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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-03 09:36 PM
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Merry ChristmAss
Edited on Thu Dec-25-03 09:38 PM by forradalom
Matcom's Christmas swim.




Two members of Berlin's ice swimming club 'Berliner Seehunde' (Berlin seals) take a dip in the frozen water of the Oranke lake (Orankesee) December 25, 2003. Several members of the swimming club met on Thursday for their traditional weekly ice swimming meeting. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (Yahoo! News Photos)
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RecoveringAsshole Donating Member (52 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-03 09:40 PM
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1. Brrrrr!
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-03 10:17 PM
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2. Talk about yer shrinkage.
Whoa.

"Ahn-est Greta, eet's frum dah cold vater. Yah, dat's eet."
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-03 11:26 PM
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5. The joke in the U.P. is..
"Men don't drown in Lake Superior, they choke on ascending gonads."
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-03 10:21 PM
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3. WEEKLY?!?
the nuts only do it here on Jamuary 1st. and here i mean Milwaukee and they do it lk. Mich. BRRRRR.
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LeftPeopleFinishFirst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-03 11:01 PM
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4. haha
People do that here on New Year's Eve

It's called the Polar Bear Club.

No, we're not hicks, we just live in the Adirondacks.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-03 11:31 PM
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6. In Boston they're called the L Street Brownies
Francis Dahl, a Boston cartoonist of the 40s and 50s, wrote about them, and a Google search shows that they're still around--this New Year's Day will be their 100th annual foray into Boston Harbor. BRRRR!
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