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To: Red Badger

It turns out that this rather bizarre tradition of boys doing the breast stroke in their birthday suits can be traced all the way back to 1885, when it began at an all-male indoor pool in Brooklyn’s YMCA.


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6 posted on 08/21/2024 8:20:50 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Y - M - C - A - ! .........................


7 posted on 08/21/2024 8:21:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Did you read the article? By the way in 1885 it really was the “Young Man’s CHRISTIAN Association”.


68 posted on 08/21/2024 9:36:38 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Explains most perplexing things.


85 posted on 08/21/2024 9:53:35 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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