What’s the funniest thing underground?

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TheCret!n
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5 years ago

Morning all.

Following on from my “Strangest thing” question, I’d like to know the funniest thing to happen to you underground?

For me, it was probably watching someone who didn’t know Rampgill very well, carry a load of scaff into Rampgill, rather than Hangingshaw.
I didn’t have it in me to shout him and tell him his mistake.
He reappeared where he was supposed to be... Eventally.

Leif.

“Oh what a fun experience, my ‘Ouse is full of deviants....”

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Stu_curry
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5 years ago

The funniest thing I’ve seen underground is watching a certain individual rapidly disappearing on the wrong side of a collapsing dig in Smallcleugh. Or it could be watching the same individual rapidly disappearing on the wrong side of a collapsing dig in Rampgill. :lol::lol::lol:

TheCret!n
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5 years ago

I wouldn’t know anything about that, Stu...

“Oh what a fun experience, my ‘Ouse is full of deviants....”

gNick
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5 years ago

Pete Jackson losing his balance and falling over very slowly in deep ochre - real time slow motion!

Don't look so embarrassed, it's a family trait...

Roy Morton
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5 years ago

Waist deep wading along a very long and grotty adit on the Cornish North Coast.
Reaching a crossroads, the guy in front tells me that there's a shaft in the centre and to skirt round it. I passed the message back to the guy behind me, "OK" he said.When I reached the other side I heard a commotion behind me, and turned around in time to see this guy's head disappearing beneath the water.
On surfacing he spluttered "I'll remember that on the way back"!
No prizes for guessing what happened 😉

"You Chinese think of everything!"
"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"

Rich B
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5 years ago

Friend of mine trying to avoid the deep water in Hangingshaw by bridging the arching. Failed and face planted into the gloop.

TheCret!n
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5 years ago

"gNick" wrote:
Pete Jackson losing his balance and falling over very slowly in deep ochre - real time slow motion!

Any time anyone has tried the ochre bath in GGHL.
That’s funny...
I recall your swimming lesson in it, Nick...

Leif.

“Oh what a fun experience, my ‘Ouse is full of deviants....”

Roy Morton
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5 years ago

One of the guys who succumbed to the ochre. So so funny.

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"You Chinese think of everything!"
"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"

Wormster
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5 years ago

BigBash08:

Up in either Hospital ot Taylor's Level, can't remember which, I came to a fork witha nice little seat, so I did and turned my light off fora snooze. Psysk came round a benend in the level, nearly shat himself, as I turned on my light and shouted BOO!! very loudly.

:devil: that I am!

Better to regret something you have done - than to regret something you have not done.

Roy Morton
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5 years ago

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"Wormster" wrote:
BigBash08:

Up in either Hospital ot Taylor's Level, can't remember which, I came to a fork witha nice little seat, so I did and turned my light off fora snooze. Psysk came round a benend in the level, nearly shat himself, as I turned on my light and shouted BOO!! very loudly.

:devil: that I am!

I did something similar in Cligga. There's a small chamber below floor level with a tiny window that looks out on the level at floor level.
I wriggled down into the chamber and waited for my mate to come looking for me.
He's a big bloke but screamed like a girl when I reached out from the dark and grabbed his ankle. :lol:

"You Chinese think of everything!"
"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"