Hello Bart, you wrote at 17.08.2010 18:53

On Aug 17, 12:38 am, Marian wrote:
airfield. Usually the ones with the most thorns are selected. Then they
are given a good slap on the bottom from everyone present. That
supposedly is for calibration.
Found a video of such a ceremony athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZSmBddTo_M. Starts at 5:30.

The ceremony clearly involved a bucket of water being poured down the
victim's pants!

that's necessary for cooling purposes after those "some" slaps ...

regards
Werner