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Where isn't Waldo? The striped one popped up on Google Earth and at Fashion Week last year, was spotted at Topshop yesterday, and last night at Rutgers University there were 1,052 of him (negating the whole idea of, you know, finding him). The college students and staff broke the Guinness World Record for The World’s Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Waldo, smashing the previous record of 577 held by Acuity Insurance Employees in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The Rutgers group also collected more than 3,000 books to donate to the local New Brunswick School District. Expect to see more of Waldo throughout the year, he's celebrating his 21st birthday and will continue to be sent out to high profile events... so long as he doesn't start running with the wrong crowd.
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Uhm, wow.
I saw a Waldo in the subway once. Dorky, but made me smile on the inside.
I remember when I was young the concept of being in the Guiness Book of Records had some cache and prestige.
Now it means you've done something lame, tedius or idiotic that anyone could do if they could be bothered.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050667/Schoolgirl-smashes-world-record-lets-25-snails-slither-face.html
HURL!
That kind of "lame, tedious, or idiotic" stuff has always been in the Guinness book. Your youthful memories are being selective.
Maybe....I don't know though there used to be this one guy that would balance small cars on his head and stuff. It used to be more like a freak show, now all you have to do is dress as Waldo or find 26 snails.
That kind of "lame, tedious, or idiotic" stuff has always been in the Guinness book. Your youthful memories are being selective.
Gotta love contrarians!
SOMEONE: This and this used to be true.
CONTRARIAN: No,it wasn't! Why? Because me stating it emphatically makes it so!
Of course this "lame, tedious, or idiotic" stuff hasn't always been in Guinness. Guinness was about unusual, amazing, extraordinary, very hard to replicate or beat feats done by remarkable people and definitely seemed to have a much higher standard in terms of what it would include in its record books. There's nothing remarkable about getting a little over 1000 ppl dressed as Waldos or having snails crawling over someone's face.
Looks like a Wes Anderson movie.
Dumb.
NERDS!
Mostly in the front row.
Revenge of the Nerds!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vbOqtVScI
..and yet creepy. Imagine them descending on you in the subway after a few too many.
Imagine them coming up from the PATH station and invading your neighborhood!