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| Groucho Record Beat, Again,
and Again ::
June 26th 2005
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Relay for Life and the Merchant Association of Pottstown, Pennsylvania
joined forces to raise money and awareness for the American Cancer
Society, by taking a crack at the groucho guinness world record.
Despite unfavorable weather conditions, organizers convinced 1,157 people
to slap on a goofy pair of glasses for this good cause. Not ready to
throw their glasses in the bag just yet, participants from the event on
April 30th, gathered again on June 4th & 5th for a relay walk with
their glasses and raised over $542,000 in the process, as quoted by
Gary Hall, Co-Chair of the event. Although we have sold large
quantities of these glasses to over a dozen organizations in the last 12
months alone, the official guinness record was still a mere 937
participants at the time of this event. | | | |
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Pottstown
Mercury Write-up on event
Unfortunately for Pottstown PA, the glory of
achieving this groucho record was short lived. Just 5 weeks later on June 7th, 2005, the South
Carolina Pelicans minor league baseball team hit a home run, when 1,827
fans simultaneously wore a pair of our groucho glasses for 15 minutes.
The Pelicans groucho record too, would be
short lived. This past Friday, June 24th 2005, the Norwich
Navigators baseball team, a Double A affiliate of the San Francisco
Giants, surpassed the previous attempt from two weeks ago, when 2,748 fans
participated in their groucho event -- beating their predecessor by nearly
1,000 people! In other news, the Norwich Navigators beat the
Portland Sea Dogs 3-2. Photos will be posted when available.
Pelicans
Fans Break World Record attempt
Press
Release detailing Navigators event
We have a number of large groucho events
currently in the works, so this should be an interesting summer...
Galt Musuem
planning groucho event at Alberta AirShow
On a lighter note, we will soon be breaking
wind with the Bowie Baysox again, a baseball team from Maryland, and are
thrilled at the chance to take another
crack at the Guiness record for people simultaneously sitting on
whoopee cushions. Yes, there is an official record for people
sitting on whoopee cushions! This is their third attempt at hosting
whoopee cushion night, and by all measures, the first 2 attempts have been
extremely successful, resulting in 2,557
farting fans, and 3,200 entering the books. General Manager Mike
Munter was quoted as saying, "This is what the Baysox and minor league baseball are all
about." "I think our fans really had aghast and enjoyed the opportunity to be a part of history.”
We have provided more whoopee cushions than both other attempts, so this
event promises to be much louder.
Update: We now have pictures of this wind breaking
record on the zymetrical
blog.
Posted by Brian at 1:32pm
| Groucho Record Beat, Again ::
May 4th 2004
| Although it has not been officially announced yet, the town of
Warren, Pennsylvania will soon break into the Guinness Book of
World Records, for having the most amount of people simultaneously
wearing Groucho Glasses at once. The previous record was
held by a high school in East Lasing, Michigan, with a count of
937 participants. (See
old record) Zymetrical is proud to have
provided the groucho glasses for the event in Warren.
As reported by the WarrenTimesObserver,
approximately 1,300 people donned a pair of our Glasses on April 30th,
2004, to raise money for the town -- shattering the previous
record.
Warren
PA Network, on Groucho Event
Warren
County Advantage
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Phish
Eyes ::
August 14 2003
| | On August 1-3, 2003, the world renowned band Phish,
used several thousand of Zymetrical's Groucho Glasses, as a part of
their "IT
Festival". Zymetrical was not allowed to perform with the band,
but was in charge of supplying all of the glasses. |
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| The rock group took over an abandoned Air Force Base in Limestone,
Maine for the three day event, and managed to pack it with
nearly 70,000 eager fans. (Click on the
pictures for a larger view.)
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