Very Important World Record Broken
May 15, 2009 at 01:04 pm by Evil Beet

No, don’t worry. Nobody won more than eight Olympic golds during one Olympics. That honor still belongs to Michael Phelps and his size 14 penis.

Rather, students at William & Mary College have broken the record for the most people to dance to the singer’s “Thriller” simultaneously in one place. The 242-person routine was organized by longtime Jackson fan Kevin Dua, who was notified Friday by Guinness World Records of the accomplishment. The previous record was 147 people in an event held last summer at a British secondary school.

Dua, 21, spent the better part of the school year orchestrating the event, which was held April 19. “I’ve been a Michael Jackson fan since I was 5 years old. It was something I grew up around,” Dua said Friday in an interview.

Well. Now I know what I’m doing with my summer. I’m going to need 243 people, a boom box, and a whole lot of beer. Who’s in?

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17 Responses to “Very Important World Record Broken”

  1. Sarahchorz says:
    May 15, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Count me in!!! For SURE. I’ll start practicing tonight.

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  2. rachel says:
    May 15, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    what about the time they did this dance in some kind of prison?

    or did i dream that?

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  3. Canary says:
    May 15, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    hmmm yeah…try 1500:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o

    where was guiness on that one? or maybe they meant record number of white people dancing to thriller?? j/k

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  4. lisa says:
    May 15, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    I guess he had to do something while he was in college considering there won’t be any jobs when he graduates.

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  5. BEEBOP says:
    May 15, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    WICKED AWESOME

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  6. YoMomma says:
    May 15, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    No body, I mean NOBODY, does it as good as the Puerto Rican Inmates. They have so much more time to practice and a lot more rhythm than these white students. (no insult intended)

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  7. Tony Moshenelli says:
    May 15, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    “Beer and a boombox” I’m in.

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  8. Lizbeth says:
    May 15, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    when I read this and saw the video, I couldn’t help but think that the prisoner video should win this record. This is NOTHING compared to that!

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  9. kt says:
    May 15, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    lmao I’m in!

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  10. thatLisa says:
    May 15, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    so could you do like any song and get a world record? Like, could I gather up ten people and dance to some obscure ass song to make it in?

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  11. Donkey Punch says:
    May 15, 2009 at 11:03 pm

    Hey, you can’t count some of those fat ass women as 10 people. They still only are 1 person even though they eat for 10.

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    • thatLisa says:
      May 15, 2009 at 11:26 pm

      yeah, no. I meant the record was won for most people dancing to Thriller. So I am assuming you could get records for doing a similar stunt, and as long as you chose a song that no one had done previously, technically you would have the title.

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      • Donkey Punch says:
        May 16, 2009 at 4:44 pm

        Believe it or not I wasn’t replying to your comment. I didn’t even read yours until I posted. It was just a coincidence I mentioned 10 people.

        Sorry for confusion.

      • thatLisa says:
        May 17, 2009 at 4:38 am

        whoa that’s pretty creepy. Gotcha tho :)

  12. Josh says:
    May 16, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Weak sauce! Give the weirdo prisoner’s the title they’ve earned! This is an outrage.

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