The Interpreter Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 317 Colorful Carolinians Set Egg-cellent Guinness World Record at Carowinds Theme Park Hundreds of Kids Celebrate Easter by Breaking Record for "Most People Dyeing Eggs" Guinness World Records April 23, 2011 5:13pm EDT 317 guests at the Carowinds Theme Park in North Carolina celebrated Easter Weekend by setting a new Guinness World Record for the 'Most People Dyeing Eggs'. The record attempt kicks off a summer-long partnership between Guinness World Records® Live!, a dynamic new business which brings record breaking directly to the public, and Cedar Fair Entertainment, known for its world class amusement thrills and annual Easter Egg-stravaganzas. The "colorful" family-friendly experience took place at the Plaza II Picnic Pavilion within the park, where festive Carolinian kids of all ages dipped and dyed eggs with determination to make their mark in the record books. While the egg-dyeing category is a brand new record category for Guinness World Records, officials set the minimum requirement at 250 participants.... http://www.centredai...ns-set-egg.htmlNote: I seldom comment on stuff like this, but the word cornball seems woefully inadequate here...The entire press release deserves to be read just to see how preposterous this entire thing is. Puffery, I say. Puffery on the first order. P.T. Barnum would be proud. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill_Biscuit Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 [mimmicking Jeff Goldblum] Um, okay, so there's a record for an activity that about 60 Million people do every year at about the same time? Hmmm. Interesting. We really are in a slow news year, aren't we? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterGeek101 Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Hu, thats weird. Easter eggs at Carowinds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 And then, in 2015, the park got a real Easter Egg. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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