# jeremy clarkson (surprise) ice bucket challenge **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 28, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-surprise-ice-bucket-challenge/711077 "2015-01-28T03:32:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-surprise-ice-bucket-challenge/711077/1 "2015-01-28T03:32:02Z")
I was looking at the internet _and I found_ **this…** :p ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-surprise-ice-bucket-challenge/711077/2 "2015-01-28T04:40:45Z")
Damn great. Although Captain Slow is still my favorite “gear-head”. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-surprise-ice-bucket-challenge/711077/3 "2015-01-28T18:17:26Z")
That was great, although the “mother f\*\*\*\*\*” is not exactly safe for work. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-surprise-ice-bucket-challenge/711077/4 "2015-01-28T18:23:22Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > I was looking at the internet _and I found_ **this…** > > :p I’ve the strangest feeling that if there had been bidding as to who would get to pour that bucket among the show’s stars, that ALS fund raising would have passed a large milestone very early in 2015… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-surprise-ice-bucket-challenge/711077/5 "2015-01-28T18:31:30Z")
Well, in one episode (the North Pole Challenge), Clarkson was pushed into a hole in the ice during survival training. So I guess they knew his ticker could handle it. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-surprise-ice-bucket-challenge/711077/6 "2015-01-29T01:18:03Z")
What do they threaten to say if any of them actually die on the show? “In other news”? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-surprise-ice-bucket-challenge/711077/7 "2015-01-29T01:23:23Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > What do they threaten to say if any of them actually die on the show? “In other news”? …with the second half of the show devoted to self-modified hearses driving through Romania… ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-surprise-ice-bucket-challenge/711077/8 "2015-01-29T02:17:01Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > …with the second half of the show devoted to self-modified hearses driving through Romania… …Which have to be made out of old Jaguars, and there’s a scavenger hunt along the way… ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-surprise-ice-bucket-challenge/711077/9 "2015-01-29T04:40:50Z")
> [@Apocalypso](#): > > …Which have to be made out of old Jaguars, and there’s a scavenger hunt along the way… Trying to find another piano to drop on a Morris Marina. Naaah - the one interview is what I’m thinking of. I’ll have to go hang out around YouTube this weekend.