Sometimes a Posted on 01/15/2009 11:52:11 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
Edited on 01/15/2009 11:59:05 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
In a scene straight out of the movie "A Christmas Story," a 10-year-old Hammond, Ind., boy got his tongue stuck to a metal light pole.
Shortly after 8:30 a.m., police found the boy with his tongue stuck to a streetlight pole, Bedford newspaper The Times reported. Temperatures in Hammond were around 10 degrees at the time.
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Actually for a time we called him lollipop....
When I was a young lad of about 4, back in 1957, my sister got her tongue frozen stuck to a wrought iron railing in Williamstown, Massachusetts. My grandmother heated a pot of water on the stove and defrosted her. It’s a wonder my sister made it to age 56, she also ate a whole bottle of orange flavored baby aspirin....and then there was the time she stuck a rake handle down an underground yellowjacket nest/hive........oh boy...I could go on, but I’ll spare y’all.
You are right on there - my mother always brought out a dryer warmed towel and a bowl of warm water.... sigh....
“Sheesh, that’s basic first aid!”
No, that’s common sense and there no school anywhere to learn common sense. I think Ritalin removes common sense from the body when taken.
ping (mostly for the “not a ping list” but I can’t remember who that is)
This is today’s problem in a nutshell. The age of the internet. This probably happens a couple of dozen or more times a day around the country during the winter and probably always has since the advent of metal light poles. But now, with the internet, this kid will be in People Magazine, on Entertainment Tonight, YouTube, the Lettermen Show... All for what? Being a kid.
And you know what this means... We’re going to have to ban metal light poles. You know... for the kids.
Man, we got to get rid of them metal poles.
Sounds like my brother who had to find out what happened if you jammed a set of tweezers into an electrical outlet.
Of course, I'm the one who tried a shot of Clorox...
[best Dudley Do-Right voice]
I’ll save you Nell!
Some tap water poured over the tongue will release it.OK, I'll bite: exactly how did you figure this out?
;^)
Sometimes a Preferably, by yourself.
Always? How many times did you do it?
At least he didn’t hear those dreaded words “You’ll shoot your eye out kid”.
A kindly stay-at-home mom rescued a young, victimized* Cletus one morning.
* On his way to elementary school one cold January day, Cletus and his friends were discussing just such an event. They understood the consequences but Cletus, being the daring type, told his friends that a lite touch would not necessarily keep one stuck to he pole.
As the naive Cletus placed the very point of his tongue on the flagpole, a classmate (who to this day is not a friend!) pushed Cletus’ head forward engaging the entire “flat” of his tongue to the pole. Everyone but the captive, innocent Cletus, ran like hell!
The mother, watching from her front window, brought out a pitcher of water and poured it over the cherubic child’s tongue and he was freed!
Her young daughter and Cletus married in 1981 and are still together today.
Is your sister’s name “Lucky”?
The tip of my tongue was frozen to my school for half the winter. (When it froze to the metal, I just tore it off. Wasn’t pleasant.)
gnip...
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