This is Really News? College Goes for Phone Booth Cramming Record

I wonder what happens if the phone rings once everybody's in.

In continuing a tradition that looks promising in premise but total fail in execution, the folks at St. Mary's College near the SoCal coast tried to break the record for most people inside a phone booth at the same time. I'm too lazy to explain so I'll let the AP take this one:

Twenty-two students at St. Mary's College of California have done something their predecessors famously did 50 years ago: cram into a phone booth. Teams competed to fit as many bodies as possible into a phone booth on the campus green Wednesday, a half-century after Life magazine published a now-famous photograph of 22 St. Mary's students stuffed into a phone booth, a popular college stunt in the 1950s.

Current students matched the number in the 1959 image, though they failed to break the campus record of 24 set in 1984.

St. Mary's officials say a South African team set the world record of 25 set in 1958.

When I say "promising in premise," I mean changing the idea up a bit. For instance, getting nothing but coeds in bikinis and cramming them into a Volkswagen. Or maybe dwarfs in clown suits and cramming them into a coffin. Or neuter-less golden retrievers inside a dog house. Or they could make the stunt interesting with all of them wearing blindfolds and playing "Who's in My Mouth" while they're in there. The possibilities are endless.