A Va. woman’s burp was louder than some motorcycles. It set a record.
August 8, 2023 7:12 AM Subscribe
Kimberly Winter could feel a bubble rising through her digestive tract. She smiled before opening her mouth, believing the noise she was about to produce would cement her name into history. (archive.today link)
Deci-belch!
posted by chavenet at 7:19 AM on August 8, 2023 [7 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 7:19 AM on August 8, 2023 [7 favorites]
not all heroes wear capes
posted by Kitteh at 7:25 AM on August 8, 2023 [8 favorites]
posted by Kitteh at 7:25 AM on August 8, 2023 [8 favorites]
... believing the noise she was about to produce would cement her name into history.
I felt like that when I had norovirus
posted by Countess Elena at 7:27 AM on August 8, 2023 [8 favorites]
I felt like that when I had norovirus
posted by Countess Elena at 7:27 AM on August 8, 2023 [8 favorites]
Semi related...my newly discovered lingual hernia is making sounds I've never heard before...and they are loud!
posted by Czjewel at 7:37 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Czjewel at 7:37 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
May her glorious record stand for 14 years as did the one broken.
posted by djseafood at 7:39 AM on August 8, 2023
posted by djseafood at 7:39 AM on August 8, 2023
the velociraptors call is a thing of awe and beauty
posted by lalochezia at 7:48 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by lalochezia at 7:48 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
America, truly a shining city on a hill.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 7:59 AM on August 8, 2023 [7 favorites]
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 7:59 AM on August 8, 2023 [7 favorites]
awww. I have a friend who is a dainty pretty woman, and she burps like a truck driver. I have sent her this link. thank you.
posted by supermedusa at 8:01 AM on August 8, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by supermedusa at 8:01 AM on August 8, 2023 [2 favorites]
"Coming, Euroda!"
posted by gc at 8:11 AM on August 8, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by gc at 8:11 AM on August 8, 2023 [3 favorites]
Winter modeled her burping after Homer Simpson and Shrek.
Barney Gumble, surely?
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:25 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
Barney Gumble, surely?
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:25 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
Petition for Dream Burp Magic Barbie.
I always knew I could be a firefighter or a dentist or amermaid scuba diver thanks to Barbie. Never imagined that there were records to be broken in the arena of burping for women. (Burpdome Fighting Barbie?)
Seriously, decades of aggressively, reflexively suppressing bodily noises... sure there's a time and a place, but I've always subconsciously believed the time was never and the place was nowhere. Kimberly Winter is an inspiration.
How do you swallow air?? I don't have any carbonated beverages on hand (that are appropriate to chug midday on a tuesday while nominally in charge of children, anyways)
posted by Baethan at 9:54 AM on August 8, 2023 [2 favorites]
I always knew I could be a firefighter or a dentist or a
Seriously, decades of aggressively, reflexively suppressing bodily noises... sure there's a time and a place, but I've always subconsciously believed the time was never and the place was nowhere. Kimberly Winter is an inspiration.
How do you swallow air?? I don't have any carbonated beverages on hand (that are appropriate to chug midday on a tuesday while nominally in charge of children, anyways)
posted by Baethan at 9:54 AM on August 8, 2023 [2 favorites]
Barney Gumble, surely?
Barney Gumbzilla, surely -- or so I would think.
posted by y2karl at 10:24 AM on August 8, 2023
Barney Gumbzilla, surely -- or so I would think.
posted by y2karl at 10:24 AM on August 8, 2023
One of my proudest moments as a teenager came at the end of a cast party (I want to say the show was A Thurber Carnival?) on a Saturday night in about 1987. I was 13 or 14, and I had imbibed a lot of Coca-Cola.
The party was held at a house located in a subdivision on a looped street or court, which was set slightly below road-level into a kind of shallow bowl, effectively making the houses into the walls of the bowl.
Around 10pm or so, when I left the house to head home, I belched up all of that Coca-Cola gas. It was a large belch, an enormous belch, a proud belch, a belch full of gusto. And its burpy boom echoed and reverberated off of all of those houses, amplifying and redoubling and possibly violating local noise ordinances.
Lights went on in previously dark windows. My belch had awakened the unsuspecting. It was glorious.
posted by Dr. Wu at 10:27 AM on August 8, 2023 [20 favorites]
The party was held at a house located in a subdivision on a looped street or court, which was set slightly below road-level into a kind of shallow bowl, effectively making the houses into the walls of the bowl.
