RE: Beware the Laptop! Sumo "preps"

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

One of the Urban Legend sites has this:



http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_083.html



An excerpt: "What we have here is one of the great barroom legends. Where it got started nobody knows, but it was greatly popularized some years ago by Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, in You Only Live Twice, which was set in Japan. "



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From: alstonchris@netscape.net [mailto:alstonchris@netscape.net]

Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 12:28 PM

To: farbersa@optonline.net; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: Beware the Laptop!





Stu



Bingo!! (With slight editing).



>I believe the issue that might make laptop use more of an issue, is that a >male user would bring his legs together thus not allowing the testes to  >"cool" by distancing themselves from the *torso, and* legs.



Don't sumo wrestlers use a similar tactic, or is that an "old wives" tale?



A male kangaroo before it does battle can draw 

>its testicles completely up into its abdomen [assuming "battle readiness" 

>as it were] so these structures rather critical to its eventually  

>reproducing are less exposed to injury and not "lost" by a well placed  

>kick from its opponent.



Cheers

cja





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