The tongue on Court Nine's net-post

texture · REF: last New Year's

• When: "last New Year's" relative to 20 Nov YDAU — pre-story event, most plausibly the New Year's boundary ~10.5 months before (inference; see Dating notes).
• What: Rader and others once got Ingersoll to touch his tongue to a frozen net-post; he lost the tip of it. Stice invokes the episode while stuck by his own forehead to a window — "Just like remember when Rader and them got Ingersoll to touch his tongue on that net-post last New Year's?" — noting Ingersoll got off comparatively lightly: "He only did lose that smidgeon off the tip." Hal's own memory confirms and extends it: "that piece of Ingersoll's tongue on Nine's net-post that stayed there til spring." One more entry in the running ledger of things E.T.A. kids do to Evan Ingersoll, and the earliest.