And The Winner Is… (Week 1)
Posted in Competition Stuff, Funny Stuff, IWOOT Stuff, Office Stuff by Danny Woot
It’s all over – our ‘Things We Didn’t Know’ competition is closed after a frantic week of ridiculous facts being posted to our Facebook wall. We now know much, much more than we did a week ago, but we’re unsure about the origin of that “it’s still legal to shoot a Welshman in York with a crossbow” one – I’m sure someone clarified it somewhere. We’re also confident that the “it’s impossible to lick your elbow” one is untrue – someone went to the trouble of posting video evidence of auto-elbow-lickage, so we can lay that one to rest. And the number of times we counted someone relaying the “a pig’s orgasm lasts over half a hour” fact makes us consider all of your sanity. Come on people, do we really need to know that?
So without further ado, we’re happy to announce that the winner of the first iPhone in our mammoth giveaway is…
Martin Pound – “Slinky Plus Escalator = Endless Fun.”
Congratulations Martin. We picked Martin because his ‘fact’ was light-hearted, technically true and not the sort of thing any old mug could look up on Google. And we liked the mental image of someone sitting at the bottom of an escalator, giggling maniacally at the silver spiral’s answer to the conundrum of perpetual motion. Brilliant.Â
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There were some other almost-as-brilliant entries (we liked the anagrams of “IWOOT iPhone” particularly), but with a little bit of outside-the-box action, Martin’s bagged himself an iPhone – see if you can do the same with this week’s competition, Desktop Sculptures. All the info you need to enter is here.
As for more Things We Didn’t Know, the fun doesn’t stop with the competition – you can go here to our original list at IWOOT, and you can download our TWDK iPhone app too, which will deliver thousands of similarly bizarre facts so that you’ll never be short of a conversation point. If that wasn’t enough, you can see the cream of Things We Didn’t Know each week on our newsletter, which you can sign up for on the homepage (it’s on the left hand side if you scroll down a little).
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…Just found out I won this weeks IWOOT comp…having recently been made redundant a bit of good news like this has really lifted my spirits, and I’m sure when my iphone turns up I will be lifting some spirits of a different sort ( to celebrate)….thanks M£
dancing rodents m8
that is not a fact!! it’s an opinion!! boo!!
Kris, we stated from the beginning that it was not essential that TWDK are all strictly factual. Have a look at the app and see how many of them are a wee bit embellished, dubious or plain spurious!
Well Done Martin!!
Looks like your luck is changing and you when you needed it.
Congrats!!!
Well done Martin, now you’ll be able to video yourself with the slinky and an escalator and put it on youtube ! Sorry to hear about the job, i too am struggling to find work so a treat like this is always uplifting.
I have to say, that was a work of genius – well done Martin just don’t go trying it in rush hour!
And is ‘pound’ really your surname? Oh wait, I knew someone with that surname once – question withdrawn! Good luck with the job hunt
not exactly original, but well done anyhoos!!!!
http://www.google.com/search?q=Slinky%20Plus%20Escalator%20%3D%20Endless%20Fun&num=30
apparently from something called a fortune file (thanks geeky friend):
“There’s a program for unix called fortune (as in fortune cookie) that prints out a random message from a file, called a fortune file – their winner comes from a fortune file”
Definitely not original, it’s been all over Twitter for bloody ages.
Well done! I clarified the Longbow shooting of a Welshman, as I’m from Hereford. Also said it was physically impossible to lick your elbow but clearly I didn’t think about the physical advantages of the gentleman in the video!!
Bring on the next comp, I’m ready…
I tried this for real once, but couldn’t get the speed right, escalator kept being too fast. After about 10 minutes of messing around with it, I nearly got arrested by the BTP who thought I was trying to sabotage the escalator with a slinky.
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