3/29/2004: Record-setting painted ball

Undertoad · 03-29-2004, 11:01 AM

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.

03-29-2004, 11:01 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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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