Gurning Champion
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| Deadspin found this 6/14/2008 on scuffedballs.blogspot.com [flag] |
From Wikipedia:
"Gurning contests are a rural English tradition and were once common at travelling sideshows, fairs and freak shows. They are still held regularly in some villages, and the contestants traditionally frame their faces through a horse collar - known as 'gurnin' through a braffin'. The World Gurning Championship is held annually in Egremont, Cumbria as one part of the Egremont Crab
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Gurn Save The Queen [Nightmare Fuel]
Published 6/14/2008 by Matt Sussman at Deadspin
... Here in America, you win a major sports championship, and you meet the president. Across the pond, when you stick your head through a horse collar and make a face better than anyone else, you meet the Queen. That line was actually in the original Magna Carta. ...