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On-Yomi: キョク、ゴク — Kun-Yomi: きわ.める、きわ.まる、きわ.まり、きわ.み、き.める、-ぎ.め、き.まる
Koohii stories:
1) [Katsuo] 13-4-2007(362): Can simplify this using decay (#1243 朽). Then: The expedition to the poles is bad for your health, and the decay that started in your mouth spreads to your crotch – at which point you fall to the floor.
2) [rtkrtk] 17-3-2008(101): (modified Katsuo) Can simplify this using decay (#1243 朽). You travel to the poles, a frozen wasteland. In desperate need of food you try to set up a snare but the tree is decayed (see story for decay (#1243 朽)) so you catch no prey. The brutal cold first attacks your mouth as your lips turn blue, then your crotch also gets cold as your body fails; finally you fall to the floor.
3) [ayoung24] 24-12-2006(20): Santa Claus (from the North Pole, of course), has a wooden sled led by reindeer snared at the mouth. One unfortunate night, he jumps down a chimney and burns his crotch on a piece of coal as he hits the floor.
4) [akrodha] 12-6-2007(7): The diverging magnetic fields at the poles actually attract cosmic radioactive decay, particularly the kind that causes cancer in the lips or the testicles. But don't worry, you can protect either your mouth or your crotch by digging a hole in the ground and covering it up. Which part do you protect? Imagine coming back home with cancer in the other, unprotected part.
5) [Aeryon] 16-1-2012(4): I remember sharing this joke on the playground back in 1986. "Did you ear about the dumb polak who climbed a tall tree to see both poles? On the way up, stepped in his own snare, fell to the floor and ended up with his crotch in his own mouth. Then he said seeing his own crotch in his mouth… that's not the pole I wanted to see!".