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Inspired by a famous 50-year-old Life magazine photograph, Saint Mary’s College students attempt to break the campus’ 24 bodies in a phone booth record Wednesday on their Moraga, Calif. campus. The phone booth competition comes 50 years after Life magazine published a now-famous photograph of 22 St. Mary’s students stuffed into a phone booth, a popular college stunt in the 1950s. Current students matched the number in the 1959 image, though they failed to break the campus record of 24 set in 1984. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Contra Costa Times, Karl Mondon)
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Charlie on March 26 at 8:41 a.m.
Call waiting??
Charlie on March 26 at 8:41 a.m.
Alright, who had the beans for lunch??
Cabbage Boy on March 26 at 8:46 a.m.
OK, kilt guy goes on the BOTTOM, alright.
JeanieSpokane on March 26 at 8:55 a.m.
What they didn’t realize was that if they removed all their cell phones, there would have been room for three more people, to break the old record.
keithincda on March 26 at 8:57 a.m.
Does this phone booth make my azz look big?
OfCoffee on March 26 at 9:11 a.m.
The majority of Idaho Democrats gather in their convention hall for their presidential caucus.
nic on March 26 at 10:03 a.m.
Reach out and touch some one.
JohnA on March 26 at 11:28 a.m.
Students gather to give thanks on the anniversary of the date Alexander Graham Siren’s telephone patent was denied.
JohnA on March 26 at 11:31 a.m.
First student: “Hey, is that Sarah’s head jammed against the phone dial?”.
Second student: “I don’t know, her face doesn’t ring a bell”.
poolman on March 26 at 2:58 p.m.
The group came crashing out of the booth when number 23 made a desperate and ill-advised move for the coin return hoping to find some forgotten change. Yet another stark reminder of just how bad the economy is.
Cis on March 26 at 3:39 p.m.
Failure to fill the booth, to break the record, proved once again.. people are larger than they were 20 years ago.
brandxranch on March 26 at 5:09 p.m.
You guys are all so darned funny!!!! I envy the quick wit that I read here every day, and wish I could come up with something half as sharp as what gets posted.
MarkU on March 26 at 8:04 p.m.
After looking at the Republican budget cut proposals, students at U of I rushed to call home for more money, but all that got through was “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW???”
BayviewBob on March 27 at 8:42 a.m.
“So, like, my friend, Josh, asked me if I wanted to try out some mad cramming skills out in a phone booth, and I, like, said that would be totally cool and I, like, don’t even know what a phone booth is, like, you know, but will, like, totally be there”