Originally published at: Competitive worm charming is no joke | Boing Boing
…
5 Likes
This is a simple typo and I’m kind of sorry to call it out, but I really love what it suggests.
26 Likes
What a captivating, fascinating ritual.
Dare i say, charming?
10 Likes
Blood Worm hunting in my youth, sold 10 worms for a $1.00, it was my first business.
8 Likes
Well what else are the English to do in the Cheese Rolling off season?
(I was going to say I’m English so I can make fun of us but then thought, really, we’re fair game for everyone)
13 Likes
It’s true, we do have some of the dumbest shit for traditions.
12 Likes
Really?
10 Likes
Cheese rolling, pancake tossing, running around churches with hot cross buns, worm charming, gurning, sheep dog trials (actually, they’re ace), bowls, cricket, fearing that ravens might leave the Tower of London and doom us all, pigeon racing, warming the pot before putting in the tea but always bringing the kettle to the pot or is it the other way around? Excommunicated if you do it wrong.
And every British person has a top 5 biscuits.
15 Likes
3 Likes
Ok, now that is serious business, biscuits could potentially end all strife in the Galaxy or end everything we hold dear.
4 Likes
“Worm charming” must be the British upper crust term. In the South we call it “worm grunting.”
Not kidding…
7 Likes
The current world record for worm charming was made on 29 June 2009, by a 10-year-old named Sophie Smith from Willaston, England. Smith raised 567 worms
I dune know what this world is coming to
4 Likes
What, no electrodes allowed?
5 Likes
truly riveting I wonder if there is a rivalry between all the different live bait factions.
They couldn’t compete with the Sopchoppy Worm Grunting Festival in Florida. 
Worms crawl to the surface to escape moles which they detect by soil vibrations. People in many places learned to take advantage of this to get worms to come to them.
It isn’t oneboxing, but Ken Catania did some fun research on it
https://as.vanderbilt.edu/catanialab/research/worm-grunting/
4 Likes
In the South, maybe.
4 Likes
1 Like
Yep, in the midwest too, we’ve always known this activity as worm grunting.
2 Likes
MST3K does a good job sending this one up.
4 Likes
