Friday, April 14, 2006

But we've got the biggest balls of them all

Step right up, ladies and gents! Don't be shy! Come see the World's Largest Ball of

Popcorn
Rubber Bands
Twine
Barbed Wire

and my favorite, The World's Largest Ball of Paint.

For the past 29 years, Michael Carmichael has been putting coats of paint on a baseball. He's almost at 19,000 coats, and the sucker weighs close to 1,400 lbs.

A couple of filmmakers have made a documentary called Roadside Ambition on the legendary paintball which resides in tiny Alexandria, Indiana. Carmichael hopes to pull in enough tourists to help the economically struggling town.

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