Record Breakers

Post by **faceless** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:34 pm

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Insane diver makes splash
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CRAZY Darren Taylor has broken his own world record for highest shallow dive after jumping from a 35 ft height into just 12 inches of water. Taylor broke the record at a water park in Colorado.

The nutty diver, known as Professor Splash, uses a belly flop technique to "skip across the water" when he lands. He also added that "experience and research" is the key to his success and that what he does is not easy.

Professor Splash has broken his own Guinness World Record for highest shallow dive three times. The daredevil continues to keep busy focusing on high dives and his new passion, fire diving. Professor Splash is a native of Colorado.

SpursFan1902 · Post by **SpursFan1902** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:00 pm

WTF!!! What is wrong with people??

Post by **faceless** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:42 pm

[web]https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7610786.stm[/web]

Ok, so no record breaker - but that contraption looks brilliant!

Post by **faceless** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:51 pm

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Woman with the world's longest legs (132cm), Svetlana Pankratova, meets the world's shortest man, He Pingping[/align]

Post by **faceless** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:53 pm

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[/align]Nearly 300 tow trucks spell out the words 'New York' on a runway at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field in an attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the largest tow truck parade...

Post by **faceless** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:53 pm

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World's Biggest Gold Statue Since Ancient Egypt[/align]
A 50kg solid gold statue of model Kate Moss has been unveiled at the British Museum, in London. The £1.5m sculpture, entitled Siren, is by artist Marc Quinn and is one of several contemporary sculptures in the exhibition Statuephilia.

Quinn's sculpture is said to be the largest gold statue created since the time of Ancient Egypt.

Post by **faceless** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:17 pm

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Iranian workers prepare a giant ostrich meat sandwich planned to reach 1,500 metres in an attempt to achieve a Guinness World Record, during the second international food and health festival in Tehran

Post by **faceless** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:30 pm

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[/align]Workers walk near a large pair of jeans made in a factory in San Juan de Lurigancho, Peru, in an attempt to snag a place in the Guinness Book of World Records

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A 'large' pair of jeans? How large does something have to be for the reporter to think they might just be fucking massive?!

Post by **faceless** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:12 pm

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Man eats his way to mince pie title
A solicitor ate 41 mince pies in 10 minutes to become the new mince pie-scoffing champion in a speed eating contest.
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Denzil Gunner, 30, on a year-long mission to take on strange challenges won £1,000 at the annual competition in Somerset and may now be chosen to represent Britain in extreme eating competitions in America.

However, Mr Gunner, from Notting Hill, in London, was five pies short of the world record of 46, which is held by an 8st American woman. Sonya Thomas, 36, from Virginia, devoured 46 mince pies in 10 minutes in 2006. The annual contest is a popular event on the competitive eating circuit and this year 29 pie-eaters took part.

Mr Gunner said: "I didn't do any eating preparation at all, I just showed up and went for it. My technique was just to cram as many in as possible and drink as much water as I could because they are very dry. I didn't really think about it I just kept on eating until they said stop and then I realised how ill I felt. You can't really taste them but I'm glad its over a month to Christmas when I have to eat another one. I'm worried about the drive home now, I think there will be a lot of stops in lay-bys."

Speed eating is a major phenomenon in America and some of the bigger events are televised with prize funds of thousands of dollars. But extreme eating in the UK has attracted criticism from health campaigners, who have condemned it for glorifying gluttony.

Organiser Daniel Medley said the International Federation of Competitive Eating will be interested in Mr Gunner as his mince pie achievement was impressive. "This is the closest that a Brit has ever got to the record," he said. "If he wants to go to America we will take him and the federation will be quite keen on him going over there and doing the circuit. Americans are quite confused about mince pies because they think they contain meat."

Last year house-husband Clive Pearson, 34, from Chilcompton, in Somerset, stuffed down 26 mince pies in 10 minutes to win.

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His technique "to cram as many in as possible" clearly shows the mind of a genius at work!

Post by **faceless** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:19 pm

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People prepare the world's longest currywurst, measuring 40 metres long, at a Christmas market in Berlin.[/align]

I've never heard of a currywurst, but I'd give it a go for sure...

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:58 pm

they're OK, and Berlin is famous for them, but you've got to understand that the German curry culture and the British one are miles apart. As the Brits make great curry and not so good sausage - for the most part -, the Germans make great sausage ....

Post by **faceless** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:33 pm

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Summer the horse, owned by Crystal Socha, of Augusta, Kansas, has the longest tail in the world. Measuring an impressive 12ft 6in, it has been officially recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records[/align]

luke · Post by **luke** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:22 pm

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A farmer from Lebanon couldn't believe his eyes when he discovered he had grown a prize-winning potato on his land, he told AFP on Saturday, saying he was hoping to enter the Guinness World Records. [/align]

"This giant weighs 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)," Khalil Semhat said at his farm in the Tyre area, 85 kilometres (50 miles) south of Beirut.

"I've been working the land since I was a boy, and it's the first time I've seen anything like it."

Semhat, 56, said he had not done anything special to cultivate such a super-sized spud. "I didn't use any chemicals at all," he insisted, adding that he had to ask a friend to help him haul the huge tuber out of the ground.

Now he hopes the find will get a mention in the famous Guinness Book of Records, and said he will send in the details for possible inclusion next year.

He said he was "very proud" to have grown the enormous specimen on his farm, which took a pounding in 2006 during the war between Israel and Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement.

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Post by **Skylace** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 2:01 am

He looks like the Fonz

Post by **faceless** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:25 pm

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THIS strongman has the EYE-of-the-tiger. Kung-fu master Luo Deyuan hauls motors for yards with sharp hooks wedged into his eye sockets. But he has been banned from a world record after failing to see EYE-TO-EYE with Guinness World Record bosses. Organisers have refused to even consider the stunt because it is too dangerous.

Now Luo, 21, from Guiyang, China, has his EYE on safer stunts – such as lifting two buckets of water with his eyebrows, stopping electric fans with his tongue, and walking on sharp blades. "I'll keep trying because I really want to do something special in the world. I really want to perform my stunts on a bigger stage," he said.

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