Comments on: 7 Unsung Events That Deserve Your Attention

By: Blue

Blue — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:26:01 +0000

The Red Bull Flugtag is a ripoff of the Bognor Birdman Competition and should be rightly observed as such

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bognor_Regis#Birdman_of_Bognor

Red Bull itself is a pick me up drink from Thailand called Krating Daeng (Thai for Red Bull) which Dietrich Mateschitz licensed from the Krating Daeng company here in Thailand and its owner Chaleo Yoovidhya and Mateschitz own 49% each of Red Bull GmbH with the other 2% of the company owned by Chalerm Yoovidhya, Chaleo’s son

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:19:39 +0000

What about professional arm-wrestling?

By: Bailey

Bailey — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:13:12 +0000

Whoever was filming the Flugtag video is my kinda guy (see 1:33 – 1:36)!

By: gibson8or

gibson8or — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:31:06 +0000

I actually attended that Flugtag. A good friend of mine was on a team that built a giant “Sparky the Sundevil” (it flew like a rock). In the video, when the announcer mentions the University of Arizona, you can hear all the Arizona State students booing.
There was a major lawsuit afterward because the organizers gave alcohol to under-age competitors, one of whom hit and killed an off-duty police officer while driving home.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:59:00 +0000

I first read “pipe laying”…and then spent the rest of the paragraph confused about what kind of crazy plumbing expos the Scotts were into, lol.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:55:29 +0000

Just for future reference, the “plaid” is called a tartan and it refers to the specific clans. Please make sure you do not make this mistake in the future, as you can upset may of your loyal scottish flossers

catpcha: loving reserve

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:00:05 +0000

I’m always pleased to see the town of my alma mater mentioned in cool places like a _floss list. Go Red Raiders!

By: spencer

spencer — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:26:29 +0000

its so kewl all these videos i was actually at the San Francisco yoyo fest. And it was actually a coincidence that my friend emailed me this out of the blue… how fun… :]

By: Pam

Pam — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:12:08 +0000

Flugtat was held last month here in Tampa. Wow! Lots of fun to watch, I bet even more fun to participate it. The city expected about 40,000 to come out to watch. Over 100,000 did. Hardly unsung, maybe un-mainstream, at least for now.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:51:09 +0000

I’d love to go to any or all of these. But this weekend, it’s all about the Vancouver Sausage Fest. (Vancouver, not B.C., Washington, not D.C.)