World Record Founders Day

As you know Wieden+Kennedy, the people who pay me to make ads, founded our company on April Fool's day. As is tradition we closed down the office at noon to celebrate 28 years of being in business. This year everyone divided up into teams and tried to set a world record. We got flip cameras to record the records and then posted them to an Internet authentication site to make sure they were real. Unfortunately I spent the entire day at Nike trying to get some work approved, so I missed out on the fun, but it sounds like it was pretty cool.

One group went down to the Taco Bell about half a mile away, and tossed a burrito from person to person all the way back to the office, to set the world's record for longest burrito toss. Another group set the world record for the number of times they could make a mattress salesman to say the word mattress on a call with Mattress World before he got mad and hung up. The day ended with a show from comedian Aziz Ansari who plays Tom Haverford on the NBC show Parks and Recreation and music from a really weird band that undressed down to their underwear as the show went on.

Another Founders Day complete with no deaths.