Tuesday, January 18, 2005

It's Colder Than A...

Witch's tit or a snowman's balls? That was the erudite debate I had last night. In case you don't live here in the City, we've been having unusually warm weather for January. For example, last week we had a day or two in the 60s. The 60s! But yesterday the temperature dropped to the teens, below 0 wind chill. So it was a lot colder than we'd been used to.

So we were walking to the Banshee for an after dinner drink when the subject of how cold it was came up. Jen said it was colder than a snowman's balls; I said it was colder than a witch's tit. We were thus at an impasse. Which was colder? We settled on the snowman's balls but for entirely different reasons. Jen maintained that the witch's tit would be at normal body temperature whereas part of the function of the testes is to maintain a temperature slightly less than 98.6 (95 I think) in order for sperm to be happy. I claimed that a tit would have a much lower temperature than 98.6 because external body temperature is significantly different than internal body temperature. However, a witch's tit is only metaphorically cold whereas the snowman's balls are literally made of snow and ice and would therefore be colder in general.

Now it's your turn: what's colder, a witch's tit or a snowman's balls? And why?

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