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This week, it's Blue Peter setting a world record for "mattress dominoes" after 100 people created a human domino-effect during live filming.
Thanks to all who entered. The prize of a small amount of kudos to the following:
6. leenewham
There were no winners in the Han Solo in encased in carbonite lookalike competition.
5. Northern_Simon
Queues. After the health and safety squad.
4. Tableturn
Fearing the giant was coming back for another tasty human snack, the Borrowers hid themselves in a tray of custard creams.
3. FrankGrimesJnr
After just one day on air, critics question the need for Sky Sports 5.
2. gparsons
Rehearsals begin for Alan Clark - The Musical.
1. campaign1
A crowd of hopeful supporters awaits the arrival of Silvio Berlusconi.
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At 24th Sep 2009, JeremiahJobling wrote:The new Football Injury Academy was having to turn away applicants
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At 24th Sep 2009, JeremiahJobling wrote:Dr. Paul Morris' new Football Injury Academy was having to turn away applicants
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At 24th Sep 2009, NorfolkOnce wrote:All the usual precaution were taken at the AGM of the Narcolepsy Society
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At 24th Sep 2009, JeremiahJobling wrote:Assassins are taught the art of killing victims silently using mattress-side
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At 24th Sep 2009, rogueslr wrote:Now before we start, the UK Border Agency says we need to have a look at all your documents.
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At 24th Sep 2009, JeremiahJobling wrote:Luckily, Blue Peter managed to find most of the participants queueing up for the sales to start
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At 24th Sep 2009, JeremiahJobling wrote:As usual, a pizza-delivery boy on a moped started the process by knocking the first person over
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At 24th Sep 2009, NorfolkOnce wrote:Photographic proof that the Financial Regulators really were asleep on the job..
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At 24th Sep 2009, rogueslr wrote:Men and women in bed on Blue Peter? It would never have happened in Biddy Baxter's day.
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At 24th Sep 2009, JeremiahJobling wrote:Unfortunately, George got hiccups and started halfway along the course a little too early
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At 24th Sep 2009, SkarloeyLine wrote:Alton Towers launches credit-crunch helter skelter
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At 24th Sep 2009, SkarloeyLine wrote:Here's one I laid on earlier.
(Well, someone had to say it.)
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At 24th Sep 2009, LaurenceLane wrote:You're not supposed to be on the same matress! Oh, sorry Mr Leslie I didn't realise it was you.
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At 24th Sep 2009, Bangledancer wrote:"It's backwards. Fall Backwards..." Dan reminded himself anxiously, trying very hard not to think about the great mattress dominoes disaster of 2007.
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At 24th Sep 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:All would have gone well if Mr.Wilson (right) hadn't suffered from eneuresis
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At 24th Sep 2009, Manisha wrote:Sleeping on the job???
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At 24th Sep 2009, SkarloeyLine wrote:Get down, slept
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At 24th Sep 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:Boris Johnson insists that all London pedestrians must be protected with air-bags
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At 24th Sep 2009, SkarloeyLine wrote:Sadly, Helen was disqualified for unorthodox use of sticky-back plastic.
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At 24th Sep 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:#12 Why not just "Here's one bed I made earlier"
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At 24th Sep 2009, Kudosless wrote:"Get Down, Shep" was all very well, but where would the poor dog find 100 duvets?
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At 24th Sep 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:Unfortunately, Gerald (yellow shirt) hurt his back when he fell on the chamber-pot
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At 24th Sep 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:And the final mattress was lined up to hit and destroy James May's Lego house
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At 24th Sep 2009, Kudosless wrote:They were lucky to find 100 people with Sticky Plastic Backs
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At 24th Sep 2009, teazeldad wrote:Boris Johnson admits that the alternative to bendy buses may still need some thought
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At 24th Sep 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:And this year's London Marathon will be sponsored by Ann Summers
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At 24th Sep 2009, Raven Clare wrote:However, nobody was willing to take the mattresses south of the Thames after midnight
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At 24th Sep 2009, Fi wrote:London's latest budget hotel launched...
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At 24th Sep 2009, Raven Clare wrote:The Bank of England was keen to show how buoyant the economy is
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At 24th Sep 2009, John_Sevenoaks wrote:Entrant in the World Amateur Spitting Championships is surprised by the recoil.
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At 24th Sep 2009, LaurenceLane wrote:Yes, shoulder pads are back, and the good news is they're even bigger.
