What do you need to pole dance? A pole. And where can you find a lot of poles that go unused? Carriages on the NYC Subway - do you see where this is going?

The routine itself is SFW, but the soundtrack isn't. picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

The winner, who will proudly represent the United States at the elite Miss Pole Dance Australia 2009 competition, was Jenyne Butterfly from Las Vegas. More at Sports Illustrated and The US Pole Dance website picked by suebe 8 months ago

Climbing the greasy pole was not a career aspiration but a national pastime for Indonesians celebrating the country's independence today.

*I need to meet an Indonesian woman* picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

A French pole vaulting champion has run naked with his pole through the streets of Paris and posted the video on the Internet, hoping to draw attention to his quest for a new sponsorship deal. picked by kakana 8 months ago

Pole dancing robots, a giant 3D animated face and a customised MIG jet are among artworks on display at the MuTate London exhibition. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Without the use of fossil fuels. They've reached halfway already. picked by gratheo 2 years ago

Alexander Baranov, an early 19th century governor of Russian Alaska helped improve the lives of Alaskan natives and helped broker a peace treaty. A 40-foot totem pole was erected 70+ years ago to commemorate the treaty. A rival tribe did the actual carving. Some believe that the image of Baranov is depicted nude as an insult and would like to have the pole carved anew. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Two teens could face murder charges after one of them threw a metal tent pole at their father's head, fatally injuring him. picked by Proverb 2 years ago

Nintendo are apparently in talks with Peekaboo (mildly nsfw), makers of home pole dancing kits, to create a version for the Wii. picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

Manish Rajpurohit has been hailed the luckiest teenager in India after he survived being skewered by a metal pole in a bus crash. The force of the smash rammed the four foot safety rail into Rajpurohit's forehead and through his skull - only missing his spine by a few millimetres. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

John Huston and his pal Tyler Fish became the first Americans to complete an unsupported ski trip to the North Pole this weekend. They carried everything with them without help. picked by suebe 7 months ago

A company that makes pole dancing equipment has announced plans to develop a videogame for Nintendo's motion-sensitive Wii console. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Diplomatic tensions could heat up between Russia, Denmark and other countries as they try to stake a claim on the North Pole and its buried oil reserves picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A wristwatch buried in the ice at the North Pole three years ago was found by a boy more than 1,800 miles away after it floated ashore on the Faroe Islands. picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

I guess dodgeball was getting old... now kids can learn to pole dance (just like mom). picked by Browntrout 3 years ago

Tesco, Britain's #1 chain, has removed a pole-dancing kit from the toys and games section of its website. Advertisement read ""Unleash the sex kitten inside..." picked by hypnotode 3 years ago

"It's clearly a distraction, somebody's going to turn their head to look at some girl flipping upside-down and spinning on a pole, and take their eyes off the road and could swerve and pop up the sidewalk and plow into a bunch of tourists that are walking along." picked by BrownTrout 1 week ago

Experience a frozen world of Eskimos and penguins where funny looking people sport about and seek to got their tongues stuck to frigid metal poles in creative and unusual ways. picked by suebe 12 months ago

"I was watching their choreography in particular."

Suuure you were buddy. picked by tragluk 1 year ago

A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish.

It is the first time one has been seen using a tool to hunt. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago