At one, in 1915, he was caught in a smash-up between two wagons, breaking his jaw and his leg as well as crushing his chest.
"And the only way to enter is by leaping off that slab of concrete and hoping you don't get smashed between sets of waves".
The audience is spun the illusion that there are spectacular smashes between the contestants, but no one ends up in hospital.
Hendrick's first teacher, the engraver, poet, and philosopher Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, was a relic of an older, learned, relatively tolerant Catholicism about to be smashed between the grindstones of Calvinist iconoclasm and Counter-Reformation image veneration.
First, the very last sentence of the book must seem baffling to the vast majority of readers: "As he fell, Leamas saw a small car smashed between great lorries, and children waving cheerfully through the window".
Or this Republican-looking couple sitting front row smashed between editors and models.
Achilles International founder Dick Traum, who lost one of his legs at 24 when it was smashed between two cars, went on to become the first amputee to finish a marathon when he crossed the line in New York in 1976.
If you're not sure if a woman you care about has had a mammogram lately, why not make a best friend date with her? Tell her that she looks fabulous in tissue paper, and that you actually read somewhere that getting your boobs smashed between two cold metal plates burns extra calories.
Take one of the most strangely affecting pop records ever made, whack a massively distorted kick that sounds like a concrete ping pong ball being smashed between rubberized tectonic plates underneath it, speed everything up to comedy-helium-voice levels and hey presto you've got a song that'll perfectly soundtrack doing speed on a bouncy castle at a friend's daughter's christening.
