Tongue

Sunday, December 26, 2021

We'll continue our not-much-is-happening-at-UC-this weekend with more seasonal offerings. The movie - A Christmas Story - which came out in the 1980s and is now something of a cult classic - is actually a compilation of radio stories told by Jean Shepherd, who was on the radio in New York City from the 1950s into the 1970s. His stories, which would have taken place in the late 1920s and 1930s, but were reset in the movie during the 1940s, supposedly took place in his hometown of Hammond, Indiana. One of the famous episodes in the movie is the tongue scene in which a schoolboy is dared to put his tongue in freezing winter on a flagpole to see if it will become stuck, a legend has it. Click on link below:

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeJXYhdfR6Q. The original radio version is more elaborate. Part 1:

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flPekoGPGd0. Link to Part 2:

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk-anf8u-aE. Hammond has erected a statue commemorating the "event":