Originally Posted by
Uplinker
I've only done a few full peals so far, (up to 3 hours' ringing as you know), but I never would attempt the extreme length ones some crazy folk do; when they require, ahem, assistance with a bottle during ringing !!!
There was a story [I hope not true] that a peal was completed in these parts some 30 years ago with the tenor having mistaken gas for semi-solids. The conductor insisted that the band finished the task in hand. My true story involved number four losing his trousers, to reveal blue shreddies. He always wore braces thereafter.