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Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records

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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:39PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:39PM (#1012164) Journal

    practically a Boomer

    Give it a break. Boomers were the product of returning war veterans fucking anything that didn't run away, or anything that didn't run fast enough. Boomers started in 1945, and pretty much ended in the early '50's. No, 1956 don't really count, and 1960 sure as hell don't count. The hell with any sophistry bullshit you want to throw at the claim.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:49PM (2 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:49PM (#1012168) Homepage
    The U.S. Census Bureau defines baby boomers as those born between mid-1946 and mid-1964
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    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:04PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:04PM (#1012175)

      In 100 years, boomer will have replaced the word old in common usage, and old will be marked by the OED as archaic.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:21PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:21PM (#1012180) Journal

      Well, that settles that. The Census Bureau certainly can't be wrong.