At the risk of beating a dead horse, I saw this on the BBC web site just now.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2273006.stmThe Brits won this year's Extreme Ironing contest!! Tim, I really do think that you should get a team together.
OK, I'm moving house today, so it's time to deal with teh chaos. Hopefully I'll get my new internet connection with no problems, and until then, happy running!
Cheers,
Hild
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When's the house-warming party then?
Tim has been very quiet about this... perhaps the national team coach did not think that his creases were as straight as they could be?
tim is a national authority on the subject- possibly even the chairman of selectors.
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That sit really.
Oh and Hildegard's moved and is having a house warming.
They worked flat out.
Still no internet connection yet (I'm at the uni), since the NTL guys keep getting it wrong. Hopefully soon though...
In STARCH reality though, I don't think they will... They've been taken over by NPower
wow! what heros SNATCH and BASKET were, Ironing atop the aiguille rouge having climbed up there with the stuff.
But they're being challenged by the outdoor vacuumists (sponsor -= electrolux). but there's the dilemma:
Speed = big wheels and high ground clearance
cleaning = small wheels and low clearance
Roll on the vacuumists 10k. I'm sure PB would be happy to get a URWFRC team together? Maybe even the windsor crew could do a trial.....
time to leave
Ah, I love being a Brit. When I lived in the US, I never fit in, but here, eccentricity's the word, yes!!
You just gotta check out their website too - www.extremeironing.com
"Ironing can be dangerous, even in the domestic environment"
To the Marketing Director of Electrolux: "Would you consider designing a new vaccuum cleaner especially for this sport?", "Yes, it's something we'd definitely want to look into"
I thought the Urban Housework games were rubbish - it was like a bad episode of "Jackass" (is there such a thing as a GOOD episode of "Jackass"?).
The Germans were making it up as they went along though, weren't they? Just before the games, they announce that you have to use their irons and not your own, that the irons will be heated, that you'll be marked on the quality of your ironing - all of which was news to the guys who'd invented the sport in the first place!
It's on Old English and Old Norse religious prose. Yes, I have a knack for finding the most obscure topics in the world. Sorry to hear that your bacteria stink, but if you're work might cure a disease or do something similarly good in time, then I'd say it's worth it. If my books stank, there would be no way forward.