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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Smart aleck kid!!! ;)
I’m on the very bottom.
must not comment
Nice to see college kids doing this instead of protesting and rioting.
You’re getting it all wrong!
They are just practicing how they will have to live when they get out of college and have no job to go to.
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