A nightclub in Swansea has smashed the world record for the number of people dressed as Smurfs.
The Oceana nightclub managed to fit in 2,510 people, all dressed as one of the blue cartoon characters.
Although perhaps hard to believe, the record has actually been attempted before, with the previous number being 1,253 Smurfs in the town of Castleblayney in County Monaghan, Ireland.
The rather bizarre record attempt was organised by UK fancy dress costume seller, Jokers’ Masquerade, and was mostly attended by students from the local University.
Rebecca Oatley, of Jokers’ Masquerade, said: “Smurf Guinness World Record holder has become an illustrious title.
“There have been five attempts over the last 18 months, with Swansea trumping Castleblayney’s 1,253 Smurfs recorded last year.
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There has been a lot of coverage of a certain Planet X (also known as Nibiru) in the press lately. The planet apparently passes through our solar system every 3,600 years leaving death and destruction in its wake. Planet X was first spotted by astronomers in the early 1980s and has been tracked by infrared observatories ever since. It is a planet which takes 3,600 years to complete one full rotation of our sun.
If Nibiru enters our solar system, there would be a catastrophic effect on the planet. The poles could shift, extreme natural disasters could increase and the sun might be blotted out by the dust left by the planet for some 40 years, killing most life forms on Earth. Assuming the planet is actually due to enter our solar system in 2012, the last time Niribu was here was 1588 BC.
If we look back 3,600 years into Earth’s history, there are a number of events which could be linked to the passing of Nibiru. An unknown civilisation living in the Indus Valley (West Pakistan) mysteriously vanished at around 1500 BC. A quick look at Encarta tells us that the first dynasty of Babylon ended in 1595 and that the Cycladic settlement on the island of Thera was destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption around 100 years earlier. M.I. Farley, author of Early Greece also noticed a total catastrophe all over Crete in 1400.
The list goes on depending where you look on the internet.
But how much of it is actually true, and just how worried should we be? Is it about time we spent all our savings and partied like it’s 1999 or should we continue as normal? Let’s face it, Planet X isn’t the first time we have been warned of an oncoming apocalypse. December 31, 1999 was the last time we were expecting the world to end with the arrival of the Millennium Bug. Quite how a computer malfunction in dates would end the world, I am not entirely sure, but we survived it and lived to fight another day anyway. 
Nostradamus published a series of prophecies which have also become world famous. Predictions of Napoleon, Hitler and the 9/11 attacks have all been credited to the seer. There have always been predictions of doomsday - it’s merely human nature. Even the Bible, one of the oldest and best selling books of all time predicts the end of days: “From a far away land they came, from the end point of Heaven do the Lord and his weapons of wrath come to destroy the whole Earth.” Isaiah 13:1.
There is a lot of uncertainty in this 2012 myth, but one thing is painfully clear. Do a Google search for the words planet x and 2012 and be prepared for a number of sites warning us that the end is near. The trouble is, most of these sites are made by religious sects trying to convert you to whichever God they champion.
But what of this latest threat?
Answer from Nasa:
Nibiru does not exist. NASA has never discovered or detected Nibiru or anything remotely like it. The handful of dwarf planets that astronomers have discovered beyond Neptune are on stable orbits that will never come into the inner solar system, let alone threaten Earth. Nothing will happen in 2012. Nibiru is simply a fake, a hoax, the result of a small religious cult that is unfortunately scaring lots of people with totally false stories.
“Nibiru is a name in Sumerian, Babylonian astrology associated with the god Marduk, generally accepted as referring to the planet Jupiter.” The rest is a hoax. The job of NASA scientists is to discover and tell the truth!
This Nibiru hoax has been around for a decade, including predictions that Nibiru would pass close to Earth and cause a catastrophe about 5 years ago. (Guess what: it didn’t happen!).
It saddens me that people would be taken in by such nonsense. David Morrison
NAI Senior Scientist
72million sold!
