Monday, 2011
Gary Smyth
Sort of a softball trivia today. Considered to be the largest example. Where is it?
Be back this late afternoon, other meetings all morning.
Monday, 2011
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John Veerkamp
I woodn't answer this early for fear of getting in Dutch.
Re: Monday, 2011
#3A bit more specific please.
Gary Smyth
I'm pretty sure you're there but too easy that way.
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Gary Smyth
John gets credit for the nation.
Worlds largest wooden shoe made out of one piece of wood, measuring approximately 159 x 68 x 66 inches. In the Guinness Book of Records since June 26, 1991. It stands in the village of Enter, in the municipality of Wierden, Overijssel, [[the Netherlands])
A clog is a type of footwear traditionally worn by workers as protective clothing in factories, mines and farms.
There are various types of clog. Traditional clogs are shoes or sandals made predominantly out of wood, and are associated with the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Galicia, Lithuania and Sweden. .
A clog can also be a special kind of shoe worn while clog-dancing (clogging). They are similar to tap shoes, but the taps are free to click against each other, therefore producing a different sound than tap shoes. They can also be a type of heavy boot or shoe with sides, uppers and typically thick wooden soles, and may have steel toecaps and/or steel reinforcing inserts in the undersides of the soles. In Clog fighting, known in Lancashire as 'purring', it was a combative means of settling disputes. Clog fighting and its associated betting by spectators is now illegal.
�It is all up and down fighting here. They fought quite naked, excepting their clogs. When one has the other down on the ground he first endeavors to choke him by squeezing his throat, then he kicks him on the head with his clogs. Sometimes they are very severely injured.�
