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posted by martyb on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the is-pluto-a-planet-or-not? dept.

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @03:40PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @03:40PM (#1012009)

    Citation needed, a noose has a very different knot than what you'd use for something like that. A noose is intended to slide easily, making it inherently unsuitable for applications like this. I'm not aware of any pictures of the actual rope being posted online, so you're being purely speculative here. Given the timing and the number of people involved in NASCAR, it wouldn't be surprising if one of them was racist enough and stupid enough to put an actual noose in the one Black driver's garage.

    This is an individual that's racing professionally, I'd wager that he's seen loops used for closing doors before, also a noose is rather easy to identify with all the wrapping around the central rope.

    Judge for yourself. Here is a pic [twitter.com] of the rope in question.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:35PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:35PM (#1012162) Journal

    The photo isn't clear enough for my satisfaction. It doesn't appear to have 13 wraps. A hangman's noose is very distinctive. Does that knot even slide? No non-sliding knot can be called a "noose". In the two pics, the rope appears to be the exact same length, so that "noose" probably won't slide if a burly 200 pound man jerks on it for all he's worth.