The World's Largest Balls

[John Green]

In which John discusses the world's largest balls--of stamps, of paint, of twine, and more. Such roadside attractions were once important in Paper Towns. Now I get to use them for this at least.

[Breezie Mariezie]

I find it entertaining that i thought of Paper Towns and Ben even before you mentioned it.... actually I thought of it at simply the title.

[Miriam]

Here's some Peep Art!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2008/03/21/GA2008032101983.html

[Mattie Grace]

Also, there is a ball of bras that a guy created to support breast cancer research.

[Mattie Grace]

The world's largest saran wrap ball is called a wranny. This is part of one of my research questions for my research writing class. Hehehee.

[Dennis Lysenko]

OMG!!!!! THIS IS SO HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kirsten]

I have also made the long trek to Darwin, MN to pay homage to the ball of twine there. We had a little chat with the lady at the museum there, and she made a comment about how the guy who did it was only able to do it because he wasn't married as a wife would not put up with that. Another point of interest- that's not his most interesting achievement. He made a giant set of functioning wooden tweezers out of progressively smaller sets of functioning wooden tweezers all nested together into a big wooden tweezer puzzle. (I think they were tweezers. They might have been clippers or pliers or something.)

[Elijah Moore]

One of my friends told me that they tried to drop a humongous rubber band ball from an airplane, and when it hit the ground it didn't bounce. It exploded, and rubber bands went everywhere. It left a crater. I wished I could have seen that.

[diana]

i saw the ball of twine in MN
yay

[Jessie]

Woot! I live in te same state as a big ball! Of twine.

[Hana]

I'm on the page in Paper Towns where Q finds the books Margo left at the minimall and it talks about the ball of stamps in Omaha. wooo! haha XD