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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @03:01PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @03:01PM (#1011986)

    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.

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  • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Wednesday June 24 2020, @04:17PM (1 child)

    by Sulla (5173) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @04:17PM (#1012032) Journal

    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.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @07:12PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @07:12PM (#1012104)

      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

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:28PM (#1012161) Homepage Journal

    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 . . .

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