie Bazza goes to Heathrow Airport to catch a plane. There

is a shot with some parked planes in the background. One of them has the

Air France logo on its tail, supplemented by the words FROG AIR.