With a sexy, Spy Who Loved Me accent, she reviewed a registration package for the five-day convention I was about to attend. Guinness World Record holders strut their stuff #Worlds lowest limbo bar registration# Katrina told me I was one of 60 Guinness World Record holders registered, along with as many reporters from around the world. The Austrian Tourist Association would provide accommodations at resorts surrounding Faaker See, a crystal clear alpine lake a short drive away. Media events were scheduled throughout the convention where record holders could strut their stuff. The world’s largest pillow at an Austrian convention of Guinness World Record holders in the region of Faaker See, September 1982.
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I was wondering how to demonstrate driving around the world at a press conference when Katrina folded up her notes and stood directly in front of me. Her dreamy blue eyes seemed to detect my confusion. My knees buckled as I struggled to make sense of what she wanted. “To Faak, so you can check into the hotel. It is a beautiful lake,” she added, as I collected my composure. The next morning, Norris McWhirter, who with twin, Ross, founded the Guinness Book of Records, welcomed the unlikely collection of humanity.Īs he spoke I thumbed through Katrina’s documents trying to figure out who was who. Across the table Roger Bourbon, who ran marathons in a waiter’s uniform carrying bottled water on a serving tray, was chatting with Sabra Starr, a belly dancer who could gyrate for 100 hours non-stop. Meanwhile Raino, a German, pulled a six-inch high bicycle out of his briefcase and started circling the room, as he would do all week whenever there was an audience.
Later, we stepped outside where Englishman John Moss clamped his teeth onto the end of tow-rope. The other end was tied to the back a snorting 490 cc Yamaha motorcycle. With John anchored to the front of a transport truck, the motorcycle hopelessly spun its rear wheel trying to escape the mighty molars of Mr.
Guinness World Record holders sure are a motley crew John Moss demonstrates his record-breaking mighty molars He told me his teeth once held down a helicopter. Over the next few days I witnessed an unbalanced looking Englishman do 760 one-handed push-ups and met a flat-stomached chap who recorded 26,000 sit-ups. A gentleman known as the Flyer of Flemsbury made swan diving across four kitchen tables look like child’s play. I hung out with the hungriest flame-eating lady who I suspected wore an asbestos wig. How low can you go? Not as low as Denise Culp who held the Guinness World Record for lowest ‘roller-limbo’ There was also the woman who could eat 100 metres of spaghetti in less than 30 seconds and lanky 7-1/2-foot tall giant, Chris Greener, the tallest man in the British Commonwealth. The smartest man in the world was there and wanted to know if the Volvo we raced around the world had been ‘souped up’. Michel Lotito from France earned his nickname, Mr. Mangetout, after eating an entire Cessna airplane.
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