# Trivial Pursuit and sleepy legs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-pursuit-and-sleepy-legs/123615>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 13, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-pursuit-and-sleepy-legs/123615 "2002-08-13T00:17:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-pursuit-and-sleepy-legs/123615/1 "2002-08-13T00:17:35Z")

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I chuckled as I read the column on [legs falling asleep](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_086a.html), especially when I noticed the date of February 10, 1984, during Trivial Pursuit’s heyday.

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-pursuit-and-sleepy-legs/123615/2 "2002-08-13T03:07:42Z")

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Box office for the weekend of February 10-12, 1984. How many of these movies have we still not gotten around to watching yet?  
[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/w021084.html](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/w021084.html)

Unfaithfully Yours  
Terms of Endearment  
Silkwood  
Never Cry Wolf  
Reckless  
Angel  
Sudden Impact  
Hot Dog… The Movie  
Weekend Pass  
Scarface  
Yentl  
Star 80  
Uncommon Valor  
Broadway Danny Rose  
The Right Stuff

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**Author:** ![ghengiskahn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@ghengiskahn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghengiskahn)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-pursuit-and-sleepy-legs/123615/3 "2002-08-13T03:16:15Z")

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Sure,

But I have found that on occasion that I will awake in the middle of the night to find a cold lifeless thing on my face . . . my hand. It is cold to the touch (with the other hand) and is completely without feeling. It usually recovers within a few minutes both temp and sensation. So is the ulnar pinch described in the answer responsible for the change in temp for that area of the body or have I somehow cut off my own blood flow as well as pinched my Ulnar nerve?

Have fun

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**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-pursuit-and-sleepy-legs/123615/4 "2002-08-13T18:03:50Z")

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**ghengi** , that was my question too. Is a cold limb a danger sign?

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-pursuit-and-sleepy-legs/123615/5 "2002-08-13T20:21:19Z")

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On your face? Well, offhand I would notice that your hand is higher than your heart. Now normally that isn’t a problem (or you’d never be conscious), but in a sleep state your heart is at a slow rate and soft beat (as opposed to pounding hard after a good run). So couple that with perhaps a poor circulation, and that would help lead to a cold hand. As for why it’s numb, perhaps it is pinched, too?

But that’s just speculation on my part.