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planking Before too many end up as veggies or plant food, there needs to be a serious campaign to stop this. Maybe some short telly ads saying "plankers are wankers"?
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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I'd never heard of this so I looked it up on youtube. The practice of planking seems innocent enough, but of course there are those that will take it to extremes as you so rightly pointed out, Ed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrIIIWrF5UE&feature=pyv&ad=9627158513&kw=planking
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Nature's natural selection process? Weeding out the stupid, let's hope they don't take an innocent person with them. I've seen some dumb stuff but this is one of the dumbest. These kids obviously have too much time on their hands. Get a job or volunteer to do something productive with their time. 
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
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that has got to be one of the dumbest things i ever seen. i am sure it is a fad that wont last long. but of course they said that about rock and roll also 
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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Fe Butt
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(...with apologies to Jan and Dean...)
Jump on my car and go highway plankin' with me
Don't be afraid to try the dumbest sport around
(bust your head, bust your head open now)
It's catchin' on in every city and town
You can do the tricks the surfers do
Though you, may end up in a coffin too
(why don't you)
Jump on my car and go highway plankin' with me
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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(...with apologies to Jan and Dean...)
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(...with apologies to Jan and Dean...)
You should apologise to the rest of us as well!! 
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(...with apologies to Jan and Dean...)
You should apologise to the rest of us as well!!
No Shaun, I don't think I will!!!
(...but, I MIGHT apologize!!!!)  
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Read about a 20 something planking on a hotel balcony earlier this week. I think he was on the 3rd floor - when he fell. He's dead now.
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Read about a 20 something planking on a hotel balcony earlier this week. I think he was on the 3rd floor - when he fell. He's dead now.
Well Steve, I guess that's kinda like what Kathy was sayin' above, huh?!
Yep, maybe this guy here might've been right after all with that theory o' his when he wrote...
..."When the HMS Beagle pulled into the Galápagos Islands, I was able to disembark and observe the local flora and fauna. Amongst the many species of fauna I found were the carcasses of one particular species of Iguana lizards located at the base of a cliff. It seems this particular species of Iguanas had been prone to disregard the forces of gravity, and thus try as I might, I could not find any living examples of this species of Iguana left roaming these islands. And thus, I could only conclude that due to their apparent lack of being able to comprehend these forces, this particular species of Iguana were now extinct."
(...okay, naaah I admit it...Chuck up there didn't really write that...I made that all up...but, he COULD HAVE maybe, huh?!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Well Steve, I guess that's kinda like what Kathy was sayin' above, huh?!
Yep, maybe this guy here might've been right after all with that theory o' his when he wrote...
..."When the HMS Beagle pulled into the Galápagos Islands, I was able to disembark and observe the local flora and fauna. Amongst the many species of fauna I found were the carcasses of one particular species of Iguana lizards located at the base of a cliff. It seems this particular species of Iguanas had been prone to disregard the forces of gravity, and thus try as I might, I could not find any living examples of this species of Iguana left roaming these islands. And thus, I could only conclude that due to their apparent lack of being able to comprehend these forces, this particular species of Iguana were now extinct."
(...okay, naaah I admit it...Chuck up there didn't really write that...I made that all up...but, he COULD HAVE maybe, huh?!)
That's pretty good though. 
http://www.mauritiushot.com/australian-dies-after-planking-from-seventh-floor-balcony/
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The Original Plankster 
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Forget Planking, now we have Teapotting.   okay I borrowed these from another site but funny as.
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The Original Plankster
Good one, Steve!!!
I never thought of Rollie Free as bein' a "Plankster", but I guess anybody who'd purposely wear just his swimming trunks and just so he could pass 150mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats on his Vincent, might be as foolhardy as some of these kids today, huh?!
(...I know ya wouldn't catch me doin' that...and besides, I'll bet the officials at Bonneville today wouldn't allow anybody to do that anymore anyway!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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The solution is not less planking, but MORE. Problem takes care of itself.
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I'm still of the opinion some idiot had it all wrong, was over hearing a convow and mistook a word, he or she thought they heard Plank when the real word was Wank, well sounds like thats what their actually doing anyway, playing with it 
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I think the plankers are just wankers.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Check Pants
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awwwwwwwww, cmoooon You folks have no sense of adventure, weren't you ever a yute On midwinter, icy sidestreets as an impressionable college yute, we'd return the 10 blocks from the local establishments to the dorms by sidling up behind cars at stop signs, duck down, latch onto the rear bumper and "skeetch" our way back "I was older then I'm much............" jh
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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Fer sure John. Planking... some take it to the extreme, most do it for the 'shock' value. Like streakin' back in my day. Heck I remember my older brother carrying on back in the late '50s with other guys doing 'extreme' stuff, like barreling down the road side by side, taking up both lanes at 100+ mph and climbing through the windows from one car to the other. It ain't just today's yute doing crazy stuff!!
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Should be Riding
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The solution is not less planking, but MORE. Problem takes care of itself.
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It ain't just today's yute doing crazy stuff!!
at some point, every generation, since Hector was a pup, realizes they were not the first to do Phil-in-the-Blank "something". Nearing 40, I'm starting to understand things like this
jh
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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I blame the phone company. Kids were smarter when they had phone booths to cram themselves into.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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Fer sure John. Planking... some take it to the extreme, most do it for the 'shock' value. Like streakin' back in my day. Heck I remember my older brother carrying on back in the late '50s with other guys doing 'extreme' stuff, like barreling down the road side by side, taking up both lanes at 100+ mph and climbing through the windows from one car to the other. It ain't just today's yute doing crazy stuff!!
I have to side with Keith here guys. Come on you guys never took stupid risks when you were "yutes"?
What do you expect them to do? We cram them into helmets and elbow pads to ride a plastic tricycle around in the grassy back yard when they are tikes, and we have a rail around every drop more than 3 feet.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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