Around 10pm or so, when I left the house to head home, I belched up all of that Coca-Cola gas. It was a large belch, an enormous belch, a proud belch, a belch full of gusto. And its burpy boom echoed and reverberated off of all of those houses, amplifying and redoubling and possibly violating local noise ordinances.
Lights went on in previously dark windows. My belch had awakened the unsuspecting. It was glorious.
posted by Dr. Wu at 10:27 AM on August 8, 2023 [20 favorites]
Last time I checked, Paul Stanley is still the [male] record holder for yelling BALLS the loudest.
posted by Jon_Evil at 10:37 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Jon_Evil at 10:37 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
Democracy does not go silently into that good night.
posted by TedW at 10:43 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by TedW at 10:43 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
I felt like that when I had norovirus
Both outcomes from norovirus are about as far from cement as human excretions can get.
posted by srboisvert at 11:00 AM on August 8, 2023 [2 favorites]
Both outcomes from norovirus are about as far from cement as human excretions can get.
posted by srboisvert at 11:00 AM on August 8, 2023 [2 favorites]
coming back to student residence after a night of partying, with my buddy as a witness, I passed a positively Chaucerian thonder-dent and set off a car alarm
posted by elkevelvet at 11:31 AM on August 8, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by elkevelvet at 11:31 AM on August 8, 2023 [3 favorites]
It was many years ago, but I was on a blind date. Things were going well. I was drinking beer. She was drinking scotch, one rock on the side. So I am trying to keep up with her. Comes down to having to chug my beer. I am not sure she even noticed we were in a drinking contest. Anyway, I without saying anything, chug my beer between bites of food. I feel a burp coming on. I suppress it. It is getting painful. I jump up, say excuse me and run to the door of the restaurant on Clark Street. As soon as I get one step outside, the loudest burp I ever did before and since, comes out of my mouth. I mumble "excuse me" to myself. Nobody heard or cared. The entire restaurant is looking at me. I sheepishly come back to our table. I am waiting for her to say something. Nothing. What should I say I think to myself. It came to me. "Waiter, another beer please." She just looked at me and put up her hand for a high five. We dated for a few more months, but she had to move for work.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 12:46 PM on August 8, 2023 [16 favorites]
posted by JohnnyGunn at 12:46 PM on August 8, 2023 [16 favorites]
Elliot in the Morning is still on the air? Holy cow. Shout out to DC101 and my youth.
posted by jermsplan at 2:09 PM on August 8, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by jermsplan at 2:09 PM on August 8, 2023 [3 favorites]
It's funny, I said the same thing about Elliot in the Morning, then I realized that Elliot in the Morning (DC101) is not the Jim Elliott that was a mainstay of DC Radio during the olden times of my youth as one half of "Elliott and Woodside" (WPGC/Q107), and then later as a soloist on WAVA before they went to the Jesus rock format.
...and then I realized that Elliot in the Morning had been on DC101 since 1999 (years after I had left DC for good) and I felt very old.
posted by toxic at 2:26 PM on August 8, 2023
...and then I realized that Elliot in the Morning had been on DC101 since 1999 (years after I had left DC for good) and I felt very old.
posted by toxic at 2:26 PM on August 8, 2023
well Fauquier county too, Virginia. Jeez, so hostile!
There are too many compilations on YouTube to link a prime example; but for some Good Clean Fun (okay maybe a little gross so perhaps Family Friendly Laughs) you can always get some folks together and try last year's -
I bet you can't drink a whole Sprite without burping Challenge
posted by bartleby at 4:01 PM on August 8, 2023
There are too many compilations on YouTube to link a prime example; but for some Good Clean Fun (okay maybe a little gross so perhaps Family Friendly Laughs) you can always get some folks together and try last year's -
I bet you can't drink a whole Sprite without burping Challenge
posted by bartleby at 4:01 PM on August 8, 2023
The loudness is hard to experience second hand, the length of burp however... https://youtu.be/gU3jBonhsrQ
posted by Dr. Christ at 6:50 PM on August 8, 2023
posted by Dr. Christ at 6:50 PM on August 8, 2023
You've all surely seen Loz's magnificent 7-tone fart symphony
posted by jeffburdges at 6:27 AM on August 9, 2023
posted by jeffburdges at 6:27 AM on August 9, 2023
This is majestic.
posted by egypturnash at 7:55 AM on August 9, 2023
posted by egypturnash at 7:55 AM on August 9, 2023
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