Brought tears to my face. Tears of laughter but they were at least real tears!
Heh, I laugh every time I see it...I think I find it funnier listening to the guys giggling in the sound booth...
Guys are odd about this.
If you ever see a guy get hit in the gonads by a softball or something, all the other guys kind of gather round, shift from foot to foot, and make ribald jokes while the poor guy on the ground has his eyes closed, sweat on his face, both hands clutching his crotch.
One of my favorite stories is from the book “All Creatures Great and Small” written by a veterinarian back in the 1930’s.
The vet was talking about this one old, diminutive Yorkshire farmer who was so circumspect, that he couldn’t even say the word “pregnant” or “uterus”, and would talk all around the subject of sexual anatomy on the animals. One day, he was helping the vet by holding onto a cow, when it lashed out with its hind leg and hit the little farmer square in the nuts.
He went over, with the poor guy laying in the ground in the classic posture, and the vet didn’t know what to say, so even though he wanted to provide encouragement, he thought it better to just let the guy say something first since it was obviously a delicate and embarrassing subject for the guy, and he didn’t want to say balls or nuts, never mind “testicles”...
After the farmer had lain there a while eyes still closed, the vet saw the little guy’s mustache twitch, and when he leaned in to hear, he heard him say: “Got me right in the privates.”