"I'd like to know who's visited this pole," he said.
Once he hit me with this pole and I had nine stitches.
It's tied to all the tents and propped up on this pole.
It is from this pole to the finish line that the distance of the race is measured as well.
"I was bear-hugging this pole, and a guy said, 'Can you get down from there?' and I just shimmied down," Horton said.
However, this pole position is more apparent than real, since it reflects the grip of the ruling party over parliamentary nominations.
"You want to be on the stiffest pole possible, to the point where you're flirting with, 'Is this pole going to be too big?' " Walker said.
What was unusual was that this pole was covered up to about eight feet in a snugly fitting multi-coloured sock, knitted by some unknown hand.
All of sudden this pole vault contest was showing in houses and bars across Brazil, and had the attention of everybody who could see a TV or hear a radio.
Nor does it coincide with the geomagnetic South Pole, the southern end of the Earth's geomagnetic field (this pole also moves; during the early 1990s it was located about 79°13′ S, 108°44′ E).
"It's like 'do this scene, stand up on those boxes there, on an empty sound stage, put your hand on this pole like you're leaning up on the top of something, walk down these boxes, sit in that chair and say the rest of your dialogue, then the scene will be over'," he says.
