A small red-and-white box sled rests on a curved blue glass chute amid scattered ice-like fragments.

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Robin Williams

What drunken, German gynecologist invented this sport? What guy went, “I want to dress like a sperm, shove an ice skate up my ass, and ride balls first down an ice chute. Ya. That would be fun.” ?

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The speaker imagines a grotesquely enthusiastic inventor describing the sport in bodily terms. The fictional explanation replaces athletic dignity with an absurd sequence of clothing, ice and exposed vulnerability. Its extravagant question and invented reply make the activity sound ridiculous through deliberate exaggeration.

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