Ferret legging up for deletion Options

[Emperor]

Ferret legging could be deleted from Wikipedia.

Luckily, it is now safe at Encyc.

[Kato]

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Delete If this was a real "sport" it would show up in more than one source. Steve Dufour (talk) 18:48, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

It very much is a real sport. I don't think it goes on much if at all anymore, but - ridiculous as it sounds - it was a regular novelty act and was (alongside gurning) the kind of thing that would go on in small village fairs.

[No one of consequence]

Someone has written:

Delete If this was a real "sport" it would show up in more than one source. Steve Dufour (talk) 18:48, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

It very much is a real sport. I don't think it goes on much if at all anymore, but - ridiculous as it sounds - it was a regular novelty act and was (alongside gurning) the kind of thing that would go on in small village fairs.

Multiple hits in LexisNexis in the US, Canada and Australia. In the US, appears to be a novelty sport held at Scottish, Celtic or Highland Games-type of festivals/fairs.

* PLAN AHEAD. No animals are harmed in the sport of ferret-legging. Is the same true for participants who put a live weasel down their pants? Find out about this odd activity Oct. 25-26 at the Richmond Highland Games and Celtic Festival, where there will also be rugby games and large men hurling telephone poles (that's caber tossing). Nip some whisky to the sounds of the Glengarry Bhoys and Seven Nations.

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[Eva Destruction]

Someone has written:

Delete If this was a real "sport" it would show up in more than one source. Steve Dufour (talk) 18:48, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

It very much is a real sport. I don't think it goes on much if at all anymore, but - ridiculous as it sounds - it was a regular novelty act and was (alongside gurning) the kind of thing that would go on in small village fairs.

Multiple hits in LexisNexis in the US, Canada and Australia. In the US, appears to be a novelty sport held at Scottish, Celtic or Highland Games-type of festivals/fairs.

Anyone who remembers That's Life! in the 1980s - or has seen the repeats on cable - will know this is genuine. I despair of the "it's not on Google so it doesn't exist!" brigade.

[Cock-up-over-conspiracy]

Ee, by gum ... who'd have known that your everyday Yorkshireman could have taught Richard Gere something about small furry creatures?

Anyone who remembers That's Life! in the 1980s - or has seen the repeats on cable - will know this is genuine. I despair of the "it's not on Google so it doesn't exist!" brigade.

The other problem being that the ... "it's not on Google so it doesn't exist! brigade" were born after the 1980s too.

They spend so long in their bedrooms Wiki-pee-ding that they have no idea what goes on in the world.

It just depresses me more ... "All the World's Knowledge®" ruled by a mob of teenage "Randy from Boise, Idaho" type police cadets and scout masters who are anything but 'getting randy' which is part of their problem.

Just out of interest, did you know that only 0.77% of the Boise population is African American? A similar statistic to the number of African or African American Wikipedians, I'd should guess.

I read it on the Wiki ... um, Google ... um, Wiki ... um, Wikipediareview ... so it must be true.

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