Published on: 08 Nov 08:24

Eli asks

What should I think that happened?

ETA - people, I know about IVF. I am looking for bad, funny explanations.

My answer

There was an American Civil War urban legend about a spectacularly lucky/unlucky musket ball (depending on your attitude). The ball allegedly got fired normally during the course of a battle. It impacted into some poor schmuck's balls (and incidentally, "schmuck" is both Yiddish for "foreskin" and German for "jewellery", seriously, not kidding, google it), ricocheted at a high angle off something rock-hard (here's hoping it's his cock), soared over the battlefield in a huge ballistic arc and into a crowd of spectators, and hit a second poor femme-schmuck in not her schmuck but her womb.

So far, so good, right? Well. The first impact had, according to the legend, slurped enough sperm off Schmuck One's balls and into Schmuck Two's womb that it got Schmuck Two pregnant.

I have an extremely dim childhood memory of the Mythbusters crew discussing testing this. The memory insists that although Kari Byron was game, and even brought along half a dozen of her favourite muskets and a keg of black powder, at the last second her male colleagues chickened out of getting their balls shot off and then reattached a thousand times over to ensure proper statistical rigour. Who says science is dull, eh?

Maybe that happened here?

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