I double-dog dare ya!

[Bobbie Ireland]

I keep waiting for my 7-year-old nephew Owen to do this!

Bobbie


Okla. boy rescued after tongue gets stuck on pole
Posted at: 01/11/2011 10:06 PM
By: | WHEC.com

(AP) WOODWARD, Okla. - In a scene straight from the movie "A Christmas Story," an 8-year-old Oklahoma boy got his tongue stuck to a metal pole after he licked it on a dare.

Officials say when rescue crews arrived Tuesday morning, the boy was standing on his tiptoes, trying to wriggle his frozen tongue free from a stop sign pole across the street from Woodward Middle School.

Paramedics were able to help the boy by pouring water on his tongue. Once free, the boy told officials he got stuck after his brother dared him to lick the pole.

The boy was taken to a Woodward hospital for treatment.

The scene was similar to one in "A Christmas Story," a 1983 movie adapted from Jean Shepard’s memoir of a boy in the 1940s.

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

[MAK]

 :rofl:I love that movie!

[Carol P.]

Awesome movie!   

[Bobbie Ireland]

GEVA presented the stage version two Christmases ago. My family was a 25-strong contingent - including Master Owen, who just ate it up. Another of our traditions: The film plays in the background every single Christmas Eve at the big Cousins' Gift Exchange. The request goes out every year: Who's bringing the cookies? And who's bringing "A Christmas Story"?

[Shaky]

Flick: Are you kidding? Stick my tongue to that stupid pole? That's dumb!
Schwartz: That's 'cause you know it'll stick!
Flick: You're full of it!
Schwartz: Oh yeah?
Flick: Yeah!
Schwartz: Well I double-DOG-dare ya!
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] NOW it was serious. A double-dog-dare. What else was there but a "triple dare you"? And then, the coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-dog-dare.
Schwartz: I TRIPLE-dog-dare ya!
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Schwartz created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat!

[Bobbie Ireland]

You'll put your eye out, posting that sorta stuff, Shaky.

[Shaky]

Mother: No, you'll shoot your eye out.
Ralphie as Adult: Oh no! It was a classic, mother BB-gun block. "You'll shoot your eye out!" That deadly phrase honored many times by hundreds of mothers was not surmountable by any means known to Kid-dom, but such as my mania, my desire for a Red Ryder carbine, that I immediately began to rebuild the dike.

[Bobbie Ireland]

Mother: No, you'll shoot your eye out.
Ralphie as Adult: Oh no! It was a classic, mother BB-gun block. "You'll shoot your eye out!" That deadly phrase honored many times by hundreds of mothers was not surmountable by any means known to Kid-dom, but such as my mania, my desire for a Red Ryder carbine, that I immediately began to rebuild the dike.

So what part did you audition for, Shaky? (And don't tell me The Lamp!)

[MAK]

      Great job Shaky I could hear the guys voice as I read your posts! 

[Shaky]

So what part did you audition for, Shaky? (And don't tell me The Lamp!)

Ralphie's old man, of course.

Mother: All right. Now, are you ready to tell me where you heard that word?
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

[Bobbie Ireland]

So what part did you audition for, Shaky? (And don't tell me The Lamp!)

Ralphie's old man, of course.

Mother: All right. Now, are you ready to tell me where you heard that word?
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

Ahhhhhhh...

[Carol P.]

So what part did you audition for, Shaky? (And don't tell me The Lamp!)

Ralphie's old man, of course.

Mother: All right. Now, are you ready to tell me where you heard that word?
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

Shaky has a replica of The Lamp in his front window.   

[birdmusic]

My husband (who adores this movie) actually bought a Red Ryder BB Gun for my oldest son one Christmas.  I didn't know anything about it and, just like the movie, he hid it until all the presents were unwrapped. 

And...we have neighbors down the street who have that lamp in their window every Christmas!

[Shaky]

So what part did you audition for, Shaky? (And don't tell me The Lamp!)

Ralphie's old man, of course.

Mother: All right. Now, are you ready to tell me where you heard that word?
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

Shaky has a replica of The Lamp in his front window.   

I hang the Hallmark Lamp ornament on the tree every Christmas.