So I'm Watching The Stone Skipping Championship On ESPN Right Now

[sfstaxprep]

After that, it's the Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. The best one follows that, Juggling while Dodging Balls being thrown at you by others.

I really think ESPN is trolling us at this point.

[Roland99]

1. The Ocho!!

[riversedge]

2. well. if there was a watermelon spitting content I just might tune in.

[tblue37]

3. Um, you're not supposed to spit the watermelon, just the seeds, though I suppose you

could improvise with seedless watermelons.

[sop]

4. Is there any sponsorship and endorsement money in stone skipping?

"My uncle skips rocks"...Geez, I'm bored out of my f***ing mind!

[The Magistrate]

5. Here Are The Champions, Sir

https://pickle.nine.com.au/2016/05/04/16/04/skipping-rock-explodes


The original clip is not up still, but it lives on here....

[Yonnie3]

6. I recall when they added the second ESPN channel

There was often not enough mainstream sports available to air. Weekday afternoons you could see exciting events such as cow pie tossing and tiddlywinks.

[Totally Tunsie]

7. That's great! It gives me hope that they'll cover some of the many

river rubber duckie races this year! (My son went to school in Bangor, ME, and the TV station would carry the Saco River Race from beginning to end.)

https://www.duckrace.com/game-races.html?mode=list

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. Next Wednesday is the beginning of the Paint Drying Chamionship. It lasts five weeks.

My money's on Benjamin Moore.

[Totally Tunsie]

9. Oh yeah? I hear the little Dutch Boy is bringing his "A game".

Game on!

[customerserviceguy]

10. Never underestimate

Sherwin Williams. Anybody that can continue to use a 1957-era logo depicting what looks like an ecological disaster has to be pretty damned badass. And what's with those drips in the Southern Hemisphere? Have the Australians and New Zealanders been spun off of the globe by the lack of gravity???!!

?

[Totally Tunsie]

11. AH! Here was my DU education for the day: Sherwin Williams

is the daddy of little Dutch Boy, having adopted him in 1980. My invitation to the party must have been lost in the mail, for I had no idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Boy_Paint

Founded in 1907 by the National Lead Company, the Dutch Boy Paints brand is currently a subsidiary of the Consumer Group division of the Sherwin-Williams Company, which acquired it in 1980, two years after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's directive banning the manufacturing of lead housepaint went into effect.

As a kid, my BFF's father had a painting business and he used Dutch Boy paint exclusively. I remember Sharon and I chuckling that her dad looked like the DB when got into his paint overalls and hat. That was a long-lost memory!

[GoneOffShore]

12. So did you watch Andrew Cotter's dogs as well?

The Dog's Breakfast Grand Final

Game of Bones

The Walk of Shame

[Mossfern]

13. Ha! We were watching it too!

I liked it because it was actually calming. I also found out that my husband was a stone skipper when he was a kid and talked to me about technique - who thought?

[sakabatou]

14. "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!"