FASTEST SQUARE IN THE WORLD -- Members of the Mach 2 Square Dance Club danced at twice the speed of sound, aboard the Super-Sonic jetliner "Concorde". They danced with hands UP. Way up HIGH.
SMALLEST SQUARE DANCE HALL -- Was built for the movie "Honey I Shrunk the Square Dancers". The hall could hold six squares of itsy-bitsy dancers. If you're a normal-sized dancer, the hall could hold one or at most two of your toes.
LONGEST CONTINUOUS SQUARE DANCE -- Joey Duhamel called in West Monroe, Louisiana, continuously for 30 hours and 1 minute from 8pm, September 22, 1995 to 2:01am, September 24, 1995. He took only a 5-minute break each hour. This item is completely true and is NOT bogus, which means it's much different from all the other items in this post. :-)
SHORTEST AMOUNT OF TIME BETWEEN WHEN A CALL WAS GIVEN AND WHEN A DANCER STARTED HELPING OTHERS IN THE SQUARE -- Dancer Trafik Kopp holds this record with an incredible time of 3 milliseconds (.003 seconds). Incidently, Mr. Kopp's square broke down shortly after he set the record, because he left his OWN square to go direct a DIFFERENT square.
FIRST KNOWN SQUARE DANCE - This one is real and is NOT made up. You can read about it in ANY newspaper. Archeologists recently unearthed a Stone-Age CLUB. Now really, how many kinds of CLUBS can there BE? What ELSE could this news item be ABOUT, except a SQUARE DANCE club? At the same site, we can only guess that they also dug up other square dance evidence: little stone flyers, little stone petticoats, and little stone E-mails.
LONGEST STRING OF LETTERS MEANING "YOU CAN'T DANCE THIS" -- Some clubs are APD, some offer Extended Applications, some specialize in Advanced & Challenge, some are strictly DBD, and some do Workshop tips all night long. But none can hold a candle to the world-famous "APD EA A&C DBD WS" club.
MOST DIFFERENT STATES CALLED IN BY A NATIONAL CALLER -- There's a multi-way tie for this honor. Several callers have called in all FIFTY states. Wouldn't it be MUCH more impressive if they had called in all 50 states *TWICE*? It would mean that clubs RE-booked 'em. :-)
HIGHEST LEVEL EVER CALLED -- C-Five
HIGHEST LEVEL EVER DANCED -- C-Four-and-a-Half
SMALLEST SQUARE DANCE CLUB EVER -- "APD EA A&C DBD WS"
MOST PROLIFIC AUTHOR OF CALLS -- "Traditional"
GREATEST NUMBER OF POINTS EVER ACCUMULATED IN A SQUARE DANCE COMPETITION -- zero
GREATEST DISTANCE EVER FROM A CALLER TO A DANCER -- Let's FORGET about this silly post! Let's do something ELSE. In a little while, I want you to TURN AROUND and face the OPPOSITE direction from what you're now facing. Don't ask WHY; just DO it. What harm can possibly come from just TURNING AROUND IN PLACE? It'll be FUN! It's a GREAT idea! On the count of three, just DO it, and you'll be glad you did. Are you ready? One, two, three ... U-Turn Back, NOW!!
Let's see, where WERE we? Oh yes, Greatest Distance Ever, From a Caller to a Dancer. To get the answer, look at a map and figure out how far YOU are from Shreveport LA. :-)
Nasser "thanks for helping to set a new world record :-)"
Shukayr