Friday, February 13, 2009

Project One. The BUBBLEGUM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP!


We looked at the situation and we wondered what was going on in the bubblegum world.

We speculated that there may have been some in bubblegum that may have read some of the things we had put out and thought that we had a real point. With bubblegum sales apparently not doing so well, if not floundering, might there have been some who said "Yeah. You know, that BOMB Squad. Trying to take bubblegum back to the big bubble. Maybe they have something there."

Well of course we have something there. The same thing the inventor of bubblegum had. The same thing that made bubblegum what it is.

Could it be that some in the bubblegum world were preparing a move in that direction?

The thought of this possibility along with another upcoming event kicked what we were doing into overdrive. The 80th birthday of bubblegum.

It was well known fact that bubblegum had been created in 1928. What wasn't so well known was the date. As best as we could pin it down was in "early August." That was according to an eight page article about bubblegum in a 1990 edition of Smithsonian Magazine, an article which included two large pictures, one of Walter Diemer and right next to that one of Chewsy Suzy blowing a giant bubble. If there were ever a two-picture history of bubblegum that would have to be it.

Regardless of what the bubblegum manufacturing world may have thought of this event, we wanted to celebrate it and celebrate it big. As far as we were concerned, Walter Diemer had it right. To him it was apparently all about the big bubble just like it is to us. So we set our sights on early August 2008, or 8-8-08, a good luck date, the date of the beginning of the Olympics, and as far as we knew this would be it. 8-8-08, Bubblegum's 80th birthday.

So how would we choose to celebrate?

Of course by doing the greatest thing ever to happen to since it's creation because hey. We're The BOMB Squad! To bring back bubble blowing GUMpetition in a way that had never been seen before. A way created by the greatest bubble blowers and FOR bubble blowers (as opposed to a way created by manufacturers to promote their product. Believe me. There is a vast difference). A way that was open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. A way that would be available to everyone over a certain age and all over the world, if they had a way onto the internet. A way that would allow them to chew any kind of bubblegum they wanted, and any amount of it.

We created The BUBBLEGUM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, bubblegum's greatest contest ever. We launched it with BOMBlast 4 on 8-8-08, to celebrate bubblegum's 80th birthday. We are at the same time both very proud, but also very sad, that as of this writing The BOMB Squad is the only source of any mention we could find on the internet of Bubblegum's 80th birthday, much less doing anything to actually celebrate or commemorate the day. If anything else has been done, we have yet to hear about it.

Anyway, The BUBBLEGUM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP is now reality, and is the greatest bubblegum bubble contest ever, created by the greatest bubblegum blowers ever, and has had the 10 biggest bubbles ever blown in a non-Guinness World Record Contest ever, that we know of. It is available everywhere the internet goes, and is brought to you direct from BUBBLEGUM HEAVEN.

It is YOUR chance to experience bubblegum fame and glory. YOUR chance to build a bubblegum legend. It is YOUR chance to experience the greatest sports thrill possible. To raise your finger to the sky and proclaim "I'm #1"

The BWC is all about the biggest of the big bubbles. Do it and YOU are there, baby!

So happy birthday, bubblegum. Thanks for 80 great years. And here's to a BOMBlastic future!

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