It was nagging at me...so I googled it...and this is what I found...
Otis the Frogman was a black man from Georgia, his nickname, presumably, a reference to his unusually formed limbs. His act was to roll, light and smoke a cigarette using only his lips. Until he was 28, he had eked a living from hawking pencils and other goods; his break came when he showed his cigarette trick to a carnival that was passing through town and was asked to join up as a novelty act. He took up the offer, describing it as "the best thing that had ever happened". In addition to enjoying the traveling and being accepted as a valued member the group, the income had allowed him to buy a small house in his hometown.I thought I had only imagined Otis the Frogman...Really, I thought that I had never seen what I saw...You know how your recollection plays tricks on you and you realize sometime later that things were never as you recall?...I doubted my recollections of Otis...from so many years ago...at the Dixie Classic Fair...the October air crisp and cool...my floppy hair obscuring my eyes...a Loni Anderson poster, won after $15 worth of ring toss, tucked firmly under my arm...But I saw it...It was almost exactly as I recall...as validated by my own internet research...conducted just 20 minutes ago...and I realize at right this very moment...I should have left that memory alone...not even sought to verify it...things were better that way...my life was better then...and it was better just 20 minutes ago...before Google solved the mystery...I need a cigarette.
Cousin Kenny
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Its Frog Boy not Man
Dude grew up.
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