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What if you were in a closed room with a fan AND you were covered in paint??

... and dodging the armadillos and roaches...

"Don't you suffocate if you're covered in paint?"
This did happen in that "Goldfinger" movie, but not in real life. Not being amphibians, we breathe with our lungs, not through our skin.
Having some kinds of paint all over you could have bad effects on your health (lead poinsoning, for example), but asphyxiation would not be one of your problems.

The whole Goldfinger 'covered in paint' thing confused me as a kid; if it was the case that you could kill somebody by denying their skin of air, shouldn't wet-suited frogment also die? From what I remember of the book, Oddjob breaks the girl's neck and *then* covers her in paint, although I could be very much mistaken.

I'd go with Ashley. Read her website, she REALLY likes Bond. It's been like 15 years since I've seen it, so I don't remember for sure...

Gary,
I only mentioned the paint thing because it was on another "Mythbuster" episode that they busted that myth.

Yeah, Mom always told me that if I turned the fan on and kept the window open at night in summer I'd catch a cold. It's one of those old wive's tales, like how they say bubblegum stays in your gut for 20 years.

I guess tongue thing came from India. I read that Indian yogis do the same thing. Why? To allow tongue to roll inside and press backside of the mouth. Though, on the contrary this position helps to keep inner silence.

About body paint - look at divers they put rubber suits and spend hours under water.

Touching the subject of tongue cutting. My mother took my new born sister to see her great-grandmother who was probably born in the 1870's in a remote part of Derbyshire, Northern England.

The old lady insisted that my sister was "tongue tied" because of the taughtness of her frenulum and wanted to cut it with scissors. My mother resisted this strenuously and it was not done. This must have been about 1957.

I have not noticed that my sister ever had any subsequent problems with her speech. Far from it!

About how fans cool you, there's another effect beyond the evaporation of perspiration.

Since your body generates heat, the air near you gets hotter than the air in the rest of the room (regardless of the ambient temperature). Unless you're sleeping outdoors, in the absence of a fan this heat-build-up effect slows down cooling. A fan moves new (ambient temp) air next to you, so your body can more efficiently give up its heat.

Alex, I think Rod explained what I meant about the cooling/non-cooling temp of a fan.

"I only mentioned the paint thing because it was on another "Mythbuster" episode that they busted that myth" ...

I figured you were kidding, but it seems sad that anyone could actually believe such a thing, so that it would have to be busted.

they believe a lot...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4347443.stm

Here's the same article, with all of the facts scrubbed out...
http://www.arirangtv.com/korean/news/news_body.asp?news_no=57275&title=Life

And here's "an objective view about Korean culture".
http://www.koreainfonet.com/

"Dog meat dispute resurfaces
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2005-03-13 23:34.
A government decision to impose strict regulations on processing and selling dog meat has reignited an old controversy over the traditional Koreans' practice of eating dog meat.
The Cabinet last Wednesday decided to draft measures that prohibit any brutal slaughtering of dogs and set hygiene guidelines on the processing and sale of dog meat."

Oh, and on the same website...

"Volunteers hold online campaign for correct info about Korea
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2005-03-09 00:08.

About 15,000 members of the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), backed by 3,000 foreign members, have waged an online campaign to help foreigners have a better understanding of Korea."

I guess 18,000 people was not enough...

And how does putting Robert Service quotes qualify as Korean culture????

"Daily Quote

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out – it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

Robert Service"

I mentioned the dog meat question recently to my English as a Second Language class for adults, which right now is made up almost entirely of Koreans, and they acted very surprised and emphatically and unanimously decalred that no one in Korea eats dogs.
Then the oldest member of the class spoke up though, and said that back during the war, when food was very scarce, some people did eat dogs.

I guess in a famine, most of us would eat dogs if necessary, but in my students' opinion, dog meat is not a part of traditional Korean cuisine.

Well, where do i start? I'm american, and married to a Korean. I knew about fan death and always knew it was kind of BS, if you will, so i never gave it much attention. Until one day when me and my wife went to visit her sister, who lives in an one-room apartment. It was summer, and summer in korea is hot, no i mean HOT. So we had to the fan running all day but as we laid down to go to sleep my sister-in-law turned it off. I politely asked that we keep it on as it was so hot, forgetting all about the murderous intentions that implied. In complete conviction and half horror she told me that was simply impossible. Then i remembered, so i tactifully told them, my wife was on her side, that they were full of shit. After three hours of arguing and pulling emails off the net from British, American, and Austraillian doctors of the absurdity of the "Fan Death" they were not at all convinced b/c they had statements from KOREAN doctors that stated otherwise. So in short, yes it's fascinating but you will never EVER convince them....think about it black cats are bad luck, right?

and oh yeah, buy the way...the reality show thing..i'm SERIOUSLY working on that...this is no shit...i'm talking to KBS now about getting on TV in a room with a fan...of course it's difficult convincing the TV Station that i'm not trying to commit suicide on national television...they are actually co-ordinating to see if they can have doctors on stand-by before they can OK this project, or else they won't do it.