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The pool was a simple lava pool!
All local "bullies" were encouraged to participate, and always agreed to agressiveness, with unknown results.
This was BRILLIANCE" and "VIRAL", and "LOW BUDGET" entertainment. The prize still hasn't been won.
One after one, they lined up to win prize. One after one, they failed. The trick was to hold your breath, I think, and no-one copped onto it.
As a boy of eighteen, I could never figure out why such men of Herculean physiques failed to win "Game". It took me many years of research to dicover that solution was in stone, and indeed, only understood it properly, a few minutes ago.
Legend had it that instructions were actually carved into tablet of granite, but they were written in "Javascript", a language with origins from island "Java" (this island is still in existence, before I broke my spring, anyway).
Wasn't I a lucky boy that my true nature wasn't discovered as quickly and easily as I discoved solution, for I would surely have drowned!
"Swimming and stones are not exclusive", I remember some old lad saying at a time more trivial than now.
Mick Savage. Indepth columnist with THE TRIVIAL TIMES. savageswimming@thetrivialtimes.com
Thick Mick is "an expert" on historical matters, with the The Trivial Times.