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    You couldnt make some of thi stuff up if you tried </p>

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    <font size="2">Ananova: </font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="height: 13px"><font size="2">[​IMG]</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="80%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="bottom"><font size="4">Nurse wins &pound;25k rock, paper, scissors title</font></td></tr></tbody></table>

    A male nurse from Texas won &pound;25,000 after winning the final of the US Rock Paper Scissors Tournament.</p>

    Jaime Langridge, from Odessa, beat more than 300 contestants to the title, reports The Times.</p>

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    The pre-tournament favourite, Antonie &quot;Shears&quot; Maanum, was eliminated despite trying to put off opponents by wearing a red silk boxing gown.</p>

    Paramedics were on hand in case of &quot;wrist or shoulder dislocations&quot;, while each bout took place under trained referees.</p>

    Fouls include the vertical paper throw, known as &quot;the handshake&quot;, illegal because it resembles scissors - as well as the horizontal scissors throw, outlawed for the opposite reason.</p>

    The game, traditionally a way of settling playground disputes, is on the cusp of recognition as a global sport.</p>

    Matti Leshem, the national league's commissioner, has petitioned the International Olympic Committee to make it an event. Now he wants to bring &quot;the greatest competition ever to sweep the USA&quot; to Britain.</p>

    &quot;This is a sport that creates harmony,&quot; he says. &quot;I want to set up the RPS Foundation to promote this sport as a simple method of conflict resolution.&quot;</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
     
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    Expect it on the BBC soon!

    "The pre-tournament favourite, Antonie "Shears" Maanum, was eliminated despite trying to put off opponents by wearing a red silk boxing gown."

    Such dirty tricks!

    I think it was Mitchell and Webb did a sketch during which one says "paper defeats rock" and then the other throws a rock at the guys head and knocks him out "I think not!"
     
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    With Linekar presenting ? nt
     
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    Not sure if right or not but I sure I have read somewhere that the World Champion in this is English !!!!
     
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    nt

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