|
|
|
|
bburgoyne26
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
Posts: 2959
Location: Ft. Worth, Texas
|
| Back to top
|
|
 Posted: 05/30/05 - 22:06 Post subject: Chasing Cheese?
and they say Texans have weird contests?
What is up with these Brits?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=803665
LONDON May 30, 2005 — Contestants in a traditional British cheese rolling competition broke bones and took skin off knees and elbows Monday in their pursuit of a giant piece of cheese down a steep hill.
The competition, in which participants hurl themselves 640 feet down a hill after an eight-pound piece of cheese, has been celebrated for centuries in Gloucestershire, northwest of London.
|
|
|
|
|
airehead
Oompa Loofah
|
|
|
Joined: 12 Nov 2002
Posts: 18788
Location: Between here and eternity...
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 05/30/05 - 22:17 Post subject:
I guess that's one way to celebrate the end of a long, cold, dreary winter. 
|
|
|
|
|
bburgoyne26
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
Posts: 2959
Location: Ft. Worth, Texas
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 05/30/05 - 22:22 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | I guess that's one way to celebrate the end of a long, cold, dreary winter. |
but it sounds like they break more bones than the people do during running with the bulls...all for cheese?.....there must be a Monty Python reference in here somewhere?
|
|
|
|
|
airehead
Oompa Loofah
|
|
|
Joined: 12 Nov 2002
Posts: 18788
Location: Between here and eternity...
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 05/30/05 - 22:32 Post subject:
I know the USAF forbids servicemembers to run with the bulls. No mention that I've heard of not being able to run with the cheese. 
|
|
|
|
|
andydp
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 8122
Location: Upstate NY near Albany
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 05/31/05 - 06:36 Post subject:
They also have a pancake flipping race.
Now if they just recreated Lady Godiva's ride...
|
|
|
|
|
spongebob
Former FFL Champion
|
|
|
Joined: 15 May 2002
Posts: 3602
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 05/31/05 - 11:29 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | I know the USAF forbids servicemembers to run with the bulls. No mention that I've heard of not being able to run with the cheese. |
Cadets are not allowed to throw cheese at the USAFA. True story.
Research the history and life and times of "Spirit Cheese".
|
|
|
|
|
bburgoyne26
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
Posts: 2959
Location: Ft. Worth, Texas
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 05/31/05 - 11:44 Post subject:
| Runner X wrote: |
Cadets are not allowed to throw cheese at the USAFA. True story.
Research the history and life and times of "Spirit Cheese". |
But are they allowed to cut the cheese?
|
|
|
|
|
gretriever
Hipster Doofus
|
|
|
Joined: 16 Jul 2003
Posts: 19385
Location: A moving target in a firing range.
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 05/31/05 - 11:46 Post subject:
| Runner X wrote: |
Cadets are not allowed to throw cheese at the USAFA. True story.
|
At the U of Wee-SCON-sin, it's considered downright blasphemy.
|
|
|
|
|
Maddies Wench
Flailing Homosapiens
|
|
|
Joined: 12 Jun 2003
Posts: 6103
Location: Seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go.
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 05/31/05 - 12:25 Post subject:
It would take a cheese wedge of solid gold for me to throw my body down a ravine after it.
|
|
|
|
|
andydp
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 8122
Location: Upstate NY near Albany
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 05/31/05 - 17:18 Post subject:
Have you seen the price of Douple Glouster Cheese these days ? Its almost at the cost of gold...
|
|
|
|
