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Rules
First, the rules. (That's right. This is not 'Nam. This is planking. There are rules.)
Directly quoted from the official Planking Facebook page, which has more than 530,000 fans:
1) You must always lay face down, ensuring your face remains expressionless for the duration of the Plank.
2) Your legs must remain straight, and together with toes pointed.
3) Your arms must be placed by your side, held straight and fingers pointed.
4) You must make it known that you are Planking. Saying 'I am Planking' usually get this across. Sternly announcing it will ensure a good result.
5) Your safety should always be considered. Properly thought through Planking procedures should always go to plan. Never put your self at undue risk.
6) Every Plank that is captured must be named.
But wait, there's more.
"Someone has to take a picture," said Carroll Brown, creator of the Planking Association of America, based in Columbia, Md.
Then you must post it on some sort of social media site -- Facebook, Twitter, Lockerz or even a real-life bulletin board if you really want to go old-school.
Boom. You've planked. Now you wait for other people to comment. You might even get unofficial "points," based on degree of difficulty, hilarity or both.
Says Ronald Chapman, creator of the Planking in Houston Facebook page (and whose first plank, he says, was on a police car parked outside a restaurant): "The crazier the place, the funnier it looks."
And that's the whole point. But how did it start in the first place?
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