[andy58-in-nh]

I plead "artistic license", I guess. But have you ever fallen (or jumped) into the ocean when the water temperature is in the low 30s? It burns, man. Then you just get numb.

Or maybe that was the alcohol offered after having been dared to act like a friggin' polar bear. ;-)

[edpc]

Never tried it myself. Probably didn’t have enough “anti-freeze” in me to make the attempt.