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At 24th Sep 2009, John_Sevenoaks wrote:"Brace yourself, Nigel."
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At 24th Sep 2009, SkarloeyLine wrote:Unfortunately, Eduardo ruined the chain by falling forward.
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At 24th Sep 2009, Raven Clare wrote:Eider down, Shep
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At 24th Sep 2009, JudgePix wrote:Princess invites her friends to see if they can feel the pea.
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At 24th Sep 2009, NorfolkOnce wrote:I'm the Sandman.. No! I'm the Sandman..
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At 24th Sep 2009, Raven Clare wrote:They would have saved a fortune on mattresses if they'd just thought to hire 100 stuntmen
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At 24th Sep 2009, JudgePix wrote:Safe sex in the city?
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At 24th Sep 2009, Raven Clare wrote:Poor Derek really hurt himself, when he fell on the Bible the Gideons had left
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At 24th Sep 2009, snoozoff wrote:new reglementation from the nanny state
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At 24th Sep 2009, Kudosless wrote:"Get Down, wet Patch"
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At 24th Sep 2009, John_Sevenoaks wrote:Dorothy wished she was back in bed in Kansas.
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At 24th Sep 2009, Fi wrote:Step two of the Buzz Lightyear costume.
Get two toilet roll tubes, half an egg box, a wire coat hanger, some sticky-backed plastic and an adult...
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At 24th Sep 2009, Raven Clare wrote:But how are we going to get them to rise up to the fourth plinth?
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At 24th Sep 2009, Mhadaidh wrote:The employee at the mattress factory who had accidentally mixed superglue with the mattress coverings was hoping he would not be found out .... however ...........
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At 24th Sep 2009, snoozoff wrote:how to take the expression "watch your back" too seriously
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At 24th Sep 2009, rogueslr wrote:Queueing for a mortgage was going to take some time.
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At 24th Sep 2009, snoozoff wrote:dodomino
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At 24th Sep 2009, GervaseFen wrote:Metrolitan Police find a solution to the invasion of foreign backpackers - just push the first one over
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At 24th Sep 2009, Dodie James wrote:Everything about this new Speed Dating service was just that much quicker..
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At 24th Sep 2009, SkarloeyLine wrote:The producers admitted that this year's Appeal in aid of the homeless hadn't gone quite to plan.
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At 24th Sep 2009, John_Sevenoaks wrote:"Cut! False start, Lane 1. If you do that again, the whole team's out."
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At 24th Sep 2009, Flux Redux wrote:Woody was wishing he hadn't chosen that moment to live up to his name.
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At 24th Sep 2009, SkarloeyLine wrote:"And once we've all piled on top of each other, John will be able to walk up to Nelson's Column."
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At 24th Sep 2009, GervaseFen wrote:After the change in the law concerning product placement, Blue Peter is to be sponsored by Domino's Pizzas
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At 24th Sep 2009, rogueslr wrote:Well it was going to be the only century that England could manage this summer.
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At 24th Sep 2009, teazeldad wrote:He'd always known he was destined for greater things, and stardom. Even though the other saplings had laughed, and told him that he would be going nowhere, he'd known that one day he'd be the most famous tree *ever*. And finally, here it was, his big break, him, on Blue Peter, LIVE. Ok, so third from the front wasn't actually brilliant, but one day, one day...
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At 24th Sep 2009, Pugdriver205 wrote:Yet more evidence of health & safety madness - I mean have you SEEN the size of these new elastoplasts ?
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At 24th Sep 2009, Dodie James wrote:Queuing up for the new budget airline 'sleeper' service to Edinburgh..
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At 24th Sep 2009, RMutt-Urinal wrote:Whoaaaaaaaa - Bodyform - Bodyform for you.........
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At 24th Sep 2009, Kudosless wrote:Where's Katy Hill gone, just when you need her?
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At 24th Sep 2009, John_Sevenoaks wrote:Boris johnson announces 'safest ever Olympics' as officials test the new barriers for the 400m hurdles.
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At 24th Sep 2009, GervaseFen wrote:Poor Derek (right) only turned up because he thhout they said there'd be a "domino tricks"
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At 24th Sep 2009, Ben wrote:Ed Balls' tentative plan to allow physical contact sports back into school P.E. lessons receives enthusiastic support from Dreams.
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At 24th Sep 2009, Emwemm wrote:We all need somebody to lean on!
