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The Lovely Skips Competition

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Skips (known as dumpsters in some of the colonies) are usually filled with garbage in a totally chaotic manner, but not any more, because once a year, and only for a single week, there is now The Lovely Skips Competition.

The winner of the competition will be the candidate who's rubbish filled skip displays the most original/artistic/tastefull display/arrangement of its diverse detritus.

xenzag, Oct 19 2009

Skip Art http://starwards.org.uk/?p=256
Needs more rubbish [bigsleep, Oct 19 2009]

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       [+] I call it "zen rubble, and mattresses and white appliances of unknown origin".
bigsleep, Oct 19 2009
  

       very creative. US dumpsters are too high to get in and out easily, and the smell! don't even go there. And according to these photos, you didn't invent this...
dentworth, Oct 19 2009
  

       Those images in the link are not what I have in mind. The idea is to use/re-arrange the existing contents... bit like flower arranging.
xenzag, Oct 20 2009
  

       //dumpsters are too high to get in and out easily//
The voice of experience, [dent]?
coprocephalous, Oct 20 2009
  

       I think a more useful competition that would be just as fun would be to provide each contestant with very large, identical piles of garbage, and the winner is the one that fits the most in a bin with a lid. Lid has to be able to shut completely. Still, this would be neat to see. [+]
21 Quest, Oct 20 2009
  

       @[copro] ***good times***
dentworth, Oct 20 2009
  

       Where do i sign up?
kaz, Oct 20 2009
  

       Anywhere you see a skip!
wagster, Oct 20 2009
  

       How do I know it'll get judged?
kaz, Oct 20 2009
  

       //How do I know it'll get judged?//   

       You doubt the *judgement* of the 'Bakery?
Jinbish, Oct 20 2009
  

       Can we still get the deal if you live in the U.S.? Or willwe over here just be arranging our dumpsters to get laughed at?
Rmac, Oct 20 2009
  

       I think it's one of those things they claim they do to confuse us lower classes.
RayfordSteele, Oct 20 2009
  

       I've had some good times dumpster diving. The better the economy, the better the finds. I own a beautiful fifty year old leather valise, it just needed a zipper.   

       I try to ride herd on my neighbors and their dumpster habits. I arrange for maximum fill and relocate their misses. Some people's kids...
normzone, Oct 20 2009
  

       give me an O! give me a C! give me a D! what does that spell? Craaaaazy! Craaaaazy! Craaaaazy! GO team!
WcW, Oct 20 2009
  

       What is one to make, then, of the use of "Skip" as a nickname here in the States? (Is it elsewhere as well?)
smendler, Oct 20 2009
  

       ( I mean, first I had to deal with being called "Skippy Peanut Butter," then it was "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"... now this.)
smendler, Oct 20 2009
  

       But I'll bun it anyway, it's a fine idea.
smendler, Oct 20 2009
  

       Then there's the rock-skipping community. This is sure to annoy them.
21 Quest, Oct 20 2009
  
      
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