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WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 2006 10:00 AM

Lara Croft in the Guinness Book

Submitted by Seanbaby

Edited by WilWheaton

According to Guinness, the organization responsible for counting how many bees people put in their mouths, Tomb Raider's Lara Croft is now a world record holder. She's officially the "Most Successful Human Videogame Heroine."

The Tomb Raider star won the prize for "transcending the boundaries of video games and becoming a recognisable figure in mainstream society".

Other human video game heroines considered for the newly contrived award included Street Fighter's Chun Li, Donkey Kong's Pauline, Dragon's Lair's Daphne, and Resident Evil starlets Jill Valentine and Claire Redfield. A nonhuman version of the same award has been claimed by Ms. Pac-Man.

While this would be fantastic news for the fictional character, it was immediately overshadowed by Sandra Trail, a Little Rock woman who grew the "Female Moustache Most Filled With Soup."

In other World Record news, until this sentence, this post was setting the record for "Longest Mention of Tomb Raider Without Bringing Up Her Tits."

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Comments

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

APR 12, 2006 07:55 PM

PointBlank said:
How the fuck is Mario not a person? Is it because he's Italian?? That would be racist.

Heroine.

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

APR 12, 2006 07:56 PM

and Pauline? SRSLY? What about Peach? She's really come into her own.

[Edited on Apr 12, 2006 by Clov]

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

APR 12, 2006 07:59 PM

*AHEM*

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

APR 12, 2006 08:00 PM

Clov said:
and Pauline? SRSLY? What about Peach? She's really come into her own.

[Edited on Apr 12, 2006 by Clov]

Damn, beat me while I was looking for images!

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

APR 12, 2006 08:02 PM

I'd tap dat.

fiendish

USA

December 2002

APR 12, 2006 08:03 PM

Wannie said:
I really don't think those other heroines even deserve mentioning really. I would not have known their names if asked, and I'm an avid gamer. I'm sure some resident evil fans will complain, but that's a pretty limited audience considering you had to have a psx (for the most part) to be able to play them.

you don't know who Street Fighter's Chun Li is?!?!?