Posted on 12/16/2021 1:50:47 PM PST by dynachrome
You’re hanging around a flagpole with your pals in the freezing cold, and one of them triple-dog-dares you to put your tongue on the pole to see if it sticks.
Well, lo and behold, it did stick, so now how do you get it unstuck?
I’ve thought about this scenario ever since I was a kid and first saw the cinematic classic A Christmas Story. For some reason I decided that this could happen to me one day and if it did, I needed to know how to get my tongue unstuck from a frozen flagpole without having to call the police and fire department.
Metal is a strong thermal conductor, and when you stick your tongue on a very cold pole, it pulls the heat away from the saliva that coats your tongue’s nooks and crannies. That moisture then freezes, bonding your tongue to the pole. The key to getting your tongue unstuck is thus to melt that bond. If you have a pal around who can procure a vessel of warm (not hot!) liquid, he can pour it on the pole to thaw things out.
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If Obama got his tongue stuck to a cold flagpole, the procedure is different: he should squirt some of the lighter fluid he brought with him on the pole, then use the matches he also brought along.
You keep bresthing onto your tongue or somebody brings slightly cooled water.
Or you grow new tastebuds
... a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple-dare-you
Pal or no pal. He will NOT procure any warm (not hot!) liquid.
I'll stay stuck to said frozen metal pole before I'll allow THAT to happen.
We have the dvd, there’s bonus material on it. They drilled a hole in the pole, made a little vacuum suction thing, that’s how the kid’s tongue is stuck.
lmao
They might not be your friend if...
Oh but the other kids will tease you as a cowardly cuss FOORREEEEVVVAAA !!!!
Hey, I’m just a regular guy who figured out how to get his tongue off the pole.
Sooo I posted this PSA.
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If I have a tongue on my pole I’m inclined to leave it there.
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That’s classic.
I’ve been there done that but it was on the monkey bars in grade school when the outside temperature was close to zero. I did it on my own just because I was such a curious sort and had to see what would happen. I don’t remember how I got unstuck but it couldn’t have been very traumatic else I would have remembered the unsticking part. I think I may have just continued to breathe out on the pipe until it warmed up enough to thaw my tongue loose. This all occurred in North Dakota of all places and there was one thing I was familiar with was cold weather.
You could wrap your hands around the pole/your tongue to warm up that section of the pole too.
Gee, that is strict!
Is this a Kamala Harris metaphor thread or something?
Unless it’s for a Red Ryder.
FR is a virtual cornucopia of survival information.......
Beat me to it! GMTA...Scary stuff sometimes.
8^)
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