[Psml] Coconut Orchestra sets World Record

[Uspsd3ronf at aol.com]

According to a story on NPR, today in Trafalgar Square in London a Guinness  
World Record was set, breaking last years, for the most people playing a  
coconut. You Monty Python fans may recall the scene in "Monty Python and the  Holy 
Grail" where the knights without horses came over a hill and into view  
banging coconut shells together to make the sound of horses galloping. This is  
where the idea for setting the record came from and was spurred on by Terry  
Gilliam and other members of the Monty Python group.
What does this have to do with USPS?
Well, first of all, it got your attention - how could something so silly  
make the airwaves?
Now for the tie in to USPS. Awhile ago, the SEO of Sewanhaka Power  Squadron, 
part of D3, came up with an idea - why not try to set the Guinness  Worlds 
Record for the greatest number of people simultaneously putting on a PFD  at a 
particular time during safe boating week. At first I thought "You've got to  be 
kidding"! But the more I thought about it, the better I liked it. Picture it: 
 all USPS members, and maybe even folks on cruise ships and in marinas  and 
Marine stores all putting on a PFD at exactly the same time. Getting  pictures 
from all over the country (and maybe the world) and submitting them and  the 
counts to the Guinness Record Book people.
Goofy maybe, but what a better way to publicize USPS and the wearing of  
PFD's during safe boating week. I don't know if we will have time to organize it  
for this years Safe Boating Week (perhaps we can) but we could  certainly try 
for next year. 
What do you think?
 
PDC Ron Friedmann, AP
D3
 



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