Mere weeks ago.
I was visiting the Nintendo Roadshow at the Northants Balloon festival with some mates, and as a result of some daring of each other we decided to compete on the Mario Surf Run game. Basically this was a long inflatable alley with an elastic rope at the end. You were tied to the elastic rope, given a banana, and left to place the banana as far down the alley as you could.

As you can imagine, much of the hilarity came from the twanging of the rope as you tried not to get twanged to the end of the alley as you attempted to collect another banana.

At the end of one of my first trips I decided to jump in the air. I was shocked to discover that not only were you pulled backwards, you were also flipped over. I managed to do a full 180 degree flip in one movement, bounced around on my head as one would with a pogo stick, and then smacked into the back wall.

It didn't hurt at the time, but for the following week I couldn't turn my head more than about thirty degrees in any direction.
( Noit happy baby orangutan, Thu 2 Sep 2004, 13:11, Reply)