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    Greasy pole, grease pole, or greased pole refers to a tall pole that has been made slippery with grease or other lubricants and thus difficult to grip...
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    Massachusetts, the festival involves a carnival, seine boat races, and the Greasy Pole contest, and attracts people from all over. The festival began in 1927...
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    The Greasy Pole (in Spanish: La cucaña, French: Le Mât de cocagne) is an oil painting on canvas executed ca. 1786–87 by the Spanish artist Francisco de...
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  • Palo-sebo (from the Spanish "pole-grease") is a traditional Filipino game. A local variant of the greasy pole, it is likely derived from the Spanish cucaña...
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  • his views on bugging and phone tapping after a death threat. 11 4 "The Greasy Pole" 16 March 1981 (1981-03-16) Plans for a new chemical factory hinge on...
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  • week's mini-challenge, the queens play The Hard Greasy Pole Game, in which they must climb up a greasy pole to reach a flag at the top in the fastest time...
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  • appearance in Make Mine a Million in 1959. In 1993, she appeared in Climb the Greasy Pole: Part 1, an episode of The Darling Buds of May.[citation needed] Askey...
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    the Cockaigne pole (Italian: cuccagna; Spanish: cucaña), a horizontal or vertical pole with a prize (like a ham) at one end. The pole is covered with...
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    (1778–1852) describes both pole and mast climbing in his seminal work of 1816 on gymnastic apparatus and exercises. Climbing Greasy pole Rope climbing "The Book...
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    tries to avenge Germany's World War II defeat. As R. A. Crichton in "The Greasy Pole", a 1981 episode of Yes Minister. As Lord Ridgemere, owner of the stately...
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