Friday, February 13, 2009

Chewsy Suzy, The Greatest, Dies


Nothing ever goes totally smoothly, and the BOMB Squad is no exception.

On Oct. 1, 2008, the bubblegum world was stunned when the great Susan Montgomery Williams died from a brain anuerism.

After a then 29 year reign as the Guinness World Record Holder for blowing the largest bubble, Chewsy Suzy was on the verge of one of her greatest bubblegum accomplishments. Having wanted to be able to provide the bubblegum world with a way to experience some of the glory she had accomplished, she had co-created The BOMB Squad and The BUBBLEGUM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, and now, as the time had just about come to name the first BWC world champion, the bubblegum world had just experienced one of it's greatest tragedies.

This could have been a catastrophic loss for the bubblegum world, one which may have prevented The BOMB Squad and BWC from ever happening, fortunately we were far enough along in the process that we were able to keep it going.

While the loss of this greatest of all bubble blowers has been deeply troubling and has made continuing extremely difficult, her success, talent, know-how, can-do and stick-to-it attitude and her extreme winning personality are inspirations we can all learn from, and can drive us to answer the call of the dreams we dare to dream.

As she told Johnny Carson on his show "I was born to chew bubblegum. My name even has gum in it. Susan Mont"GUM"ery Williams" lived her life dedicated to the cause, and it ended at one of bubblegum's greatest moments, a moment she had played a huge role in creating. And no one had ever been anywhere near as successful at it before.

I've said it before and I'll say it again and again. If everyone who had ever lived could chose to have as much success in their field of endeavor as Suzy had achieved in bubble blowing I'm positive there are extremely few who would turn down the offer.

And that's a really big thing to say.

Rest in peace, Chewsy Suzy. You're simply the greatest!

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