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03-29-2004, 11:01 AM
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Radical Centrist
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3/29/2004: Record-setting painted ball
 Coulda sworn the IotD covered this guy before, but I couldn't find it. Anyway, the guy on the right there has been painting his ball. For a very long time. He started by painting a regulation baseball with a coat of paint in 1977; he found that he enjoyed it so much that he kept on coating it, regularly. And now it has over 18,000 coats of paint. So the guy on the right there - an arborist by trade - is taking a "core sample" of the painted ball, to kinda sorta verify that it IS a baseball with 18,000 coats of paint for the Guinness folks. |
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03-29-2004, 11:32 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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They both look so excited.
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03-29-2004, 12:04 PM
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Hoodoo Guru
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Man, when he threw that baseball in, it looked like a watermelon
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03-29-2004, 02:09 PM
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Romantic Necromancer
Join Date: Mar 2003
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That's probably the only baseball I'd actually be able to hit. Boy I sucked.
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03-29-2004, 05:44 PM
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The future is unwritten
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I guess that wet paint sign was in constant use.
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03-29-2004, 06:00 PM
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Love my Heffalumps
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Why on earth would you bother painting the ball in the first place, I can think of many other ways to get in the Guiness Book of Records.
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03-29-2004, 06:29 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Tampa, FL
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Why on earth would you bother painting the ball in the first place
More importantly, what in the hell is on the wall behind him? Clowns? In his garage? This guy has more mental issues to worry about besides applying a coat of paint to a baseball everyday. |
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03-29-2004, 07:50 PM
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Superior Inhabitant
Join Date: Apr 2003
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What this guy needs is a PS2. Poor guy cant think of anything better to pass the time than paintin a ball. I'd hate to live in his town :p
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03-29-2004, 08:22 PM
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03-29-2004, 09:54 PM
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03-30-2004, 03:23 PM
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UT was close
I found it in the Quality Images...back in 6-14-02
...and I remember when it was posted too....guess I really have been lurking around here _WAY_ too long. http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?threadid=1688 |
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03-30-2004, 04:21 PM
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When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
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You've been lurking since 2002 and this is only your 20th post?!
What...you don't like us? 
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03-30-2004, 04:37 PM
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 I mainly just read... I had thought about trying to become more active...but I just can't get ahold of this whole message board thing. I miss the good old days of BBSes, IRC, and USENET.
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03-30-2004, 05:12 PM
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I can hear my ears
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now lets do the math if we make the assumption that this weinie put one coat on the ball per day, it would take him 49.315 years to do the 18000 coats assuming TWO coats per day, that's 24.66 years worth of painting. 3 a day is 16.44 years. any way you shake it, this guy has too much free time, and not much imagination. ok....edit: I just noticed that he's been at it since 1977....that's 27 years, or 666 coats per year, or 1.82 coats a day, every day. how fucked up is that?
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