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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation. The Bondi Icebergs reopened on the

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Speaker 1: weekend they have their traditional winter swim. They fixed the pool. Well,

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Speaker 1: that was the thing, wasn't it. It was smashed. Remember that

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Speaker 1: at the start of April there was an incredible swell

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Speaker 1: that brought about the waves that just smashed the glass

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Speaker 1: and all the windows of the icebergs. So they've had

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Speaker 1: to close the pool. But they have their annual ice

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Speaker 1: jumping tradition. This is where members of the icebergs whole

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Speaker 1: blocks of ice and jump into the water. My friend

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Speaker 1: Anita is a member of the iceberg.

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Speaker 2: You do double a chattery with her.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're quite strict rules with the icebergs that you

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Speaker 1: have to swim every week for a number for a

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Speaker 1: number of seasons, and if you don't, I think you

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Speaker 1: have to apply in writing. It's very old fashioned and

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Speaker 1: it's only after you've swum for a number of years.

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Speaker 1: I think that you become a member where you can

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Speaker 1: jump in and take part when if you feel like it,

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Speaker 1: but don't have to go every week.

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Speaker 2: Well, they don't want diletons.

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Speaker 1: They don't want diletons because it can.

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Speaker 2: Be tool city around there and someone will argue that

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Speaker 2: go and you never see them again. You're going to

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Speaker 2: have the stones and show up every week.

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Speaker 1: And to see your shrunken stones through the winter. So

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Speaker 1: from Bondai icebergs to icebergs of a different kind. There's

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Speaker 1: The University of Minnesota has such a thing as a

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Speaker 1: Lettuce Club and every year they have an annual competition

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Speaker 1: could you eat.

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Speaker 3: An entire head of lettuce in under three minutes? This

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Speaker 3: is the University of Minnesota Lettice Club, a group that

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Speaker 3: meets once a year to see who can eat a

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Speaker 3: one pound head of iceberg lettice the fastest whe or

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Speaker 3: without dressing. The all time record two minutes and thirty

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Speaker 3: five seconds. The winner is crowned Head Lettuce and has

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Speaker 3: to organize next year's meeting.

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Speaker 1: So they all have different techniques. They have to eat

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Speaker 1: a one pound lettuce, which is about half a ki low,

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Speaker 1: and it has to be an iceberg.

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Speaker 2: What's your strategy for you as smaller bites but faster

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Speaker 2: to me, so like a rabbit basically just nibble.

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah, and they all take it, as you can imagine,

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Speaker 1: very seriously.

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Speaker 2: Each lettice is formally weighed before the competition begins. Then

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Speaker 2: participates must place the right hand on their lettuce and

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Speaker 2: receave the pledge. Then they start chowing down to show

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Speaker 2: you finish the entire hand. You have to stand up,

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Speaker 2: raise the dam and prove your mouth is empty.

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Speaker 1: To wein doks dorks, absolute dorks, and you should see

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Speaker 1: the pictures of it. There's a guy with a big

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Speaker 1: lettuce on his head and he puts a lettuce crown

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Speaker 1: on the person who wins. You know, it's a lot

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Speaker 1: of ick involved. There's a dating scenario uni there that

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Speaker 1: would not be a group where I would think, for

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Speaker 1: I joined the claret club at least there was a

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Speaker 1: bit more grunt in that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you chucked over the curtain.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean this the letters competition. It does sound

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Speaker 1: like a ridiculo concept, doesn't it. But you know where

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Speaker 1: they're doing it just because.

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 1: You like to say.

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Speaker 2: It's such a disappointment.

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Speaker 1: You have to learn to love a pun