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The whole dream is that everybody has a world record in them," said Dan Rollman, president and co-founder of the Brooklyn-based
Universal Record Database. Since the site went live last fall, more than 1,000 feats have been documented - ranging from the most binder clips on a face (
now up to 34) to the longest toenail (
seven-eighths of an inch) to the most whoopee cushions sat on without smiling or laughing (
presently up to 18), and a few records involving mustaches (
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6). Beyond the basics of setting records, the URDB is
based on three principles: 1. Honesty and accuracy are pretty much everything, 2. Don't hurt yourself. Don't hurt others. Don't hurt the planet, and 3. Waste sucks.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jun 20, 2009 -
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R.I.P. Doris Self, the world's oldest video game competitor. In 1983, she achieved a world record score of 1,112,300 points on the arcade game
Q*Bert. Two years later, her record fell, but she was encouraged to continue playing by Pac-Man record holder
Billy Mitchell, who delivered a Q*Bert arcade machine to her door. Doris would play Q*Bert five nights per week from 1-3:00 AM in the morning as an alternative to taking pills for sleeping.
She continued playing Q*Bert
competitively well into 2006.
posted by Otis
on Nov 13, 2006 -
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