Claim ID: 247279
Membership Number: 218277
Dear Mrs Johnson,
Thank you for sending us the details of your recent record attempt for 'Longest-running blog'. We are afraid to say that we are unable to accept this as a Guinness World Record.
We receive over 60,000 enquiries a year from which only a small proportion are approved by our experienced researchers to establish new categories. These are not 'made up' to suit an individual proposal, but rather 'evolve' as a result of international competition in a field, which naturally accommodates superlatives of the sort that we are interested in. We think you will appreciate that we are bound to favour those that reflect the greatest interest.
Guinness World Records has absolute discretion as to which Guinness World Record applications are accepted and our decision is final. Guinness World Records may at its discretion and for whatever reason identify some records as either no longer monitored by Guinness World Records or no longer viable.
As your record application has not been accepted, Guinness World Records is in no way associated with the activity relating to your record proposal and we in no way endorse this activity. If you choose to proceed with this activity then this is will be of your own volition and at your own risk.
Once again thank you for your interest in Guinness World Records.
Yours sincerely,
Lucia Sinigagliesi
Records Management Team
They'll put in records for the time it took for a person to eat a bicycle but longest blogging doesn't count? Well I'll not be buying their latest copy (my copy on my shelf from 1989 will do just fine). You're a record winner in my book. :O)
Randall
tell you what- i will make you a write in for any copy that I happen to put my hands on going forward. You totally deserved a win in my book!
You two are too sweet. Thanks! It was an honor just being nominated (even if I *did* nominate myself).
I've actually known for a while but decided to sit on the news so I could work it in to the final exam for my Writing for the Media class! For the “press conference” I wore a shirt that proclaims, “I'm HUGE on the Internet”. Good times.
That is, like, the second nicest rejection letter I've ever read. I've gotta hold the record for most blogs maintained since 2006 by one or more people.
Second nicest? What was the first?
Oh, I've gotten a few in my day…