Well, if you actually do try Google, you come up with:
Cracked.com article on "baffling sports"
Fordham Observer"Caring for your pet ferret""History of the Ferret" from veterinarypartner.com
QUOTE
Ferret Legging. This silly English pub sport has been around for centuries, but fortunately is no longer common. The contestant must tie his trousers legs securely around the ankles, then place two ferrets that have full sets of teeth down his pants, and finally tie the waist of his trousers securely closed. If a ferret bites, it can only be dislodged from the outside of the pants. The object is to be the person that keeps the ferrets in his pants the longest. In 1983 a 72-year old Yorkshire man withstood the ferrets for 5 hours and 26 minutes.
Houston Press, 2007foxey.orgQUOTE
During Medieval times, placing a hungry, fully-clawed ferret down the pants of a prisoner was used as a torture device.
FYI: a lot of people think it was a gag that originated with the Outside magazine article.
Here's a
really stupid one--that contradicts itself.
And btw, the ferret-legging article has been up for deletion before.
May 2006August 2006Here it is, being discussed on the snopes.com messageboard--in 2007.
There ya go, WP smartasses. More references.
is this article going to be AFDed again and again in the future??
Ferret legging up for deletion
