...Where you can stick that whistle

[mick]

Originally posted by Simbio
I'm a football official so please forgive the ignorance, but do you keep the whistle in your mouth the whole time? What do you do on inadvertant whistles?

Except for the jump ball, an occasional word with a participant, to lick lips, during time-outs.

I just push it out with my tongue on a dead ball, but I hold it during a live ball. Having one of those stringy things keeps it going in the right direction.

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Remember those *idiot strings* for mittens that went through both arms of a coat, attached to both mittens, so the mitten(s) would not get lost get lost when the coat was removed?
I lost the coat.