Today was the London Marathon and while most people were doing it to complete the race, others were doing it to get in to Guinness Book of World Records.
While Wilson Kipsang from Kenya got into the book by running it in the record time of 2:04:29, these other 9 got in there for a much different reason.
1 – Fastest marathon dressed as a toilet – Marcus Mumford – 02:57:28
2 – Fastest marathon in an animal costume – Alex Collins – 02:48:29
3 – Fastest marathon dressed as an astronaut – Simon Couchman – 03:08:45
4 – Fastest marathon in a wedding dress – Sarah Dudgeon – 03:16:44
5 – Fastest marathon dressed as a baby – Ali King – 02:51:18
6 – Fastest marathon in a wedding dress (male) – Lee Goodwin – 03:00:54
7 – Fastest marathon dressed as a logo – Kevin Hunt – 03:37:14
8 – Fastest marathon wearing chainmail (upper body) – Michael Charles Dodd – 05:49:07
9 – Fastest marathon dressed as a jockey – Ross Birkett – 03:08:30
And these are just a few of the many who made the book today for being the fastest to finish the marathon in a certain type of get up. To see the rest, you can check out the complete list here.
How far would you go to get your name in the Guinness Book of World Records? I am thinking of taking up running just so I can beat that guy who dressed up as a baby.
Tonight at 9p on The CW’s Reign Queen Mary of Scots (Adelaide Kane) has two Princes chasing after her and by the end of the episode she will wind up with only one of them. Will it be Prince Francis (Toby Regbo) who wasn’t able to help Scotland out in the war against England? Or will it be Prince Tomas (Manolo Cardona) from Portugal who was able to successfully send her the troops she desperately needed? Both men will fight for the Queen, and she will fight her true feelings within herself. Tomas will reveal his true self to her and he is not the wonderful Prince we met last week. While Francis reveals his true feelings to Mary and they are what we want them to be; but is that enough for Mary, who has so much on her plate when it comes to picking her King, to stay?
Besides all of that, France realizes that there is a spy in their court, who revealed to England that France was sending men to help Scotland. That spy will be revealed and sentenced to death, but is he the spy? Queen Mary will get the evidence she needs to prove his innocence and name the guilty. But will she do it in time?
Meanwhile her ladies in waiting are prepping for their movie from France to Portugal and they are not happy about it. Causing one of them to make a decision, she has been avoiding.
To get all the answers to these questions, I order you to watch this beautifully shot and told show on The CW at 9p.
Over at TruTV at 9p Guinness World Records Unleashed is back and people are doing really stupid things to get in the book. Some will be successful and others will fail, and all of them are fun to watch. OK, not the guy who has to pull the most pieces of uncut spaghetti through his nose and out his mouth, but you boys will enjoy watching a woman jump rope on one leg while her other one is behind her head. Like I said people doing really stupid things to break the Guinness World Record for whatever they are doing. Tune in for a really strange and yet enjoyable of hour television.
Colonel Meow was rescued from the streets and now almost 2 years later he is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the Longest Fur On A Cat with 22.87 cm (9 inches). My long haired cat looks like a short haired one compared to the Himalayan-Persian mix.
If the 22 month old rescue is anything like a Maine Coon or a Norwegian Forest Cat, he will break his own record next year because they don’t stop growing until they are around 5 years old. So send your extra lint brushes to his owner because she desperately needs them.
And if you want to see who else made the list this year, then you buy it Guinness World Records 2014 book that is out on September 12.
I don’t know about you, but it seems like almost every time I turn on the television Regis Phibin is there. And there is a good reason for that because the Live with Regis and Kelly host was honored with Guinness Book of World Records for being on US television the most. He has been on airwaves a total of 16,746 hours and counting…
Maybe he should reconsider his decision of retiring because you know that Ryan Seacrest is catching up to his record and he is about half his age.
Sunday on Sky1’s Guinness World Records Smashed, Charlie Bell is trying to break the record of moving over 15kg of maggots in an hour from one bucket to another. That mean he has to move two and half pints of maggots per minute for the whole hour! Yum!!!
So how did he get ready to smash that Guinness World Record?
Having practised at home for months by moving rice from one bowl to another, will Charlie crack under the studio spotlight and the stench of the real thing?
Charlie Bell says: “the hardest part of this record will be controlling my gag reflex. I’m used to having maggots in my mouth because I’m a fisherman, and often warm them up before putting them on the hook – but this is a different game all together. The stench is going to be immense.â€Â
And I hear the stench was as disgusting as the record he attempted was. How and why did someone even come up with and break that record in the first place? Tune in to Sky1 on Sunday at 8p to see if he is the new title holder! He better be after all those mouth full of maggots.
OK I am off to do what he did in that third bucket!
