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- From: Mike.Oniffrey@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Oniffrey)
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- Subject: Re: Licking the bars
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.010146.28757@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 01:01:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.161335@vinnie.cuc.ab.ca> jonathan@vinnie.cuc.ab.ca
- (Jonathan Levine) writes:
-
- Getting your tongue frozen to a piece of metal outdoors
- in the winter is commonly known as "licking the bars".
- The origin is schoolchildren, as the bars referred to are
- those comprising the fence around the schoolyard.
-
- Read an article in alt.tastless 'bout a month ago 'bout a kid, cavorting
- with his dad, who did just this one sub-zero day. Dad's quick thinking
- saved sonny tongue; he pissed on it.
-
- Mike "Damn-my eyeball's stuck to the telescope" Oniffrey
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