Wacko-Jacko CHAMONE
My local coffee shop has been the source of much entertainment (and since I quit uni, employment) since it opened just over two years ago.

A small amount of background here, around January last year there was a competition between the regulars involving drinks stamps (i.e. you got a stamp every time you bought a drink, buy 9 get the 10th free etc) and the person with the most stamps at the end of the month won a £20 voucher for the shop. Here's the story of the most ridiculous thing I did to get just one stamp...

The normal challenges had all been done, like necking a cap-full of 1 million Scoville chilli sauce, asking the random girl who walked past every day inside for a drink (I got a 'Rejection' stamp for that one...), but this was by far the funniest and most outlandish: The Wacko-Jacko Chamone challenge.

The town in which the coffee shop is located (PeliDeli in Matlock, Derbyshire if you're wondering) centres around a large square with four corners of pavements connected by traffic lights, quite a distance really. The challenge was for somebody to do the moonwalk around the entire square, throwing in crotch-grabbing moves, hands in the air and "tee-hee!"s at entirely random moments, all the while listening to Michael Jackson on an iPod.

I did this one sunny January afternoon, got the stamp, plenty of funny looks and a video a complete stranger took including his classic commentary of "Is that guy on crack?!".

I didn't even win the £20 voucher for fuck's sake!
(CptFantastic stopped doing work on, Mon 11 May 2009, 19:38, 3 replies)

That video. Youtube.
Now!
(Guilt wants to get in your moist confines, Mon 11 May 2009, 21:13, closed)

I've been to Matlock
for a wedding. The hotel wasn't Monty Python but it did have a "feature" whereby flushing the toilet would result in the waste bubbling out of each sink on the floor. On to the floor. And no, this wasn't just our sink, we'd booked a portion of this family run hotel and we all slept in our cars. And paid 60 gbp/night for the privilege.
(roar, Mon 11 May 2009, 22:58, closed)

I'm intrigued...
name of the hotel?

Also, the video is lost in the annals of several different phones, but I'll check my old memory cards.
(CptFantastic stopped doing work on, Mon 11 May 2009, 23:04, closed)