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This is the stone-skipping world record, set by a man called Russ who only decided to start the sport by the promise of fudge.
Donal once entered the British stone-skipping contest under the pseudonym 'Skimminy Cricket.'
Donal got 8 skips. Russ got 51.
Last year Stephen Fry made a TV series for the BBC called Secret Life of the Manic Depressive in which he divulged his spending habits during his manic episodes. Without going into details, he owns a lot of gadgets, particularly those made by Apple.
Now he's just started a personal blog, and his first entry is about all the gadgets he owns. And judging by the length of the post, it looks like he might be a little manic again.
Nothing like a bit of mid-week mockery. Someone has created a BBC website template to freak your friends out with. I suggest niggling their greatest fears.
When most people think of a Most Wanted list, we generally think of these sort of guys - alleged murderers, terrorists and the like.
In Yorkshire, however, it doesn't take quite so much to become Most Wanted - who would've thought you could make it onto the list by allegedly committing a cake-based crime? Well, you can, just like this man:
Much as I hate to say it, I just can't stop playing this...
A totally baffling Japanese advertisement with Arnie at its centre, laughing like it's election day. Amazing.
Finally, a sketch worth playing twice. Bang Bang Bang!
I thought I'd seen it all. But unfortunately not.
There's a new shock site on the scene, and although I always thought that goatse was a bit lame, this one really does knock you on the floor, and consumes your mind for about a week. 2 Girls 1 Cup is its name, and I'd say speculating rather than watching is probably for the best. So much so that I'm not even providing a link here, but instead just the first in a series of videos of people watching it. Uuuuurrrrg.
Faintly reminiscent of our own stunt, there's a new game in London town, known as the Soho Project.
The idea goes that you have to film yourself completing one of their 'tasks' (organise a tug of war, pimp a bench) for 'points.' So far, so whimsical. But the interest lies in that you must declare when you're out filming, and if anyone else playing the game films you then you both get more points. BUT if one of the games 'saboteurs' manages to get in your final video then your points are halved, and they get your points. And there's some sort of Facebook widget that ties it all together, which is where you form your teams.
Reminds me of this (by WOW, naturally):
A few year ago I was happy slapped, which wasn't at all a pleasurable experience. Thankfully the muggers of London have taken the plight of me and my wide-eyed, wide-pocketed contemporaries to heart, and have created a more enjoyable form of releasing cash from strangers.
The name of their game is Huggy Muggy, as demonstrated in the image from this week's Time Out. As as you emerge from a pub, a slightly weird looking man asks for a hug. Such a warm gesture in this cold city! you think. Others pile in as you embrace. It's a big heap of love. So much so that you don't notice all your possessions being nicked.
Good on them I say.
People are saying that this really happened on the BBC last week. I remain unconvinced.
I'd heard about this, but it's only now that someone has uploaded the evidence that we can all really appreciate how great it is. It's the visual record of the reason Top Gear DILF James May was sacked by the incredibly enraged editors of Autocar Magazine. James had grown irritated by having to make up that year's "Road Test Yearbook" - so he did what any man would do in the situation, and concocted a 2-month long scheme to secretly show the world exactly what he thought.
"On the day that it came out I'd actually forgotten that I'd done it because there's a bit of a gap between it being "put to bed" and coming out on the shelves. When I arrived at work that morning everybody was looking at their shoes and I was summoned to the managing director of the company's office. The thing had come out and nobody at work had spotted what I'd done because I'd made the words work around the pages so you never saw a whole word. But all the readers had seen it and they'd written in thinking they'd won a prize or a car or something."
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