The 65 Best Planking Pictures From Around the World. (motorcycle, walking, photography)

[JD59]

The fine art of planking, where people are photographed face down with stiffened arms and legs, has already swept out of Australia and taken the world by storm. Formally called “the laying down game,” it has encouraged people to produce surprising and surreal images that have entertained millions.

Planking Pictures | Best 65 Plankings | Geekosystem

[Ringo1]

Well, I'm glad I now know what it is!

I see my son tweet about 'planking' but I had no idea what it was. And I couldn't ask since he doesn't know I can access his twitters on line!

[Bulldogdad]

HAH ran into a group of Plankers in San Francisco a few weeks back in front of the National Academy of Sciences. LOL as they tried to ignore me while a was walking amongst them with my 6'3" 285lbs frame and Motorcycle boots. LOL

[NHDave]

Apparently I'm to old to get the point of this

[stonecypher5413]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

HAH ran into a group of Plankers in San Francisco a few weeks back in front of the National Academy of Sciences. LOL as they tried to ignore me while a was walking amongst them with my 6'3" 285lbs frame and Motorcycle boots. LOL

And you didn't take the opportunity to get planked with them?

You'd have gone viral.

Every generation's got something like this that mystifies their elders -- telephone-booth stuffing and VW Bug stuffing were IT when I was a youngster:

Telephone Booth Stuffing - The Bad Fads Museum (http://www.badfads.com/pages/events/phonebooth-stuffing.html - broken link)

[Happy in Wyoming]

Originally Posted by NHDave

Apparently I'm to old to get the point of this

I hope that on the day I was born I was too old to get the point of this or any other sort of a neurotic need for attention.

[stonecypher5413]

Now there's Horsemaning:

'Horsemaning': 1920s photography craze to replace planking | Mail Online

[jimmyhendricks]

Has anybody here tried planking? I'm eager to try, I thinks its really funny

[Geneyus]

Originally Posted by NHDave

Apparently I'm to old to get the point of this

Most of the time, the funny part about it is the setting the person chooses. I think it is funny when someone is planking on their office fax machine or on a guardrail on the side of a road.

It looks stupid when someone is just lying in the grass or in a cooler. It isn't planking when your entire body is supported. You're supposed to have a minimal amount of contact and the rest of your body is rigid and hanging in mid air. I don't do it myself, but some of the pictures make me laugh due to their creativity.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

We used to have our own games like this and we called it "stupid drunk stuff". I think it's funny.