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Six Minnesota Kids Take The Triple Dog Dare

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It played out just like the classic scene from the movie “A Christmas Story” — minus the triple-dog dare. But it didn’t happen just once.

In the past two weeks, six curious kids at a Roseville elementary school learned the painful lesson of what happens when you stick your tongue to a frozen pole.

It hurts. A lot. More

12 Comments on Six Minnesota Kids Take The Triple Dog Dare

  1. Kids have done this since the freezing of the first steel pole.
    The talk among kids I grew up with was that if you did it, the best way out was to let the other kids pee on it. Freezing injuries were wisely avoided.

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  2. It was commonplace in the Montana of my youth, a half century ago, for this to happen. It isn’t newsworthy.

    A towel and pot of hot, but not too hot, water is how it is dealt with.

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  3. ok children, put your books down. today’s we’re going to learn what we call an ‘object’ lesson. it’s ‘learning by someone’s example’.

    now, what did little Nimrod’s actions with the flag pole teach us today? … anyone? … anyone?

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