From the Times online:
10. World's Biggest Liar Championship - With a first prize of £100,000 and a lifetime supply of beer, entrants have between two and five minutes to convince a panel of judges that their lie sounds the most credible.
9. World Gurning Championships - The flip side to Miss World, where competitors work their way through a repertoire of extreme face pulling, contorting their everyday look into the grotesque, in the hope of impressing the panel of judges.
8. World Crazy Golf Championships - With a £1000 first prize, this is one wacky event to take very seriously. Semi-professionals and utter no hopers mingle over a hectic weekend, playing three rounds of both crazy golf and mini golf.
7. Westleton Barrel Fair. - Armed with a six-foot oak stick, the idea is to prod the metal beer barrel down the village green and then back up (ladies only have to race downhill), covering a distance of around 50 metres.
6. Brambles Cricket Match - Once a year a sandbank appears in the middle of The Solent, and two local yacht clubs take full advantage of this odd venue to play what is probably the world’s quickest cricket match.
5. World Bog Snorkelling Championships - Equipped with only a mask, snorkel and flippers, competitors must make their way up and down a 60-yard bog in the middle of a remote field in the middle of Wales. There’s just one snag…no recognised swimming stroke is permitted, so expect to see plenty of doggy paddle and belly flop crawl.
4. World Nettle Eating Championships - 'Ugh…don’t nettles sting?’ Yes they do, but that’s the least of your worries once you’ve stubbornly devoured over thirty feet of nettles in one hour of competitive nettle scoffing…the weed is also a very efficient laxative.
3. Totnes Orange Races. - Every year during the Elizabethan celebrations in Totnes competitors participate in a fast and very furious running race down the town’s steep high street…chasing after an orange. The idea is to be the first person to cross the finishing line at the bottom, still in possession of their own orange, but with one tricky race rule: you can only kick or throw the orange as you run along, absolutely no holding allowed. Not as easy as it sounds.
2. World Worm Charming Championships. - For 364 days a year it’s an idyllic bliss for the worms that reside under a school field in Cheshire. But on one June afternoon all hell breaks loose as 144 teams of two spend 30 minutes on the charm offensive, attempting to lure as many worms as they can out of the ground.
1. World Gravy Wrestling Championships - A paddling pool in a pub beer garden, alongside a bowling green, provides the incongruous setting for the prestigious Gravy Wrestling Championships. The aim is to wrestle your opponent into submission however judges also award points for humour and penalize competitors for force-feeding.
Full Article HereAnyone ever been to any of these? Or anything similarly ridiculous?!
The 10 Best Silly Events in Britain
Aug 26 2009, 05:23 PM
