Cow Pat Throwing
From the collection of
A Pub With No Beer
- Armagh
- 1984-10
Cow Pat Throwing (Good Evening Ulster)
Good clean fun? The surprising sport of cowpat throwing.
This report for UTV's Good Evening Ulster shines a spotlight on the niche sport of cowpat throwing taking place in Belfast's Botanic Gardens. The demonstrator of this unusual pastime is English Country and Western singer Hank Wangford who claims to have picked it up in Oklahoma.
Hank shows the reporter some cow pats which he says are sadly unsuitable for throwing, but reveals that he has provided some synthetic cow pats which will do the job just fine. With a mighty roar, Hank then demonstrates his throwing skills and his effort is measured in distance.
Other celebrities try their hand, with local DJ Linda Jayne, English impressionist Johnny More, and Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket all stepping up to the challenge. They are all present to use the strange proceedings as publicity for the Belfast Festival at Queen's.
Good Evening Ulster was the weekday tea-time local news round-up for Ulster Television throughout much of the 1980s and helped to launch the careers of household names such as Gloria Hunniford and Eamonn Holmes.
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A Walk on the Weird Side
The extraordinary, the absurd and the downright weird combine in this collection of reports from UTV’s nightly Good Evening Ulster news programme.
Despite the often bleak aspect of local news in Northern Ireland during the decades relating to The Troubles, ordinary - and sometimes extraordinary - life continued on. This series of some of the more off-the-wall reports from the UTV news archives shows the citizens of Northern Ireland engaging in unusual schemes, fundraisers, pastimes and humorous events.
From Earl Bird attempting to set a new world record for non-stop yodelling to a nuclear bunker disco, from a pub with no beer to a canine snooker referee, you’ll find this collection full to the brim with the odd, the eccentric and the full-on weird.
23 videos in this collection
1
A Pub With No Beer
2
Window Cleaning World Record
3
The Garden Tiger
4
Bay City Rollers Fans
5
Model Car World Record Attempt
6
Buried Alive World Record Part 1
7
Buried Alive World Record Part 2
8
Cow Pat Throwing
9
There's No Business like Gnomes Business
10
The Dog Rufferee
11
There are Leprechauns in Those There Hills!
12
To Heaven and Beyond! A Con Brio Rock Odyssey
13
Snooker Marathon
14
Hula Hoop Champion
15
Death Dive
16
Come away from the Fairy RIng, O Builders!
17
Whiskey Galore!
18
The Spirit of Radio
19
Laughter is the Best Medicine
20
White Christmas
21
Guinness World Record Breaking Weekend
22
Clown Around at the Community Circus
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