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Did You Know? – Spit’s Finest Hour?


   bands with spit in the 1970s. “The interesting thing about punk spitting was that it was supposed to be friendly, a gesture of solidarity. It was a clever inversion by the punk audience: if you call us disgusting, we’ll show you that we can be disgusting. -


tars, however, and if you look at the footage of the period – there is some of The Clash in 1977 – they are operating in a hail of spit. Completely disgusting.” In fact, Joe Strummer, the Clash’s lead zinger, caught hepatitis, believed to have resulted from swallowing a glob of spat phlegm.


their hawking on the benches and in the penalty box, yet the issue persisted. Several school groups followed the adult hockey sessions,  up their skates.   -


sanitary. Other players are walking into the players’ benches and they’re stepping on spit, or they might be brushing along the side of the bench, and they get spit on their uniform.”  after installing the signs, eight or 10 large gobs of spit were laid below    


had no other choice but to bar the adult players. 


when dealing with pools of spit. If professional athletes are empow- ered to challenge their opponents with spittle, the tolerance of spit-   emergency or a shift in cultural norms for the practice to be curtailed. But for now, the identity of our heroic athletes resonates as they pound  FM


Glen Mikkelsen, CFE, is general manager of the CN Centre in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.


IAVM 29 IAVM 29


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