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22 college students cram into a phone booth
sfgate ^
| March 25, 2009
Posted on 03/26/2009 9:03:48 AM PDT by JoeProBono
How many college students can you fit into a phone booth? Students at St. Mary's College of California found an answer to this pressing question Wednesday when teams of men and women competed to cram as many bodies as possible into an empty phone booth on the campus green. The phone booth-stuffing competition took place 50 years after Life magazine published a now-famous photograph of 22 St. Mary's students — all men — piled on top of one another in a phone booth, a popular college fad in the late 1950s. Today's students, who prefer cell phones to landlines, matched the number in the 1959 image Wednesday, though they failed to break the campus record of 24 set in 1984, when the college marked the Life photo's 25th anniversary. A South African team set the world record of 25 in 1958, according to St. Mary's spokesman Mike McAlpin.
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TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: phonebooth
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To: JoeProBono
My high school choir managed 17 back in the 70s...
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:05:21 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
("Failed Obama Administration" (TM))
To: JoeProBono
I’m impressed that they were able to find a phone booth.
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:06:13 AM PDT
by
posterchild
(Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
To: JoeProBono
I would NOT try this in San Francisco!
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:06:54 AM PDT
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TurtleUp
(Turtle up: cancel optional spending until 2012, and boycott TARP/stimulus companies forever!)
To: JoeProBono
I thought it only counted if you could close the door.
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:06:58 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: Corin Stormhands
Gotta picture o’ that? :-)
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03/26/2009 9:07:18 AM PDT
by
Wneighbor
To: JoeProBono
Cram this
To: JoeProBono
Ah, youth!
The “What, Me Worry?” days of Spring are here.
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:08:19 AM PDT
by
Palladin
(President Teleprompter hates babies.)
To: Wneighbor
There’s one in the yearbook which is packed away...somewhere.
I’m on the very bottom.
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03/26/2009 9:08:24 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
("Failed Obama Administration" (TM))
To: JoeProBono
To: JoeProBono
OK. So next, we’ll have streaking returning to a campus near you?
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03/26/2009 9:08:56 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: TurtleUp
To: posterchild
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:16:52 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: conivorous
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:18:33 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: posterchild
That’s certainly a telephone booth ‘of size.’
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:22:38 AM PDT
by
posterchild
(Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
To: Palladin
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:23:05 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:25:34 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:25:45 AM PDT
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Sax
To: Sax
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:27:48 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Vigilanteman
OK. So next, we’ll have streaking returning to a campus near you? Rebranded as "Free Range Study"
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