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At 24th Sep 2009, GervaseFen wrote:Poor Derek (right) only turned up because he thought they said there'd be a "domino tricks"
(correction)
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At 24th Sep 2009, RMutt-Urinal wrote:Delegates line up to join the Health and Safety Executive annual conference.
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At 24th Sep 2009, rogueslr wrote:The whole record was eventually disqualified when it was noted that Jo Brand hadn't been using a matress.
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At 24th Sep 2009, GervaseFen wrote:No double mattresses allowed, Miss. Only Singletons.
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At 24th Sep 2009, careless_texter wrote:As disgruntled Terry Wogan listeners head for the ´óÏó´«Ã½, some of them seem to have taken their 'TOG' membership too far.
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At 24th Sep 2009, Emwemm wrote:Roll Britannia!
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At 24th Sep 2009, GervaseFen wrote:There's always somebody who has to spoil it for everybody else, isn't there? OK, who brought the trampoline?
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At 24th Sep 2009, SkarloeyLine wrote:"I'm sorry, but the Book of Records people are away celebrating Arthur's Day - do you mind doing the whole thing all over again?"
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At 24th Sep 2009, Lloyd-Barnes wrote:Delegates prepare for Gordon’s keynote speech
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At 24th Sep 2009, Emwemm wrote:There were ten in the bed and the little one said....
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At 24th Sep 2009, lolkat wrote:London Housing Association innovations team inspired by tortoise.
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At 24th Sep 2009, littleDickie wrote:When the very last person falls backward on the left set, she will trigger all the fallers on the right side to pitch forward, and this will prove the NHS test as the "leading source of calamity..."
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At 24th Sep 2009, gm_coates wrote:Blue Peter were falling over themselves to get into the record books.
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At 24th Sep 2009, JimmyG wrote:The DFS complaints department was inundated following the mishap between the waterbed manufacturer and glue factory
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At 24th Sep 2009, Lee Newham wrote:Derren Browns latest trick wasn't quite going to plan...
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At 24th Sep 2009, bmerren wrote:The Katie Price fancy dress event was a huge success.
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At 24th Sep 2009, JimmyG wrote:The shoe tests were conclusive that platform heels just aren't practical.
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At 24th Sep 2009, daveworkman wrote:Brian was a charitable fellow, but after the budget cuts to this year's Appeal Totaliser, he was crossing his fingers that the nation's children had finally got bored of Bring & Buy Sales...
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At 24th Sep 2009, Lee Newham wrote:There were no winners in the 'Han Solo in encased in carbonite lookalike' competition.
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At 24th Sep 2009, ZingyZangyZongy wrote:With gridlock in most London streets, this is about the only thing moving in the capital today
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At 24th Sep 2009, rogueslr wrote:And exciting, new, cutting edge research from Milton Keynes University shows that people with matresses tied to their back tend to fall, err, backwards.
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At 24th Sep 2009, ZingyZangyZongy wrote:Bed see-sores
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At 24th Sep 2009, Discombobulator wrote:When Derren Brown told people that they were 'now released from their sofas' he forgot about the ones who were watching in bed. Boy were they angry.
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At 24th Sep 2009, campaign1 wrote:A crowd of hopeful supporters awaits the arrival of Silvio Berlusconi
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At 24th Sep 2009, ZingyZangyZongy wrote:Prats Domino
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At 24th Sep 2009, Pugdriver205 wrote:I could swear the original ad said "Fit blonde seeks multiple partners for mattress dominance" -
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At 24th Sep 2009, ZingyZangyZongy wrote:It was unfortunate that Godfrey had had to pop into the toilet just at the crucial moment
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At 24th Sep 2009, Flux Redux wrote:This year's hide 'n seek championship was destined to be short lived.
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At 24th Sep 2009, campaign1 wrote:The crowd prepared for Gorden Browns conference speech.....
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At 24th Sep 2009, ZingyZangyZongy wrote:Strange bed-fallers
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At 24th Sep 2009, Catherine O wrote:You can't accuse us of lying down on the job.
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At 24th Sep 2009, rogueslr wrote:You were told to wear the fox what?
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At 24th Sep 2009, ZingyZangyZongy wrote:Derek had wanted a four-poster, but there was a strike on
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At 24th Sep 2009, Rob Falconer wrote:Boris Johnson crates a new area of London, Bedstead Heath
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At 24th Sep 2009, Catherine O wrote:Everybody wanted to be that guy in the yellow shirt.
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