Sure, you really need all that great recognition you’d get by winning the big contest at the local 4th of July fireworks show, right?
But the fact is, contests have been much bigger than that. Some have been sponsored by large bubblegum companies and have given some pretty major prizes. There has been some pretty big recognition earned by blowing large bubbles.
Of course this is not a topic for everyone. But if you’re someone who loves to blow big bubblegum bubbles, or one of the millions who have fond memories of doing it then read on. Have we got something for you!
How could you ever get famous blowing bubblegum bubbles?
Some very talented bubble blowers have not only asked the same thing, they’ve figured out how to do it. More importantly, they knew many other people were asking the same thing, and they have provided them the opportunity to do it for themselves.
If you have ever dreamed of gum blowing glory, or if you are reading this and thinking you have bubble blowing talent, your chance has arrived!
See, when it came to achieving fame and glory from blowing huge bubblegum bubbles, there was pretty much only one game in town. That was to claim the Guinness World Record for blowing the largest bubblegum bubble. Just one problem. There was only one spot for that which happened to be occupied for the last 29 years by the greatest bubble blower of all time. In other words, it was just about impossible.
Until quite recently, the bubblegum blowing world could pretty much be summed up like this. Either you were Susan Montgomery Williams (Chews Suzy), the GWRH, or you were Joyce Samuels (The Gum Blowin’ Granny), the GWRH for blowing the largest bubblegum bubble from the nose, or you were the winner of a large bubblegum company contest, which really wasn’t much of an indication that you really were one of the greatest bubble blowers but it did earn you a pretty nice prize. Otherwise you weren’t really too well known at all.
That doesn’t mean there weren’t other extraordinarily talented bubble blowers out there. It means that, even though they were worthy of it, they simply weren’t getting much recognition for what they were doing. And they set out to do something about it.
What happened was a group was formed in protest to a certain rule the some felt restricted access to the Guinness World Record. The rule was that, in order to blow a qualifying GWR bubble, only three pieces of bubblegum could be used. The group had ample personal experience that showed that larger bubbles could be blown when more than three pieces of gum was used. They felt the rule was unnecessarily arbitrary, and began to raise the issue with Ms. Williams.
After a brief dustup, it was acknowledged that both sides had valid points. Ms. Williams had always blown her bubbles under Guinness rules, because that was what it took to claim their record, but it couldn’t be denied that bigger bubbles could be blown using more than three pieces. Soon a truce was reached and from that sprung a new group called the Blowers Of Mega Bubbles, The BOMB Squad. This consisted of Susan Montgomery Williams and Joyce Samuels, and unlimited number of pieces advocates Dr. Enaught T. Wiseham and Earl (The Gum Bubble Coach) Hartwell. The goal of the group was to create the future of bubblegum based on the vision of it’s creator and that which they knew to be correct. That is, the most important thing about bubblegum, actually the reason it was created, was to do one thing. To blow the biggest bubbles possible, the biggest bubbles the world had ever seen.
Of course those wishing to blow the biggest bubble face tremendous competition. Just how tremendous could be summed up through Ms. William’s motto “29 years and still looking for some GUMpetition,” a motto that had to be rewritten every year. As far as her record is concerned, that GUMpetition has never materialized. When you consider Ms. Williams’ unbelievable run, it’s easy to see why just about everyone else was locked out of their share of bubblegum fame and glory. There was only so much to go around and she pretty much had a lock on it. There was only one thing to do, and that was to create more opportunity and ways for people to achieve it without having to break Ms.
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