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Thread: PSA - Sign up for The Spatula Challenge!

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    PSA - Sign up for The Spatula Challenge!

    There are entirely too many of you with one Spatula apiece, and all of you want somebody else to give up their single so not a lot of progress is being made. Since one Spatula is useless by itself you're not really losing anything by joining the challenge even if you lose, and if you win you've got a pair again!

    THE TERMS:

    There must be an even number of people signed up.

    Once you sign up you can't back out just because you don't like the challenge. If you do, we will impugn your sexual orientation and harangue you mercilessly for weeks to come. We will certainly fart in your general direction and perhaps we'll even give you a proper pranging, once we figure out exactly what that entails.

    You must agree to give up your single Spatula should you lose, including the cost of shipping it to the winner.

    You may keep your binding.

    THE CHALLENGE:

    To be determined. Perhaps I'll post my first poll ever. It will as fair as we can make it.

    So who's in?

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    DOOOOOOOO ITTTTTTT!

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    A good idea ice, I like it. But there should be some kind of compensation for the person that loses the spat, money prolly, so they can fill the spot in their quiver with some pontoons maybe.

    Not sure how that would be determined but it would likely have to be a set price to start with and then some considerations taken for the condition of the ski.
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    I'm agreeable to more terms, it just can't get too complicated.

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    [Popping popcorn] This has "Hall of Fame" written all over it.
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    How about a one ski spat run from the top of the K-12?
    I think that the human mind is unique among all other forms of life in that it can spontaneously create unique thoughts and provide unique behaviors. Instead of rewarding that uniqueness we, for some reason probably because of cultural and social necessity, we chastise unique behavior and reward conformity.

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    $150 buy in? Split between the non-splat winners?

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    1-ski Chinese downhill (down something rediculous being a given)?

    But seriously, since these people are all over the continent (world), I'd propose some kind of broken spatula photo contest... Show everyone how much you love your Spats by putting up a picture of what you've done with the busted one.

    Those who have tossed the other half obviously don't love them enough.
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    how bout everyone sends me splats and i divy them up
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    I only opened this thread because I knew AKPM would post something along the lines of "give them to me." As usual, he didn't disappoint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman
    ... we will impugn your sexual orientation and harangue you mercilessly for weeks to come. We will certainly fart in your general direction and perhaps we'll even give you a proper pranging, once we figure out exactly what that entails.
    So how would this differ from just a normal day on the TGR boards?

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    I still think tandem spats is the only way to fix this debacle...

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    tandem, DO IT!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by crashnburn'd
    I still think tandem spats is the only way to fix this debacle...
    I've heard, and I'll leave it up to the long-term LCC mags to confirm or deny this, that about 4-5 years ago there was a kid at Alta who blew out his knee and rather than end his season he took to wearing a snowboard boot on his bad leg and skiing tandem waterski style. Supposedly he hit the diving board under supreme and stuck it.

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    Here's an idea. How about two guys that each need one spat get together and buy a new pair of Spatulas and split the cost. Then each guy gets one spatula to replace their one borken spatula with out having to give up anything other than half the cost of a new pair of spatulas.

    Fucking revolutionary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by slim
    Here's an idea. How about two guys that each need one spat get together and buy a new pair of Spatulas and split the cost. Then each guy gets one spatula to replace their one borken spatula with out having to give up anything other than half the cost of a new pair of spatulas.

    BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! That'll never work... They don't even make Spatulas anymore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by slim
    Here's an idea. How about two guys that each need one spat get together and buy a new pair of Spatulas and split the cost. Then each guy gets one spatula to replace their one borken spatula with out having to give up anything other than half the cost of a new pair of spatulas.

    Fucking revolutionary.
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    If somebody's willing to ship one to the UK, I'll stump 50%. Got some for $449 on ebay.

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    Isn't Barstow a city?

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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman
    Isn't Barstow a city?
    Sort of.

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    More of a Burgh.

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    I think I'll save my single for when I break or lose one from my new pair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by funkendrenchman
    I think I'll save my single for when I break or lose one from my new pair.
    I think that's a good idea. I'm saving the two singles in my closet for when I break or lose my current pair.

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    This contest isn't turning out quite as well as I had hoped.

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    i currently have 2.5 good spatulas, Just bought a good one to replace my skiable yet broken original.
    I think some sort of slalom course set up where you have to hit the 'bouys' will being towed through over a foot of fresh behind a truck or snowmobile. We'll start with a 75 foot ski handle and work our way down just like a traditional slalom comp in water. Oh yeah, the snowmobile will be going 36.5mph
    Go Sharks.

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