Finn wins cell chucking contest

(OK I have to admit I was WAB'ing when I found this - I'm supposed to be completing a presentation for iWeek)

According to The Register, that UK bastion of scrupulously objective and bland commentary on things telecom, tech and IT, a Finn called Tommi Huotari took gold at the eighth Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships in Savonlinna.  The distance was quoted as being "a creditable 2.77 Campbells", which led me to this Register article which defines a Campbell (among other fascinating measure such as a Bulgarian Funbag) as being 231lg (where lg is a standard unboiled linguine which is equivalent to 14cm, 0.02784 perches, 0.462 Japanese shyaku or 0.0007568 Ancient Greek stadium ptolemeys.

The distance travelled by a tantrum-driven flying PDA shall be defined in Campbells (1cB=231lg). Example: "Yeah, I asked that Foxy Brown to turn her car stereo down and she only went and threw her bleedin' Blackberry about three Campbells."

Sheesh... I thought I was pushing the envelope with the post about the airspeed of an unladen swallow!