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Bell said he was at an annual political confab known as the Shad Planking, in the piney woods an hour west of Virginia Beach, when a reporter alerted him to the governor’s order.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2016

This time, they also debated the future of the Shad Planking itself.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2016

Planking is an online craze—started in Australia and New Zealand—where people post pictures of themselves laying flat as a board on and .

From Inc • Sep. 2, 2011

Planking, the act of simply lying face down in public places, has become something of an Internet sensation.

From Time • May 28, 2011

Two hundred loads of elm and Scottish fir; Planking from Dantzig.

From Men, Women and Ghosts by Lowell, Amy