We all grew up with the story of the Tortoise and the Hare. Well, there is a tortoise at the Adventure Valley Park in Brasside, Durham, UK, that could’ve won that race even if the hare didn’t take a nap. Bertie is so fast, he is now in the new edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for Fastest Tortoise in the World. How fast is he? He sprinted a 5.48m course set at a gradient of 1:12 in a speedy 19.59 seconds, destroying the record that had been held since 1977.
Proving once again that slow and steady still wins the race. Although this race took over 38 years to win.
BTW Bertie is a real pisser! Especially, when he gets so excited about getting his certificate for being the World’s Fastest Tortoise that he pees on his owner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTu9Vcq7R0g
Two weeks ago, Alliance In Motion Global Inc. gathered 8,018 people in Manila, Philippines to create the Largest Human Smiley Face and together they landed themselves in the Guinness Book of World Records. If this world record doesn’t bring a big smile to your face, then I don’t know what will?
The only thing that is missing from it, is Forrest Gump running around the finished product telling reporters, “Sh!t happens!”
There is a Guinness Book of World Records title for Most Self-Portrait Photographs (Selfies) Taken in Three Minutes and Kim Kardashian isn’t the holder of it…yet. Believe it or not, The Rock claimed it yesterday at the London premiere of his new movie San Andreas. Dwayne Johnson took over 105 photos with the fans on the red carpet, but only that number counted towards the title. What were the requirements? He had to show “the full face and neck of participants being viewable and that the images were focused, with recognisable faces and no blurring.”
Congrats DJ on getting into the Guinness Book of World Records. I am so proud that I went to same college as him. See what you can accomplish if you go to the University of Miami!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsYGcDVtnjo
Yesterday on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Guillermo made the Guinness Book of World Records for wearing the Most Ugly Christmas Sweaters at one time. That number is 25 and by the 18th one, things turned ugly for the ABC late night sidekick. The normally happy guy was anything but buried under all of that cotton and wool and whatever else goes into making those wearing works of arts.
After the 24th sweater was managed to be put on him, it was time for the final one to be placed on him on the stage. He could barely move his upper and looked like a colorful mummy all wrapped up like that.
The best moment of the night came after Jimmy Kimmel laughed at him. Guillermo told him, “Can I tell you something? You don’t pay me enough for this sh!t!” The security guard normally grins and bear it, but this challenge proved too much for the cutest guy in late night. You can’t blame him, think how hot you are in just one sweater. Now imagine that feeling with 25 of them over your torso. It would literally make you hot under the collar…and every where else.
On a positive note, this is the second time he has been in Guinness’ book. The first time was back in April 2008 when he wore 100 pairs of underwear simultaneously. What will Jimmy Kimmel do to him next? Most socks? Most T-shirts? Most pants? Most necklaces? I guess we will have to wait to find out. That is if Guillermo is willing to do something like this again.
The Gay family in LaGrangeville, NY have something to be gay about because they once again are the winners of Guinness Book of World Records title for Most Lights on a Residential Property. They were beat out last year by a man in Australia, but since he moved his light display to a mall this year, they were able to take back the title.
They had some help from Ritz Crackers who supplied them with a light display of around 200,000 lights, bringing their total to 601,736 lights. Not only is their house lit up, if you drive by you can hear the music it is synced to on a FM radio station. So at least their neighbors have one less reason to hate them. Another reason why their neighbors have a reason to like them is that they have a donation box at the end of their driveway for people to donate money to local charities. Now if the other residents can get past all of those lights keeping them up all night, all would be OK with The Gays!
