unsolicited calls/mail this might be worth trying!

[Gandralf]

O. Gd idea except when the doors open the cold gets in and I cant see the TV from the front door.

[P2B]

Salesman baiting is a form of entertainment in itself, Gandralf...

[Harley]

oh I do so love getting my own back on salespeople.

Try inviting them in and showing them your collection of kitchen knives and watch the blood drain from their face.

Make them a cup of tea and 'accidentally' put salt in instead of sugar.

Say you're a bit busy so they'll have to talk while you carry on with something - then get them to help. Folding ironing, drying dishes, stacking the dishwasher, help fix a puncture on your bike etc.

Ask them to come back tomorrow then be too busy to talk - rearrange as many times as necessary.

[Gandralf]

Salesman baiting is a form of entertainment in itself, Gandralf...

great now i know. Got anymore wierd and wonderful sports apart from orienteering?

[Carnage Head]

Salesman baiting is a form of entertainment in itself, Gandralf...

great now i know. Got anymore wierd and wonderful sports apart from orienteering?

How about:

Mountain bike bog snorkelling
http://llanwrtyd-wells.powys.org.uk/eventbogbike.htm
(top five - results never published)

Bog snorkelling triathlon-ing
http://llanwrtyd-wells.powys.org.uk/bogtriathlon.htm
(almost last - puncture)

Toe wrestling
http://www.benjerry.co.uk/toewrestling/
(out after first round!)

Straw bale racing
http://www.strawrace.co.uk
(7th pair)

Horseless Horse Trial Racing
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/union/sports/cro ... rticle.htm
(winning team!)

Tried 'em all in 2005. Can anyone recommend any others?

[Carnage Head]

Oh - I almost forgot:

Chunder mile racing
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/union/sports/cro ... photos.htm
(Top half of the field, can't remember exactly where)

[rocky]

surely marsh football is in with a shout?

[Adventure Racer]

http://www.extremeironing.com/

[Carnage Head]

http://www.extremeironing.com/

One of these guys did the Tough Guy last year. (Also worth a crack, if you can get near the start line.)

What's marsh football, anyway? Or am I missing a grotesque innuendo?

[rocky]

What's marsh football, anyway? Or am I missing a grotesque innuendo?

football. in a marsh. simple as that. often descends into primitave mud slinging contest, and i've even seen marsh rugby getting played.

theres a world championships held in finland each year which is open to anyone i think.

[Carnage Head]

I reckon the referee would have little chance of working out if anything played in a marsh was football or rugby! Sounds like fun.

It also sounds like a kind of WWI 'Christmas Day truce' football match, but without the threat of being blown up by the opposing team the following day.

[Guest]

I watched a game of "mud football" played on mudflats near Derby, Western Australia (NW corner) in about July / August 1995 - Australian Rules, naturally, although there didn't appear to be any rules. I think it was a fund raising event for the local volunteer fire service, who had to use hose pipes to clean players after the game.