It's not enough, apparently, to have one world record.

Halo, no.

It's not enough to be able to say that North Dakota established, in 2002, the first Guinness World Records' record for making the most snow angels simultaneously with 1,791 angels, then lost the record in 2006 to a bunch of college students and co-horts in Michigan totaling 3,784, and then roared back and grabbed back the record in Bismarck Feb. 17 with an avalanche of 8,962 angels.

Marilyn Snyder, the snow-angel organizer, wants another challenge, more snow glory for the state, more stories in the national media, and thinks many people will agree with her about this next attempt that will happen Dec. 26.

Snyder, curator of education for the Historical Society of North Dakota, got the OK from Guinness about a month ago to attempt a new world record.

So in this state of waving grains and grasses, and hello waves, and an occasional wave of nausea, ad nauseum, there now will be another wave - of world record proportions.

The longest snow wave.

Since there's never been such a record, Snyder technically would only need two people to participate, but of course she wants many more so that the pesky Michigan Technological University people and other world-record interlopers won't have an easy time of it if they want to take this one away.

Snyder got the idea at the snow-angel event when she saw people, just for the fun of it, start a snow wave.

"It's really pretty,"she said.

It's kind of like what happens at a sports event, only white stuff is involved.

One person grabs two handfuls of snow, throws it high in an arch toward the person behind, and then the next person heaves-ho snow, then the next. Snyder plans for the snow wavers to set up in a spiral pattern on the Capitol Grounds with the snow throwing starting at the epicenter and continuing out. Kind of like dominos falling.

Robert Niffenegger, who helped organize MTU's successful 2006 effort to wrest away, temporarily, North Dakota's snow angel record - glory that lasted about a year until North Dakota grabbed it back - didn't know what a snow wave was, until recently.

And when he found out, he expressed himself in no certain terms.

"That's interesting,"he said in a Friday interview, in a tone that indicated disinterest.

The chuckling Niffenegger said he thinks North Dakota is now making things up. He considers some world records to be legitimate, like who can run the fastest, who can jump the farthest, or like the two left that his university still holds after giving up the snow angel back to North Dakota.

MTUstill holds Guinness' largest snowball fight record "that's the one I'm most proud of" and the largest snowball, he said.

But he said there are other world records that aren't legitimate, like how many bananas you can split, or like the longest snow wave, he said.

Snyder understands.

"He just doesn't like uniqueness,"Snyder said about Niffenegger.

Snyder also doesn't understand why he would be so proud of a snowball fight, which ends up with nothing concrete except maybe a black eye - unlike the making of snow angels which results in the making of snow angels.

But Snyder is very well aware that she has to be on her toes when it comes to MTU. While Snyder prepares for a snow wave attempt, she's keeping her eye on MTU communications.

"I've been spying on the student newspaper,"she said.

A while ago, she learned Michigan State University has offered its services and student bodies to join with MTU in an attempt to swell the numbers enough so Michigan can get back the snow angel record.

Niffenegger told the Tribune on Friday he isn't involved in any effort, nor is he aware of any particular effort underway.

It's not known if Niffenegger, who will be a senior this year, was having a senior moment, and just didn't know what the truth really was, or if he really has turned his attention to more attainable goals.

North Dakota's planned snow wave record attempt will take place at 1 p.m. Dec. 26 on the Capitol Mall during a public party celebrating the state's successful Feb. 17 attempt to get back the snow angel record.

In the event of no-snow, it's a no-go, as Guinness didn't give permission for attempting the the longest brown-grass wave.

Anyone who has any snow-throwing abilities whatsoever, beginning to advanced, is welcome to participate.

For more information, call Snyder at 328-2792.

(Reach reporter Virginia Grantier at 250-8254 or at virginia.grantier@;bismarcktribune.com.)