Ice Bucket Challenge Done the Civilized Way

In which Chris "Slick" Ford challenges me, and I accept.

In turn, I challenge Valerie, Diddi and Stefan.
You know who you are.

h/t to Sir Patrick Stewart for illustrating how to properly take on such challenges.

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Very classy, I like how you fortified yourself before the shock.

On the other hand you would be doing us all a favor to get those legs out into the sun a bit. Those are "frog-belly-white". So white they throw off the color balance.

The extra vitamin-D will do you a world of good.

No.
Not happening.
There might be some things I do for my readers, but sunburn to assuage aesthetic sensibilities ain't one of them...
I don't tan.