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Extreme Ironing, New International Sporting Craze

Okay, this has little to do with travel, per se, but we thought you'd enjoy this. Were it early April, we'd assume this story was a joke, but as it's late May and the source is the New York Times, we guess it's for real: extreme ironing. That is, ironing (as in, taking wrinkles out of shirts) in such locales as dangling above gorges, skiing down the French Alsp, suspended above raging rapids, etc. Pictured here, the founders of the sport, Phil Shaw and Matthew Patrick, are ironing while strapped to a World War II duck boat in downtown Boston. Lovers of the "sport" engaged in the first Extreme Ironing World Championship in Germany in 2002.

Notably, the word "irony" does not appear in this story. Make sure to click on the slide show on the NYT for full ridiculous details.

Rick Bruner | May 22, 2004 | News | Permanent link
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