it`s a knockout

[Troll]

Right-enuff venom and stuff. How many times have we all attended/organised one of those public days and got bored? How about competitions and displays so Joe Public can see we actually do have a sense of humour (behind the ranting). Contributions please....

the red barrows display team-dazzling and breathtaking displays of seat of the pants barrow flyin...red smoke flares/commentary/synchro pairs..

re-arrange the mosaic to make a rude word...

trowel semaphore/throwing/jugglin/
speed sections
blue and white pottery wanging
static portaloo garden displays
surveyors staff javelin (oops HS)
making genitalia out of vertical stratigraphy
rudest word snuck onto a context sheet...
pin the ranging rod on the culture secretaries bum

[Mole]

How about a comedy routine?

Senior management digging a nice deep sticky cess pit - would be quite short though as most haven't dug for years!

Pottery specalists being pelted with muddy pot - a type of stocks thing

Site staff running up planks/ across water features/ through swamps while wearing strange atire - probably not - to close to reality

[Sith]

Red Barrows? Definitely been done before and probably with better maintained equipment than most sites could muster:

http://722sqnatc.org.uk/training/projects/barrows/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/article...rows.shtml

I seem to be doing more and more backward looking this week, but anyone who remembers the 70s heyday of It's a Knockout (Eddie Waring, what a star!), will remember that much fun was had when carrying improbably full buckets of strangely coloured liquid over a lethal looking obstacle course, while wearing massive boots. So what about a comedy bailing game (my original idea of "tipping the elsan" has been rejected on H&S grounds). [:p]

S

[Reggie]

Comedy bailing game.......sounds good....

I suddenly have the "Bucket of Water Song" from Tiswas going round in my head.....but who to put in the cage, that's the question ......

[Sith]

What about races between the team mascots updated and made relevant for archaeology. Both mascots have to complete a fiendish obstacle course while wearing huge shoes and grotesque masks of say..David Miles and Tony Robinson!

Cue hilarity and an apoplectic Stuart Hall "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...Tooony, come and have a look at this!..ha ha ha ha haaaaaa! Guido, what's the time on the official stopwatch ha ha!"

S

[Tim]

We need an Italian Umpire who can't speak english and a couple of dollybirds on the scoreboard as well

Little Tim

[Tim]

"the Red Barrows" do really exist or ar least used to in the early 90's. they were exactly as you would expect- red wheelbarrows (with RAF roundels)pushed in the the Red Arrows formations.

Little Tim

[sniper]

how about spoil heap ski jumping, or barrow toboganning.
plumb bob hammer?
as for troll's suggestion of rudest word on a context sheet, I remember going to fill in one for a certain unit only to find the prompts had been altered by an unknown person before printing. Let's just say that it didn't say cut.

++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++

[destroyer]

what about something a bit artistic and creative?
Spoilheap sculpture would be a fun day for all the family although you'd have to go some to beat the almost full scale replica medieval Venetian fortress, complete with cannon (ok sewer pipes), that i managed a couple of years ago

[Sith]

Have barrow tobogganed in the past, highly exhilarating but yet again probably in contravention of every H&S rule going (I did wear appropriate PPE though).

What about some cyber-sports such as Flaming and on-line dummy spitting.

Following the Ashes, what about site cricket? Shovels for bats, up-turned wheelbarrows for goals and a cobble for a ball. And I'm sure that if we can find an active site to play on, we'll be guaranteed a bumping pitch. Might need to use a small handshovel as a box. [:0]

S