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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did some googling. “Frog and stork” led to is autofilling “never give up”

It’s been redrawn a number of times over the years, but this is the closest to what I remember:

https://imgur.com/MJ38F

This is my first time seeing it in colour. It was always a black and white shitty photocopy to me.

Edit: I have since learned that it’s supposed to be a Heron.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That has got to be literally older than the internet. I swear I remember seeing it hanging in my grandpa's garage when I was a kid, and it was already yellowed by then.