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Weirdest annual event...?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 2008-06-25 15:06:42

http://travel.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=364312 Spotted this while looking for soemthing else, as is always the Tao of the Net, but it got me thinking: What's the weirdest annual (or any regualised interval) event/festival you've ever heard of or particiapted in? This could go anywhere, methinks....

25-06-2008 3:06pm

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http://travel.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=364312

Spotted this while looking for soemthing else, as is always the Tao of the Net, but it got me thinking:

What's the weirdest annual (or any regualised interval) event/festival you've ever heard of or particiapted in?

This could go anywhere, methinks....

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#2 25-06-2008 3:08pm

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I've always found your mothers annual shag-a-thon to be quite odd.

How a woman who looks like that manages to get a couple hundred lads in her on the same day I'll never understand...

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#3 25-06-2008 3:08pm

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All-Ireland Sheep Shearing Championships

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#4 25-06-2008 3:10pm

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Bog Snorkling.

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#5 25-06-2008 3:14pm

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That one in Spain where an entire town spends a day having a massive tomato fight

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#6 25-06-2008 3:15pm

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Wife carrying world championships in Finland.
http://www.sonkajarvi.fi/?deptid=15136
There's also one in Bavaria where you start off at the bottom of a mountain on a bike, have to visit breweries on the way up and drink a certain amount of beer(which goes up in volume the higher you go). At the top one you provide evidence you have drunk the required amount you get a cert. Sounds class, but I know I'd die.

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#7 25-06-2008 3:15pm

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Porridge Filled Wellingtons Marathon! i.e. you run a marathon wearing wellingtons filled with porridge!

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#8 25-06-2008 3:27pm

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Cliff Richard's attempts to get a Christmas No. 1 again.

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#9 25-06-2008 3:29pm

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javaboy wrote: »

Cliff Richard's attempts to get a Christmas No. 1 again.

He will too, I'm sure when he dies some radio station will launch a campaign:rolleyes:

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#10 25-06-2008 3:31pm

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#11 25-06-2008 3:38pm

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Pamplona.

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#12 25-06-2008 3:41pm

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The Shaving of the Geese

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#13 25-06-2008 4:09pm

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Shin-kicking in the Dordogne.

The Palio in Siena is one of the strangest I've participated in. If you count cheering on the winner, giving Mel Gibson the finger and getting trounced on free wine 'participating'.

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#14 25-06-2008 4:11pm

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=OpzEF0D2xfE

This has to be a contender, running down a hill after some cheese.

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#15 25-06-2008 4:13pm

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The one where parents encourage their children to sit on an an old mans lap, and proceed to enquire him what his sack is filled with.

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#16 25-06-2008 4:49pm

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Cool_CM wrote: »

He will too, I'm sure when he dies some radio station will launch a campaign:rolleyes:

Ray Foley ftw :rolleyes:

Oga no Namahage

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#17 25-06-2008 4:51pm

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charlie mchugh wrote: »

The one where parents encourage their children to sit on an an old mans lap, and proceed to enquire him what his sack is filled with.

Annual? But my uncle..... :eek: oh no

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#18 25-06-2008 6:30pm

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#19 25-06-2008 6:48pm

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RATM wrote: »

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OpzEF0D2xfE

This has to be a contender, running down a hill after some cheese.

Was thinking of that one myself.

Also a notable mention has to go to Cheese Racing

Another one would be tough guyhttp://www.toughguy.co.uk/home.shtml
(Click on the course and go through the various sections) Gruelling stuff

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#20 25-06-2008 6:55pm

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High Heels Race (minimum 3.5 inches) in Amsterdam - winner got seven thousand euro in shopping vouchers.

Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu - winner gets a real guitar.

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#21 25-06-2008 7:24pm

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#22 25-06-2008 7:41pm

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Steak and BJ Day... not weird but... smiley face.

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#23 25-06-2008 8:11pm

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#24 25-06-2008 8:18pm

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Stumbled across Australia's Next Top Pooch when going for a walk in Port Melbourne. Very funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG8ZX5RxGuk

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#25 25-06-2008 8:34pm

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The Hamilton Walk

Maths enthusiasts from NUIM go on a 'pilgrimage' to Broom Bridge along the royal canal in dublin where they proceed to actually sing Happy Birthday to the site where he carved his famous quaternion equations.

they have been doing this anually since 1989!!!

Beat that!

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#26 25-06-2008 8:40pm

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it was dwarf tossing but i think thats illegal now....PC baskets!

now its that envent where 30 fellas run around a field with sticks, on the northside of dublin watched by nearly 80,000 people......strange feckers!

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#27 25-06-2008 8:46pm

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taidghbaby wrote: »

it was dwarf tossing but i think thats illegal now....PC baskets!

now its that envent where 30 fellas run around a field with sticks, on the northside of dublin watched by nearly 80,000 people......strange feckers!

Northside weddings happen everyday.

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#28 25-06-2008 8:55pm

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truecrippler wrote: »

Northside weddings happen everyday.

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#29 25-06-2008 9:03pm

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I'd say the World Mobile Phone throwing Championships

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