Puppies and Flowers

Challenge #1: Could David Howell, Paul McGinley, Marcel Siem or Rhys Davies skim a golf ball 200 yards across a lake and hit a 9 inch gong?

Here’s some footage from 2007:

Here’s the link to the Mavericks Live Cam.

Thanks to my sister Deirdre.

This is really amazing, link to Life Magazine at Google Books.

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More surfer dogs here.

Crazy.

image by TeeRish

From The Guardian:

Referee books Chorlton Villa player for distracting rival with 'ungentlemanly conduct' at key moment in match…

The drive to bring good manners back to football has reached new heights after a referee issued a yellow card to a player for "breaking wind" as a penalty was being taken.

The official deemed the act "ungentlemanly conduct" and booked the player responsible. However Chorlton Villa, who conceded a goal on the second take, went on to win the match 6-4 against local rivals International Manchester FC at Turn Moss in Stretford, Manchester, last Sunday.

The article goes on to say:

"This has come at a bad time in the season as we don't have sponsor and we are looking for a new sponsor for next season."

Heinz Beans perhaps? I'll stop there—oh wait pull my finger.

Link 

This doesn't appear to be a sponsored viral, but who knows, fun to watch just the same.

Link to clip.

See more entries at Osocio 

Ananova reports:

A new water sport in which contestants row a boat made of a single bamboo cane has been invented in China.

Villagers from Chishui, near Zuiyi city, came up with the idea, reports News Express.

They make the boats out of locally grown bamboo and hold races on the Pinzhou River.

"Participants can sit or stand on the piece of bamboo, and with a thin bamboo oar, they race and compete at other tasks," explained one villager.

Villagers say the races have become a popular local attraction and hope the sport will spread across the region.

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Link to YouTube 

The company I work for did this but in February 2007, TBWA\Chiat\Day San Francisco became Cutwater. 

found photo: lafrancevi

From article:

KABUL, Afghanistan —  The U.S. military regrets any offense it may have caused by handing out a soccer ball emblazoned with the name of Allah on it as part of a public relations exercise in Afghanistan, a spokesman said.

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