6/16/2005: Office Chair World Championship

Undertoad · 06-16-2005, 04:38 PM

Another xoB/WaPo image. Here was have a guy racing in the 200-meter course in the first Office Chair World Championships. No word on who won or what the winning times were.

Troubleshooter · 06-16-2005, 04:57 PM

What about a body count?

lawman · 06-16-2005, 05:12 PM

I can forsee those casters breaking off on landing, causing the chair to pivot forward, and grinding his fingers down to little stumps.

Where's that picture??

beavis · 06-16-2005, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by lawman

I can forsee those casters breaking off on landing, causing the chair to pivot forward, and grinding his fingers down to little stumps.

Where's that picture??

then he has to pick up his teeth with said bloody little stumps.

06-16-2005, 06:32 PM

Oh on, these are specialy constructed highspeed racing chair high tech in everyway. Their casters and wheels are constructed from some to the most high-tech high-impact plastic around, able to withstand speed in excess to 5 MPH!!! And they are much more safer than the typical pressed plastic cafeteria chair you find in most modern office buildings. Each chair is insured it's safety requirements by being examined by inpector No. 39 (or inspector No. 42 depending on if inspector No. 39 has a doctors appointment that day). And finally, each chairs powered by an alcohol buring engine (acutally 24 ounces of alchohol - riders choice of brand and type).

capnhowdy · 06-16-2005, 06:44 PM

I thought I donated that chair to Goodwill..........
Hope the "Jackass" guys don't see this.
If they haven't already.

xant · 06-16-2005, 07:01 PM

WTH-- the background is motion blurred and the guy on the chair is in focus. Another chair was flying down the street, right next to him, this one holding a guy with a camera. . .

hampor · 06-16-2005, 07:08 PM

The cameraman may just be pivoting as the rider (driver?) goes by.

BigV · 06-16-2005, 07:15 PM

Technically, those chairs swivel, not pivot.

capnhowdy · 06-16-2005, 08:12 PM

.....at any rate it takes a lot of skill to get a shot like that, the subject almost totally in focus. I wonder what the yellow blur behind him is.
hehehe........
Dude looks like he's about to have an organism......

BigV · 06-16-2005, 08:31 PM

hay bale

capnhowdy · 06-16-2005, 08:46 PM

I'll buy that. Odd placement, tho.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-16-2005, 08:49 PM

Technically it's straw, not hay.

BigV · 06-16-2005, 08:52 PM

Noted. I will return to my chair in the corner now, sir.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-16-2005, 09:01 PM

Aw there there now. Don't take it so hard. Hey, you were right about the swivel.

06-16-2005, 04:38 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	6/16/2005: Office Chair World Championship Another xoB/WaPo image. Here was have a guy racing in the 200-meter course in the first Office Chair World Championships. No word on who won or what the winning times were.

06-16-2005, 04:57 PM	#2
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	What about a body count? __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

06-16-2005, 06:44 PM	#6
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	I thought I donated that chair to Goodwill.......... Hope the "Jackass" guys don't see this. If they haven't already. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

06-16-2005, 07:08 PM	#8
hampor Colloquialist Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: SiliValley Posts: 75	focus The cameraman may just be pivoting as the rider (driver?) goes by.

06-16-2005, 07:15 PM	#9
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Technically, those chairs swivel, not pivot. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

06-16-2005, 05:12 PM	#3
lawman unerringly questioning Join Date: May 2002 Location: Whitehorse, Yukon Posts: 100	I can forsee those casters breaking off on landing, causing the chair to pivot forward, and grinding his fingers down to little stumps. Where's that picture??

06-16-2005, 06:32 PM	#5
Packey Guest Posts: n/a	Oh on, these are specialy constructed highspeed racing chair high tech in everyway. Their casters and wheels are constructed from some to the most high-tech high-impact plastic around, able to withstand speed in excess to 5 MPH!!! And they are much more safer than the typical pressed plastic cafeteria chair you find in most modern office buildings. Each chair is insured it's safety requirements by being examined by inpector No. 39 (or inspector No. 42 depending on if inspector No. 39 has a doctors appointment that day). And finally, each chairs powered by an alcohol buring engine (acutally 24 ounces of alchohol - riders choice of brand and type).

06-16-2005, 07:01 PM	#7
xant Belt Conveyor Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 65	WTH-- the background is motion blurred and the guy on the chair is in focus. Another chair was flying down the street, right next to him, this one holding a guy with a camera. . .

06-16-2005, 08:12 PM	#10
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	.....at any rate it takes a lot of skill to get a shot like that, the subject almost totally in focus. I wonder what the yellow blur behind him is. hehehe........ Dude looks like he's about to have an organism...... __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

06-16-2005, 08:31 PM	#11
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	hay bale __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

06-16-2005, 08:46 PM	#12
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	I'll buy that. Odd placement, tho. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

06-16-2005, 08:49 PM	#13
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Technically it's straw, not hay. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-16-2005, 08:52 PM	#14
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Noted. I will return to my chair in the corner now, sir. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

06-16-2005, 09:01 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Aw there there now. Don't take it so hard. Hey, you were right about the swivel. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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