Weirdest plausible sports
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How about actual water polo - ie trying to hit balls with sticks on horse back, in deep water?
Tallest Skil
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“Welcome, all our members, to the 42nd Triannual Phallimpiad!”
“Exactly what it sounds like” registered to me as “the ASPCA dedicates an entire week to the protest of only the punting plays”.
Fans of Mad Magazine might remember 43-Man Squamish. Ties were broken by the opposing sides shouting dirty limericks at one another until one of them broke up laughing.
The Eton Wall Game is weird as hell. It seems to be a mixture between rugby, American football and trench warfare. The field is 5m wide, 110m long, there is one game a year that anyone cares about (on St Andrew's Day), and people very rarely score.
And then most of the kids involved go on to be MPs, or CEOs, or Lords.
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And then most of the kids involved go on to be MPs, or CEOs, or Lords.
What about Moopsball - the game that involves over 300 players, takes three days to play, and has a team position that involves dressing up as a wizard and putting curses on the opposing team?
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Here's a very implausible one: Take a long club, and try to hit a ball that's only a couple of inches in diameter, while missing a ball that's 8000 miles in diameter, and make that small ball go in a particular hole--then picking it out of the hole and repeating ad nauseum. The clothes worn should be incredibly garish to add to the ridiculous aspect.
If you want to make it more absurd, allow the participants to ride electric or gasoline powered vehicles so they don't have to exert themselves walking.
Oh--never mind--we already have a sport like that--they called it "golf" because so many 4 letter words were already taken.
Here's a very implausible one: Take a long club, and try to hit a ball that's only a couple of inches in diameter, while missing a ball that's 8000 miles in diameter, and make that small ball go in a particular hole--then picking it out of the hole and repeating ad nauseum. The clothes worn should be incredibly garish to add to the ridiculous aspect.
If you want to make it more absurd, allow the participants to ride electric or gasoline powered vehicles so they don't have to exert themselves walking.
Oh--never mind--we already have a sport like that--they called it "golf" because so many 4 letter words were already taken.
SunDeep
Banned
I should have known someone would beat me to it.
Now, now- we're talking about the weirdest plausible sport, not the most boring...
Stolengood
Banned
I first learned about cricket via Life, the Universe, and Everything, which had cricket-playing robots stealing the Ashes from Lord's. I was so unfamiliar with the terminology, I thought Douglas Adams had made up it out of whole cloth.