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Guinness reverses decision to strip Billy Mitchell's Pac-Man and Donkey Kong records:
Guinness World Records has reversed a 2018 decision to strip notorious arcade game figure Billy Mitchell's Pac-Man and Donkey Kong records. Mitchell, who was at the center of revered documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, says it's "a long time coming."
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Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records
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The hardware's, of course.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday June 24 2020, @02:21PM (5 children)
You could, like, google for yourself too...
Here's the top link that I got: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nascar/news/bubba-wallace-noose-garage-fbi-nascar-hate-crime/14b1apmtuk00f1ohtkixnq8grh [sportingnews.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @02:51PM
I could, but that's not my responsibility. I have no way of knowing which particular source the poster was referring to.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @03:01PM (3 children)
Wow, why would someone tie a knot like that instead of the simpler and much better bowline?
Personally, I used a monkey's fist so I didn't have to worry about kids getting stuck in a loop.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Wednesday June 24 2020, @04:17PM (1 child)
Because why not?
https://www.netknots.com/rope_knots/loop-knots [netknots.com]
There are all sorts of types of knots it could have been based on the grainy pictures we have seen. Link has examples.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @07:12PM
Yep, that was more or less my conclusion, the picture could show a noose, but it could also show a fair number of other loop knots as well, not to mention the possibility of it being some sort of spliced loop.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:28PM
I don't tie a monkey's fist - just a double square knot at the end of the rope. Like yourself, I worry that someone or something might get caught in a loop, that I don't want to be caught in the loop. Any sort of a loop in a non-stationary line says "snare" to me. Oh - the monkey's fist. I seriously don't remember how to tie it. Maybe I'll look it up, and try to remember . . .