Bizarre Festivals

[southerngale]

Gotmaar Festival (India, September) - On the day after the September full moon, the 45,000 residents of Pandhura divide themselves into two groups and hurl rocks at each other until sunset when the fighting ends.


Moose-Dropping Festival (Alaska, July) - The town of Talkeetna is host to an annual celebration of moose-droppings. Stalls sell jewelry and assorted knick-knacks made from moose-droppings. The highlight of the celebration is the moose-dropping-throwing competition, where competitors throw gold-painted moose-droppings into a target area.


Cheese-Rolling (U.K., May) - At 6 p.m. on Spring Bank Holiday Monday, local youths line up at the top of the hill alongside a 7 pound circular Double Gloucester cheese. When the cheese is released, the competitors hurtle down the hill in an attempt to catch it before it reaches the bottom.


Grandmother's Festival (Norway, July) - First held at Bodo in 1992, the festival sees grannies riding motorbikes, racehorses, skydiving and scuba-diving. The star of the inaugural event was 79-year-old Elida Anderson who became the world's oldest bungee jumper.


La Tomatina (Spain) - This festival dates back to 1944 when the fair at Bunol was ruined by hooligans hurling tomatoes at the procession. Now each year the town stages a 90-minute mass fight with 190,000 pounds of ripe tomatoes.


Running of the Sheep (U.S., September) - Reedpoint, Montana, stages a gentle alternative to Spain's famous Running of the Bulls. Each September hundreds of sheep charge down Main Street for six blocks. Contests are held for the ugliest sheep and prettiest ewe while shepherds assemble to recite poetry.

[JCT777]

Gotta love a festival that involves throwing rocks at people all day.

[stormraiser]

The Running of the Sheep sounds fun

[streetsoldier]

FOOD FIGHT!!!

[furluvcats]

I'll have to remeber those dates while we're on our travels....NOT! :O)

[Skywatch_NC]

I can just see Steven Q. Urkel at the Cheese-Rolling contest!

Eric

[deb_in_nc]

Moose droppings???!!!! There's an idea for the S2K picnic. We could pick-up early Christmas presents.

Where did you get it and what's it made of?

Well it's like this.....

[blizzard]

Every Year in MN, they hold a Lutefisk eating contest. The winner for the last 6(?) years finished off 6 lbs. of the stuf this year. His record is 8lbs. I know I wouldn't be abled to get 6 grams down.... Blech!!!!

[wx247]

I saw a cheesecake eating contest once. That was gross because it is so rich you can only so much and everyone got sick. :o Not fun.

[blizzard]

I was watching a show on the travel channel that was talking about the lutefisk and they were also talking about a Jalepeno eating contest where the winner ate 100 jalepenos......Talk about needing Preparation H...lol

[breeze]

And, I'm going to the Louisiana CRAWFISH
Festival, where contestants have eaten HOW
much crawfish/mudpuppies? Cajunmama,
someobody, help me out!

[coriolis]

and what's up with the strawman festival?

[streetsoldier]

Ah wuz always parshul ter th' "piss fer distance" contist at the Shrine "barn" evry summer. Parson's missus wun last yeer...

[Bunch]

My favorite was always where we'd all dress in tutus, and scream German phrases into a conch shell strapped to the back of a pony. . .

Oh wait. . .is that just me?

Uh, never mind. . .