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Two Man Filing Cabinet Bobsleighing is just one of a number of new events to be embraced at the next winter Olympic games.
The rules are simple. You take one standard 4 drawer filing cabinet as a starting point. You can add to it, but only using other basic items available in any office: ie umbrella
stands could become the runners; an angle-poise lamp could be used as a braking mechanism; dismantled swivel chairs would provide all the necessary padding.
It's a simple event, with few rules. To make it slightly easier, there would be no penalty for any competitors who's filing cabinet tumbled over, or broke apart and went down the track sideways or in some other ungainly manner.
Note - event also suitable for women competitors, but in addition they have to answer a phone call, take a memo, or paint their nails before crossing the finishing line :-)
Idiotarod
http://www.cartsofb...lyn.com/basics.html
shopping carts instead of sleds, humans instead of dogs [ryokan, Mar 03 2010]
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Tenative [+], but your comment about women competing seems superfluous. If women have to take a memo on the way down, so should men. |
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Do the teams arrive with pre-built contraptions, or does the race include entering a standard office, using its contents to build said contraption, as well as riding it? [+]
Gratuitous sexism [-] |
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The men have to crumple up the memo and throw it into a garbage can along the way. |
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oh yeah+ I work in a medical office and I also have crutches and other strange devices to attach to my filing cabinet!! (I don't paint my nails, but I could clip them whilst taking a memo, answering the phone and making an appt.) |
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I'm sure the sexism is only to address that which already exists in the olympics, as well as in offices for that matter. |
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Scrapheap Challenge meets Rollerball meets Death Race 2000 meets The Office ... |
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A *standard* filing cabinet, you say? Such as ordinary office
furniture suppliers suply to ordinary offices? Think of the
sponsorship opportunities! |
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heheh, thinking of updated office supply catalogues featuring high-end filing cabinets that look a bit... unusual. |
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I really like the title and concept of people holding on to a filing cabinet for their dear life - seems like like something you'd find on a European Terry Pratchett cover, doesn't it? - but was disappointed by the text. Adding more items just seems to water it down, and the sexism :-) at the end doesn't work for me, even as a meta-joke. Sorry. |
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[jutta] in [x]'s defense, the outdated concepts you object to match the usage of physical filing cabinets: also considered outdated. |
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(though I personally took "Two Man" to be the inclusive form and wandered off attention-wise before the last paragraph since I don't remember reading it the first time.) |
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sp. "whose"; very last comma is redundant. |
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Well, that depends on whether you're using Chicago Manual of Style rules or Associated Press rules. |
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Under the circumstances go with the Chicago Manual, ahem, Guide, ahem, Rules. Yeah, Chicago Rules. |
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When I first read the idea, I thought it was a nice way to bring up issues of inequality in industry and athletics. That would have added another nice layer to the writing if it wasn't just tacked on at the end. I think you realized this, but the result was inelegant. |
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As social commentary combining workplace and athletics based around the idea of filing cabinet bobsleds it probably would have been better to take aim at unfairness without the stereotyping such as the men's races start and end at higher positions than the women's races, and the women's races arn't over until they're at the bottom and have done all the filing. |
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Believe it or not, I thought long and hard (exaggeration) about the 'extras' for the female competitors, but in balance decided to include it. "Male" and "female" events that require the female competitors to "not quite do as much" seem a most debatable issue to me re equality, as is the sterotypical office "girl" - (put it down to too many episodes of Madmen of late) |
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Who's seems like the possessive case until you consider that "who's" is also the abbreviated version of "who is". "Whose" always seems to refer to a personal interrogative eg Whose face is that? Contrast this with: "those who's faces are unknown" That's how I call it anyway. |
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How about a tea-trolley steeplechase for the next Olympics? |
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Competitors would have to push around a fully laden tea-
trolley, negotiate the water troughs (the hurdles would be
removed and replaced with stepped humps), then deliver
cups of tea and penguin or club biscuits (probably unknown
in the colonies) to the judges. |
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// making a pot of tea and pouring it out into a couple of cups, // |
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Unless the female concerned is a Civil Service employee, in which case she would be required to dispense a liquid which is almost (but not quite) entirely unlike tea ... |
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//How about a tea-trolley steeplechase //
You would have thought that that would have been baked already, wouldn't you? Apparently it hasn't. |
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Scooter Jousting - using Lambrettas or Vespas - and Mobility Scooter Jousting, does in fact exist, however. |
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Shades of the Idiotarod... I like it. |
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Something like a conference table or cubicle walls might be suited better for this. Every time I try to visualize this, the file cabinet corners dig into the ice, there's a high speed tussle of flesh and sheet metal, and it ends with cloud of paper folders in the air. |
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//cabinet corners// there's always 0.5" - 2" clearance on the inside so either rounded manufacturing or a good bash with a sledgehammer (sledge...hammer... get it?) should take care of that. |
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// sledgehammer //
<Cymbal sting>
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<Sound of wind>
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<Tumbleweed blows past>
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<Slow handclaps> |
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I had a go in a bobsleigh the other day. It was terrifying! [+] |
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Was it the upside-down one that the British team seem to have bought on Ebay? |
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No, it was a bona fide four-man bob with nary a trace of inversion or filing. The most amazing thing about the ride was the rate at which the thing went from upright to almost 90 degrees - it happened almost instantaneously and was accompanied by what felt like a giant hand mashing down on the head. |
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