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- DID YOU KNOW...
-
- * That Ally Babba won the 2142 championships without having to fire a single
- weapon. When the game began he immediately landed his contraption and covered it
- with a green tarpaulin cleverly shaped as a giant cactus. All he then had to do
- was wait it out until the other pilots had destroyed each other, before
- re-emerging from his cunning hideaway as the winner! The use of green tarpaulin
- cleverly shaped as a giant cactus was subsequently banned.
-
-
- DID YOU KNOW...
-
- * That the longest game in Wingnuts history was finally abandoned after twelve
- days of continuous action, when both pilots starved to death during a lowlevel
- dogfight. This was the first and last instance of death by starvation within the
- arena, and led directly to the inclusion of a landing strip for tired wingnuts
- where free spamburgers are always available.
-
-
- DID YOU KNOW...
-
- * That in the 20th edition of "Wingnuts famous banned weaponry", there is an
- item on tactical nuclear warheads. Apparently in the end season game of 2150, a
- desperate wingnut called Stanley Spudley (infamous at the time for having never
- survived a single fight) decided to win the contest once and for all by
- strapping a nuclear warhead to the bottom of his contraption.
-
- Unfortunately for him, and in true Spudley Style, he was shot out of the air
- within the first few seconds of the game and never got the chance to activate
- his deadly device. The crash that followed was so terrible it became embedded in
- Wingnuts history as "The Spudley Splash", an infamous reference still used today
- by commentators describing similar spectacular crashes.
-
- Spudley was killed instantly in the crash, the collision so fierce that his
- plane was smashed into pieces of debris no bigger than a diced carrot. The only
- thing that survived was the warhead itself, lying unscathed amongst the remnants
- of his ruined contraption.
-
- It is ironic that even in death Spudley was robbed of the immortal fame he so
- desperately longed for, the first and last man to attempt nuclear warfare within
- the arena. Instead he is a footnote in the endless editions of "Spectacular
- Crashes", remembered only for his inherent skill at failure and for the hallowed
- phrase of pain "The Spudley Splash". Stanley Spudley, we salute you.
-
-
- DID YOU KNOW...
-
- * That the average combat life expectancy of a rookie wingnut is 42 seconds. And
- that"s including lunch breaks.
-
-
- DID YOU KNOW...
-
- * That before automated medical units were introduced, wingnuts had to rely on
- the SAS (Special Air Surgeons) to patch up their wounds during a game. To
- request medical help a wounded pilot had to wave a white flag over his head to
- alert the arena officials (a practice that became mistakenly synonymous with the
- sign of surrender). A special air surgeon would then be despatched, skydiving
- into the arena from above and hopefully "splashing" down onto the wingnut"s
- cockpit. Frontline combat surgery could then take place to save the wingnut"s
- life.
-
- This legendary squad of flying doctors became obsolete however with the arrival
- of medical units, which were cheaper and safer than their surgeon counterparts.
- Medical units didn"t kill their intended patients by landing on their heads, or
- stall a plane by getting shredded up in the propeller. And besides, the docs
- were becoming more famous than the wingnuts themselves, so of course, in the
- end, they had to go...
-
-
- DID YOU KNOW...
-
- * That a recent game of Wingnuts had to be stopped prematurely due to a pitch
- invasion by infuriated fans of the King. The game in question had been a rather
- vengeful affair, with the other pilots attempting to gang up on the King due to
- his previous unstoppable successes. Angered by this blasphemous injustice, two
- thousand fanatics managed to smash their way onto the arena floor from their
- spectator stadium below. They then proceeded to lynch every wingnut that was
- unfortunate enough to crash amongst the frenzied mob, refusing to vacate the
- area even under the onslaught of lowlevel strafing runs and acid-bomb raids from
- the surviving pilots above. The King, as it happened, had almost won the game
- anyway when it was stopped by panicking officials. He was later given a twelve
- month ban from the sport due to the unruly behaviour of his followers, a ban
- which he is still serving and which has made him a recluse in his twenty four
- billion mansion Disgraceland, situated in the Edwood Hills.
-
-
- DID YOU KNOW...
-
- * That in the early days of the sport pilots began the game on the ground, and
- had to sprint to their contraptions before they could take off. Unfortunately
- what usually occurred was a no-holds-barred melee between the grounded wingnuts,
- most of them being knocked out of the game before they had even taken to the
- air.
-
- This absurd situation finally came to a head when three hundred professional
- hockey-wrestlers defected from their own ailing sport and entered the fast
- growing game of Wingnuts, all of them realising that they could make vast
- amounts of doshmarks in this new flying game without ever having to fly.
-
- Of course the sprintstart system was abandoned soon afterwards, and replaced
- with a more practical system that made it illegal for wingnuts to leave their
- own cockpits. As for the wrestlers, well most of them gained employment as
- bouncers in the infamous pilots" tavern, The Sozzled Mariner, the descendants of
- which can still be found working there today.
-
-
- DID YOU KNOW...
-
- * That before the invention of cloning technology (frostytech), most wingnuts
- who survived the first 42 seconds of action could expect to live for three games
- before they bought it. The obvious problem with this was that the fans of the
- sport were unable to support their favourite pilots for very long (or even
- decide who their favourite pilots were), and had to buy expensive new fan-strips
- every few weeks.
-
- The other problem of course was actually finding people stupid enough to compete
- in the sport against these odds. In the early days wingnuts tended to be bitter
- life-sentence prisoners or desperate citizens who wanted to go out with a bang.
- These times have become known to Holy Doobies historians as the "nonsense
- years", with boring games of frenzied psychopaths endlessly trying to escape
- from the arena in their hijacked contraptions (failing of course to understand
- the basic implications of wraparound teleport walls), and short-sighted grannies
- viciously blowing up innocent cactii before flying into unnoticed
- mountain-sides.
-
- It can truly be said that the introduction of cloning technology breathed life
- back into the sport.
-
-
- DID YOU KNOW...
-
- * That in the 34th edition of "Wingnuts famous banned weaponry", there is an
- item on household birdseed. It transpires that in 2134 a cunning wingnut called
- Vlad Tepid coated his entire contraption with a thick layer of glue and
- birdseed, with the single intention of attracting any pigeons that were released
- into the arena.
-
- Initially his plan worked and he managed to lure in all three pigeons that were
- released. Unfortunately he also managed to attract a flock of migrating
- Vallopian Mongeese who happened to be flying by at the time, and went down
- screaming in a ball of sticky birdseed and feathers. He survived the crash but
- retired from the sport a week later, suffering (allegedly) from Repetitive Beak
- Injury.
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