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09:03 January 22nd, 2009

Get your wetsuit, Trixie, it’s ironing day!

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough, , ,

Blog Guy, I have a couple of minutes to spare. Give me the stupidest thing you’ve seen in the last 24 hours. And I’m warning you, it had better be VERY stupid.

No problem. How about 86 people ironing at the same time?

That’s not stupid enough.

How about if they’re all ironing underwater.

Now you’re talking!

Here’s a video report about a bunch of scuba divers going for the world’s record for underwater ironing.

Wow! Could it possibly get any stupider than that?

Only if they plugged in the irons.

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10 comments so far

Correction - the title should read: Get your drysuit, Trixie, it’s ironing day!

- Posted by James

Ya know, I don’t come here for humor consisting of watered down irony…

- Posted by Bandage

Bandage, you must not be a very deep thinker

- Posted by OHIOCPA

[...] From the it doesn’t get any stupider than this department: 86 people in the UK have broken the World Record in underwater ironing.  [...]

- Posted by Underwater Ironing (???) World Record | Zoli’s Blog

Well, its the ody enough section and the title reads “News, but not the serious kind”…so that kind of stuff are welcome….the diver sort are odd people…They must be saying…”Lets see…what else can we do underwater…”

- Posted by allround geek

[...] more: Oddly Enough Blog Archive Get your wetsuit, Trixie, it’s ironing day! | Blogs | __________________ David [...]

- Posted by Extreme Ironing - was it covered in the news? - Page 47 - YD Scuba Diving Forums

Its gets better, They raised over £10 for the Charity RNLI who save lives of those in danger at Sea.

- Posted by Dave Crampton

Any stupider than underwater? … how about ironing while skydiving? Or up in the mountain, or in the middle of Times Square? Check this out:
http://www.extremeironing.com/

- Posted by Gyz

A small correction/clarification to Dave Crampton’s post, we’ve now raised over £10,000 for the RNLI’s Train On Save Many Campaign. Seriously good fun! What next? I’m sure we’ll think of something….

- Posted by Stuart Keasley

Exactly - the event was more about raising money for the RNLI charity (http://www.rnli.org.uk/) than the World Record. The extreme ironing seemed like a great vehicle to raise the most money for the cause. I was part of it and it felt great to raise so much money for charity.

- Posted by Wilbo

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