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Title: I watched a guinness record attempt! :D
Post by: A Boojum Snark on August 13, 2005, 01:07:31 PM
This one bakery in town did it for their 10th anniversary, 'it' being a record for the most lit candles on a cake :p

One big cake! (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v401/aboojumsnark/before-whole.jpg)
The numerical candles stating there are 25,625 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v401/aboojumsnark/before-numbers.jpg)

Then we got to the fun part and bunch of people lit it, then it kinda spread by itself. :p
Fire! (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v401/aboojumsnark/lit.jpg)

After all was said and done...
The parking lot got waxed. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v401/aboojumsnark/wax.jpg)
and the cake... (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v401/aboojumsnark/after-whole.jpg)
...was rather toasty. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v401/aboojumsnark/after-numbers.jpg)
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Post by: Malevolent on August 13, 2005, 01:20:29 PM
That is pretty cool. That was a huge fire. I wouldn't of wanted the job placing those candles, though.
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Post by: Manta on August 13, 2005, 01:28:19 PM
They probably have some sort of candle gun to lay them down on the cake.
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Post by: A Boojum Snark on August 13, 2005, 01:29:40 PM
Nah, the baker started putting them on 2 days ago, by hand :p
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Post by: LowCrawler on August 14, 2005, 01:12:54 AM
thats pretty cool man
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Post by: Tooky on August 14, 2005, 10:07:21 AM
did you eat it?
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Post by: Bryan on August 14, 2005, 10:28:10 AM
did thay get the record?

Bryan
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Post by: Diablus on August 14, 2005, 09:17:31 PM
it wasnt boring to sit there adn watch them put all the candles in? lol
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Post by: A Boojum Snark on August 14, 2005, 11:09:00 PM
Tooky, no :p they had other cake to eat.

Bryan, it's being sent to guinness, not official yet but they had enough candles.

Diablus, they were already placed ahead of time.
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Post by: Fewlio on August 15, 2005, 03:53:33 AM
I want to eat that.
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Post by: Goldy on August 15, 2005, 09:38:40 AM
I would have thought the candles would need to remain lit independent of eachother.. I mean, the entire cake was just engulfed in flame. That should not count. :p
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Post by: A Boojum Snark on August 15, 2005, 12:39:34 PM
Not really gold, with candles that close that is just what happens. The cake itself wasn't burning.
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Post by: Goldy on August 15, 2005, 10:29:45 PM
Ah, I looked at the pictures again, you are correct. Cool.
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Post by: Kodiac on August 16, 2005, 10:29:59 AM
Damn, that's a lot of candles. . .how did you light them?

we had a birthday party for mary, and we ran out of matches to light the cake, so dad went out to the garage and got the blowtorch. . .I think the last part of the story is rather self explanitory, eh?

I think I might have a picture around here somewhere. . .
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Post by: [JFF]Kirby on August 16, 2005, 11:57:14 AM
if you didnt watch the candles go in then you didnt watch the record attempt.. and it looks like rl boosted hl2s fire sprites...
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Post by: A Boojum Snark on August 16, 2005, 12:47:09 PM
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Damn, that's a lot of candles. . .how did you light them?
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There were about 12 people with those little flamey grill lighter things.

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if you didnt watch the candles go in then you didnt watch the record attempt..
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Lies! The record is for lit candles, not just having them on the cake :p
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Post by: SuicidaL MonkeY on August 16, 2005, 01:26:38 PM
GUINNESS FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Mr.Bill on August 20, 2005, 04:00:13 AM
thats the SECOND most candels ive ever seen on a cake



thats pretty sweet. :-D
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Post by: Goldy on August 20, 2005, 07:22:14 AM
Was the other one a Guiness attempt at world's oldest person, Bill?
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Post by: [JFF]Kirby on August 22, 2005, 02:20:13 PM
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Was the other one a Guiness attempt at world's oldest person, Bill?
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doubt it.. im 30000 and all my family did was give me some stupid wax numbers... worst birthday ever...
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Post by: Goldy on August 22, 2005, 05:03:00 PM
Ah, I didn't know any other immortals were part of LM. You going to the convention this year?