h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I enjoyed your Takeshi article.

I suspect that the "stones" in Skipping Stones are actually expanded polystyrene, but are painted in stone-like colours. Clues are; 1) In one episode you could see a stone that had been broken by a previous competitor, and it was bright white inside. 2) The breakage had that typical "polystyrene fracture" look to it. 3) When people thud into the stones, the sound you sometimes hear suggests the impact is onto a low-density substance.
Craig Charles or Challenge TV are probably deliberately overstating the injuries to boost viewing figures, which I don't think is really necessary.

Cheers for reading Probably, the dominoes are made of it I reckon the sound effects on hitting are all added in editing either here or in Japan when the program was made but it can still make you wince when they smack into one square on Until later....
BCNU - Crescent

Much like the balls on bridge balls!!!

They do make you wince, especially when they are right in the face, or right in the happysacks Until later....
BCNU - Crescent

...I'd imagine when people run into the wrong doors in knock knock would hurt as well!!!

Oh nooooo ... Takeshi appears to have ended it's run on Challenge TV ... hope they bring it back. I wonder how much material is actually available? I've heard that the original japanese progs were much longer, some say they lasted a whole day, which seems about right considering that 100 people had to be whittled down to just a few.

Craig Charles is absolutly subdued by work at the moment. He's supposed to be filming the Red Dwarf film in Aussieland and he's doing robot wars for channel five!!!