Annals Of Inanity–Hold The Starch: I can’t really explain it (and I don’t really care to), but the sport of extreme ironing just keeps getting more popular with every shirt pressed in an odd place. Five-time British Olympic medalist Steve Redgrave has even gone so far as to suggest that extreme ironing to be made an Olympic sport. Meanwhile, a German extreme ironist (sounds like a radical philosophical sect) named Alois Laumer has taken the sport to new heights, doing a bang-up job on a shirt from the seat of his microlight. Laumer’s only comment was that “The difficulty of ironing in an open aircraft is that you need both hands to fly properly.” Hey! That’s why it’s called EXTREME, baby! Here’s his pic:

Not to be outdone, a group of Australian ironistas have gone in the opposite direction, and set a new extreme underwater ironing record, somehow convincing 43 scuba divers to waste, I mean spend, an afternoon ironing in the murky waters of Port Phillip Bay. Don’t get overexcited, but you can see their video here. Hooked yet? Then it’s time to start buying your friends and family the gift they never expected: the 2005 Extreme Ironing Calendar. What a world. What a sport…



Underwater Ironing Record: “Let’s make this really, really extreme…and start plugging the irons in!”

(Photo: Paul Selwood via DiveOz)