Monday, February 9, 2009

Suzy And Bobby Make Their Move On The Bubblegum World!


It had just gotten too darn depressing.

To see bubblegum be what it it was, and then what it became.

Bubblegum bubble blowing had seemingly been on a downswing for a long time. It picked up at the beginning of the new milleneum with a big contest put on by a major bubblegum company. That lasted for a few years and then it was over. It was picked up with another company with a contest for another year which, to those who blew big bubbles, was unexciting to say the least.

At least that was the extent big bubblegum companies seemed to take the idea of big bubbles.

It seemed the whole bubblegum blowing world cried out for someone to pick up the now forgotten ball and run with it for a big TD. Well, who could ever do that better than the world's greatest bubble blower?

It was at that point that Chewsy Suzy and I got together to do something about this bleak scene.
Suzy had broken her first Guinness World Record in 1979 and in the last many years of her now 29 year reign had developed the motto "29 years and still looking for som GUMpetition!" It was a motto that had to be upgraded every year, as the sheer weight of her greatness had put her so far ahead of the millions of other competitors that had ever thought of challenging her. She became the greatest. She obviously knew how to get it done.

So we embarked on our journey. After a number of long discussions it all came down to this.

Bubblegum was made to blow big bubbles. And whenever bubble blowers get together, it always comes down to who can blow the biggest bubble. From the first contest ever held at Walter Diemer's house, all the way down to two guys rumbling in the parking lot, and then all the way back up to the biggest, grandest bubble blowing contest of them all (which is NOW AVAILABLE), it all came down to competition. "GUMpetition," a word Suzy invented long ago. For sure, everybody looked up to her for what she had done, and everyone wanted to do what she did. Break that record. Break HER record.

If the glory days of bubblegum were ever to be restored, competition was the only way. If there was ever one thing she learned from her trips to different parts of the world, it was that people wanted to experience some (if not all) of the fame and glory that Susan Montgomery Williams achieved. People wanted to know what it felt like to stand out from all the rest. To be a winner. To be the best at something. And to get get the perks that come with it.

THAT's what makes sports great, and that's what makes bubblegum great. If anyone besides Walter Diemer knew that, it would be Chewsy Suzy.

So we set out on our road to create bubblegum's future. To create a way for bubble blowers the world over to experience the sweet taste of bubblegum success that Suzy experienced all those years. To give them a piece of the action.

And, of course, to emphasize that BIG bubble.

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