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chest rockwell · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Sanbon

and all the windows closed.

If I make it out the other side I will post on here tomorrow.

Wish me luck.

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

I wish Satori would do that.

joyfulgirl · Joined: 05 Jan 2006

good lord, don't do it man...let's talk about what's bothering you. fan death is the coward's way out.

chest rockwell · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Sanbon

Im sorry this has to be done. For science. Spiral out.

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:06 am Post subject:

i've done it in the winter here many times

but my korean coworkers say that doesn't count

fan death comes from summertime use of fans with windows closed

why the heck would someone close their window in summertime? i say

i have slept in the summer with the windows closed and fan on, several times, but the air conditioner was also on at the same time, and my coworkers say that's the difference Rolling Eyes

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:09 am Post subject:

to those who know how to speak Korean well:

how do you say: "I sleep with the fan on and window closed"

i want to get a t-shirt made with that phrase in hanguel

seriously

help me out

chest rockwell · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Sanbon

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

When you live to update us, Koreans will say that your body condition is different. They will say that most Koreans have low blood pressure, which makes the difference. You will become, to Koreans, the exception to the rule (as will any foreigner who does it).

I always thought this would make a good cartoon:

Scene: Police are in an apartment (everything is strewn about) and a person is on the floor with several knives in his back. One policeman points to a running fan and closed windows and says, "Obviously, it's fan death."

chest rockwell · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Sanbon

The battle between man and fan has been won.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

LOL.

Congratulations.

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

mishlert · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun

We send this Korean urban legend to The Myth Busters.

chest rockwell · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Sanbon

EFLtrainer · Joined: 04 May 2005

I'd hazzard a guess that "fan death" is the result of carbon monoxide poisoning, or the rare but real suffocating in your own flatulance. Or, better yet, a combination of extreme drunkenness, the cooking of samgyupsal (thus, the carbon monoxide), and the resulting flatulance.

Smile

mishlert · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun

When I've told Koreans that I have slept in a closed room with the fan on, I was told that I did not die bcause I'm not Korean Shocked