Weird flexibility question

It's been pointed out to me that one position I can get into is not exactly usual.

I'm curious as to how many other folks can do it and if there's a difference based on sex.

To start you'll need a large flat surface to lie on. Say a double bed or the floor. And either really loose clothing or noe.

Lie on your back.

Now, bend your knees and try to put the soles of your feet together.

Once the soles are touching, can you keep them touching while letting your knees touch the bed/floor. '

If you can your legs should be making a diamond shape, with the "outer" sides in full contact with the bed/floor.

I forget why I tried doing this years back, but I recall that when I started, my knees were 6-12 inches above the bed. Took work to get them flat.

So is this something most folks can do or not?

Dumb newscritters

Watching the 11 pm *local* news here, one of the anchors made a comment about it being 50 minutes until the New Year here and then went on to say sometime about the celebration in NYC which had been "about an hour ago".

I live in Oregon. There's a *three* hour time difference from NYC. By his comment, he obviously thought there was only a 2 hour difference.

Gives you *ever* so much confidence when they get basic stuff like that wrong. Add in the way they can't seem to see obvious errors in stuff they'be been told by one side or another when covering politics and you'll understand why I don't really expect much from the news. :-(