Ferret Down Your Trousers
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What is Ferret Legging? Is it myth or real. Apparently people in Yorkshire England like to stick a Ferret down their trousers as a sport. Will this be at the London 2012 Olympics. A sure gurantee of a gold medal for Great Britain.
We stumbled upon some recent comedy sketches from the 80's including Hale and Pace. It pokes fun of people from Yorkshire, England. One line in the song is "Ferret Dowm Me Trousers If You Please". But what does that mean exactly? Is it real?
Wikipedia explains...
Ferret legging is a sport that was allegedly practiced in Yorkshire, England, UK. It was first created by Donald Katz, in an humorous article entitled "King of the Ferret Leggers," in the October 1987 issue of Outside magazine.
The sport involves putting two ferrets inside one's trousers, having first tied one's trouser cuffs firmly to one's ankles, lest the ferrets escape. The competitor then cinches his belt tightly, and the clock is started. Competitors cannot be drunk or drugged, nor can the ferrets be drugged. In addition, competitors cannot wear underpants beneath their trousers, and the ferrets' teeth cannot be filed or otherwise blunted. Competitors can touch the ferrets, but only from the outside of the trousers.
The record-holder at the time of Katz' article was Reg Mellor, a 72-year-old retired miner from Barnsley in Yorkshire. In Katz's comic masterpiece, Mellor's winning time was five hours and twenty-six minutes of "keepin' 'em down." He did this on July 5, 1981 at the Annual Pennine Show at Holmfirth, Yorkshire. It was Mellor who instituted the practice of wearing white trousers in ferret-legging matches "to better show the blood."
We stumbled upon some recent comedy sketches from the 80's including Hale and Pace. It pokes fun of people from Yorkshire, England. One line in the song is "Ferret Dowm Me Trousers If You Please". But what does that mean exactly? Is it real?
Wikipedia explains...
Ferret legging is a sport that was allegedly practiced in Yorkshire, England, UK. It was first created by Donald Katz, in an humorous article entitled "King of the Ferret Leggers," in the October 1987 issue of Outside magazine.
The sport involves putting two ferrets inside one's trousers, having first tied one's trouser cuffs firmly to one's ankles, lest the ferrets escape. The competitor then cinches his belt tightly, and the clock is started. Competitors cannot be drunk or drugged, nor can the ferrets be drugged. In addition, competitors cannot wear underpants beneath their trousers, and the ferrets' teeth cannot be filed or otherwise blunted. Competitors can touch the ferrets, but only from the outside of the trousers.
The record-holder at the time of Katz' article was Reg Mellor, a 72-year-old retired miner from Barnsley in Yorkshire. In Katz's comic masterpiece, Mellor's winning time was five hours and twenty-six minutes of "keepin' 'em down." He did this on July 5, 1981 at the Annual Pennine Show at Holmfirth, Yorkshire. It was Mellor who instituted the practice of wearing white trousers in ferret-legging matches "to better show the blood."
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 Update:We found this book on amazon called The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories by Donald Katz
Only $2 bucks + shipping. Order your copy from Amazon.com - The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories  The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories collects journalist Donald Katz's most fascinating profiles of people whose lives tell us something about business, adventure, sports, politics, culture and, in a brilliant, ancillary way, ourselves. Katz's opening story and the title piece of the book offers a hilarious yet appropriately reverential look at 72-year old Reg Mellor, unparalleled "ferret legging" champion of Yorkshire and the world. Other characters who populate this book include fitness guru Jack LaLanne, legendary entrepreneur Paul Hawken, and master political cartoonist and inspired troublemaker Bill Mauldin. While this collection contains portraits that are varied in scene and tone, their depictions of obsession, delusion, perseverance, creativity, and good-heartedness (the list could go on and on) remain a constant. Each of these stories conveys a sense of the strangeness, wonder, and oddity of life -- a theme that provides a gravitational center to this multifarious selection drawn from twenty years of an award-winning non-fiction story-teller's body of work. |
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