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August 29, 2008
55th Annual World Plowing Championship — 'Competitive plowing at its finest'
The winner of the competition (held August 15 and 16 of this year in Grafenegg, Austria) by a one point margin (350 to 349) was Samuel Gill, a 41-year-old mechanic from Northern Ireland whose twin brother won last year.
Details aplenty in John W. Miller's front page article in today's Wall Street Journal.
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I saw the title before the video preview loaded, and was hoping it would be snowplowing....I don't know why that struck me as potentially more interesting than sod-plowing, but I have to admit I felt a little let down by that.
Being suspicious that there's an addendum to Rule 34 [http://xkcd.com/305/] stating that there's a competitive version of everything, I did a quick search, and sure enough:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/snow-plow-rodeo-in-st-cloud/3723440790
Posted by: johnjohn | Aug 30, 2008 2:34:21 AM
