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Utica Attempting Groucho Record

June 25th, 2008 @ 10:47 am by zymetric

If you happen to be in Utica, NY on Sunday, July 13th then why not participate in a Guinness world record attempt. Organizers hope to hand out 7,000 pairs of glasses to participants running in their annual boilermaker race. This is far more glasses than the last few attempts (and the official record), […]

Breaking: Hillsboro Wins Coveted Groucho Title

May 27th, 2008 @ 11:09 am by zymetric

Its official. Hillsboro, Oregon has fin-a-lly been recognized by the World Guinness Records for ‘the most people simultaneously wearing groucho glasses’. Way to go guys (psst.. you never sent any pics). There event was held last summer, August 4th to be exact, and they won 3,459 people participating.
Speaking of groucho glasses, our […]

Pullet-zer Prize Winning Chickens

April 9th, 2008 @ 10:42 am by zymetric

People do all sorts of creative and fun things with products they buy from us. But this is a first. A teacher recently bought a small flock of our economy chickens and, with the aid of a little spray paint, turned them all into trophies.
I will be giving these out as awards after […]

Ides of March Party

March 13th, 2008 @ 2:39 pm by zymetric

One of our customers bought a whole bunch of disappearing knives a few weeks back for an ‘ides of march’ party they are having this weekend. We think that is so frigggin cool. The ides (15th) of March is of course when Julius Caesar was infamously murdered.

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Brave fans hit it out of the park

November 28th, 2007 @ 12:44 pm by zymetric

 
It’s official. The Richmond Braves, a AAA minor team for the Atlanta Braves, have successfully entered the Guinness World Records, thus unseating Gorham Maine, for the most amount of people simultaneously wearing groucho glasses at the same time (2,513). See our previous groucho entries. The fact that we are only about an […]

Customer Love

October 26th, 2007 @ 12:05 pm by zymetric

One of the most interesting/ rewarding things for all of us who work here is actually seeing all the ways our different products touch people (and dogs).
Recently a customer sent in some pics to us from a beach themed, ACS Relay for Life they held in Ocean City, MD last month. Jack & his […]

Its a Groucho World

August 4th, 2006 @ 1:01 pm by zymetric

The small town of Gorham, Maine took a stab at the official groucho guinness world record this past Sunday, and so far (until it is verified that is), appear to have unoficially taken the title with 1,438 participants simultaneously wearing a pair of groucho marx glasses.  But as we have seen in the past, to […]

$100 winner for June

July 18th, 2006 @ 3:56 pm by zymetric

We got alot of interesting photo submissions this month, so this seems to be off to a good start. The $100 winner for the month of June goes to Blake & friends. That should be more than enough to buy a few beverages. We are also sending a new beer football helmet […]

Zymetrical Photos

June 28th, 2006 @ 11:51 am by zymetric

We have been playing around with the idea of creating a simple image gallery of some sorts for quite some time — where customers can effortlessly submit silly pictures of themselves and our products and in turn be seen by friends (and the thousands of strangers who visit zymetrical.com every week), and where prospective buyers […]

Groucho Season Starting up

May 17th, 2006 @ 3:39 pm by zymetric

The groucho guinness season is starting back up once again, just as it does every year when the weather starts to warm. Unfortunately the Relay for Life that Jon Jack of Martinsburg WV had planned did not turn out quite as they expected; they were short by over 1,000 participants, and thus the […]