Posted on 12/16/2016 11:43:56 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
It's bitter cold outside. And it's Christmas time.
So, naturally, a 14-year-old Haverford boy dared his younger brother to stick his tongue to a cold pole as they headed to school on Friday morning. It's unclear whether the younger sibling, age 12, was subjected to a triple dog dare. But he accepted the challenge.
And promptly got his tongue stuck.
"Obviously, they must have been watching 'The Christmas Story,'" Haverford Deputy Police Chief Joseph Hagan said.
But unlike the scene in the famed holiday film, in which the schoolchildren abandon the tongue-stuck Flick as the school bell rings, the older brother stuck around. Hagan said the older brother was able to loosen his sibling's tongue with warm water as police arrived to assist.
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He could have peed on it...
Well, it would have worked.
Oh, I thought it said Harvard boy. I figured maybe this was why he’s so late to his own press conference.
LOL
Did he breach protocol and go straight to the Trip,e Dog Dare?
When I was in college many years ago, I told some our pledges that farts would burn, they tried an experiment, and one of them lost his undershorts proving farts would burn.
I knew a kid who tried that, the fire went inside his body and he spontaneously combusted right on the spot ...
I did this, when I was about six. On an outdoor railing at my elementary school.
Only touched a tiny spot on the tip of my tongue to it, though. It froze all right, and pulling it off hurt, but it healed in a day or so.
Was it in response to a double-dog dare?
When I was a young girl, my cousins and I did the Southern version: dare each other to stick our tongue to Grandma’s metal ice cube tray.
The lawyer for a business law class I had as an undergrad was unprepared to teach one morning, so he started telling stories. His was about a grade school friend that did the tongue thing on a railroad track. Fire Department and a kettle of warm water did the trick.
Scary
Flick character. They painted and made a fake flagpole. And there’s a little hole in it, the size of, basically, your pinky nail. With a vacuum cleaner tube, basically a suction,” he said. “No, I did not really stick my tongue to the pole
Worse. It was a TRIPLE dog dare. Clearly he had no choice.
I had a friend do that 50 years ago to a stop sign waiting for the schoolbus on a dare...tore the tip of his tongue off as it was either that or miss the schoolbus.
I went to Lida Hoe elementary school in Dallas in the 40s. The red brick school looked just like Ralphie’s in the movie and kids used to dare each other to try the tongue on metal stunt on something called a “maypole”. It usually took a triple dog dare to get some brave, but dumb, soul to try it.
It was a tall metal pole with a bunch of chains hanging off the top with handles on the end. The idea was for all the kids to run around in a circle, hanging on to their chain and flying off the ground. Of course, lots would fall off and their chains would continue to circle around the pole with the remaining kids, becoming flying missiles. Looking back it was fairly dangerous if you weren’t careful when you slowed down or got off since the flying metal handle could hit you in the head.
Come to think of it, every piece of fun play equipment from slides, to see-saws to swings were inherently dangerous —but perhaps it was worth it to teach us a lesson that even fun things could bite you on the ass if you weren’t careful. Those things are all gone now and instead of being practical teachers of real life, kids nowadays are coddled and swaddled with participation trophies, nothing to fear playgrounds, and no idea of how to cope with the dangers inherent in ordinary life.
I thought the headline read Hitlary gets tongue to Harvard boy’s bunghole. 0Bummer denies it was him.
Oh, I assumed this was about a snowflake pajama boy student at the college.
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