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July 13, 2005
Extreme Ironing

What do you get when you cross the high-octane, adrenaline fuelled, pulse racing, knee shaking action of extreme sports, with the murky fluff in the seedy bellybutton of household chores? What do you get when scream and steam collide? What happens when you're living on the edge of life's less than perfectly angled crease?

The answer, my salivating friends, is Extreme Ironing.

Their mission is simple. To tame Mother Nature, conquer un-explored territories, battle the earth's harshest elements, and to do it all with nothing more than a collapsible ironing board, hand-held steam iron and an unshakable passion to stamp-out wrinkles.

Extreme Ironers from across the globe have been churning out silky-smooth shirts in deserts, on mountain tops and even at the North Pole.

This bunch of highly-trained athletes will stop at nothing in their quest for pressing perfection, and momentum is quickly growing to grant Extreme Ironing Olympic sport status.

If Extreme Ironing catches on in America, expect it to spawn a number of off-shoot activities such as Monster Vacuum Cleaner Off Road Racing, The 24 Hour Toilet Bleaching Time Trial, and Swiffer Wars. This is the stuff that pay-per-view was invented for.

Main image from here.

posted by Dr. Wei, PhD 09:16 E-MAIL THIS POST