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Here at Penn State every year an event called Thon is held..its a 48 (46 this year) hour dance marathon to raise money for families dealing with childhood cancer. Its the biggest student-run charitable event in the country, and broke its own record this year, previously set last year. They made $5,240,385.17 this year, outdoing last year's total by more than a million dollars.

Anyways..it was a really fun time (No, I wasn't there the whole time, only a couple hours lol). It was pretty packed the whole time, and the building holds around 13,000 people, so that was pretty neat. Monty (Experiment) and I were there attempting to dance. I say attempting because I am not the most coordinated person in the world. Anyone else have any other cool stories like this from around where they live?

Anyways, here's a link to read about it and some youtube things which are pretty cool:

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/20 ... ews-19.asp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mCZ5l31bp0 (monty and I participated in this dance a few times..though I honestly had no clue what I was doing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCXFw7XwEfk (this is our mascot doing the evolution of dance..though its only like the last 2 minutes of it)

Edit - Changed the 2nd link to the one Monty gave in his reply.

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Ow Frankie, where did you find that recording of the Line Dance? No offense to the person who's doing the singing this time, but they've got a horrible bad throat, they'd have been better off not dubbing this. Just so you all know, it sounded a lot better in person. I've got a cool picture of a bunch of the people in our club (I'm the one on the ground on the right, wearing the blue and gray), and our THON child, Will (he's the one who doesn't look like he's in college):

http://photos-629.ak.facebook.com/ip002 ... 9_2108.jpg

He was so funny, somebody had given him a squirt gun and he kept spraying all of us. And I don't know about your dancing abilities, but I was doing just fine. :-P Okay, and by fine, I mean I still didn't get all of the line dance by the fourth or so time through it but the stuff I did know I did with spirit! FOR THE KIDS!

EDIT: Found a pretty good video of the line dance here, and it has lyrics too.

DOUBLE EDIT: Okay, so I missed Frankie in the picture, he's in the back there, a few people behind me, peeking out behind some people's heads.

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