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A little history for Anne Elk, ironweed, and other football fans.
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
According to a new history of English football titled Those Feet, football
- "was invented in Victorian public schools to keep boys from masturbating. The idea was that if boys were out on the field expending energy together, they could never be alone to engage in 'self pollution.' ...
The war on masturbation tailed off in the 1920s. Not much later the British empire fell."
via Wolcott
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The boob-grabber was South American. Hmmmm, I think I need to do more research.
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