The Common Man's
Book of World Records

To date, we have received over replies regarding records. Several records have been broken more than once -- over twenty records were proposed and adopted by our internet audience out there.

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Note: Most of these records can be recorded as two records: one clothed and the other performed in the nude.

1. Pay telephone toss for distance (no coins in phone)
2. Longest time watching TV without falling asleep. (must include one episode of Different Strokes)
3. Fastest time to expend one blue Bic medium point rollerball pen (cannot break pen, must be clear plastic kind)
4. Farthest toss of a Pog (the cardboard ones)
5. Loudest body noise (may not use your mouth in any fashion, in decibels)
6. Empty box kick (1ft x1x1 standard cardboard box, indoor and outdoor records)
7. Tuba Toss for distance
8. Fastest pitch of a 2 liter soda bottle (in mph)
9. Duration remaining in the 'splits' position
10. Quantity of various foods eaten in 1 minute (e.g. peanut butter, eggs, ice cream, slurpees, bubble gum)
11. Longest time going without a shower
12. Most regulation baseballs/basketballs held at one time
13. Greatest distance a beer bottle cap has been snapped
14. Most knots tied in cherry stems in 1 minute
15. Most dental floss pulled through sinus cavity
16. Longest game of Monopoly
17. Fastest time shaving face/legs/head (the shaving beard is a Guinness record...)
18. Fastest 1 mile time with egg on spoon
19. Longest time wearing a football helmet
20. Duration for repeating "This must annoy you"
21. Longest time spent in a pool/bathtub
22. Most Jell-O eaten in 24 hour period (could be any of the food done in event 10)
23. Longest distance crawled while dragging tin cans on a string
24. Longest distance traveled in a metropolitan subway system (in miles)
25. Fastest mile blindfolded
26. Furthest "snap" of a JC Penny's men's briefs (size 36)
27. Fastest opening of a sealed standard #10 envelope
28. Fastest 100m with grocery bag over head
29. Farthest punt of a Webster's Dictionary (two events- one for abridged and one for unabridged)
30. Longest time hanging by one arm
31. Fastest 100m carrying a small refrigerator (those small dorm ones)
32. Briefcase toss
33. Fastest climb of large escalator the wrong way (a standard size should be made based on the Rosslyn Metro escalators)
34. Fastest 100m in 2in high heels
35. Most marbles in mouth
36. Fastest ingestion of the first section of a Wall Street Journal
37. Most accurate memorization of Pi (this has been done)
38. Longest sled down uncarpeted stairs (sled must be the plastic toboggan type)
39. Fastest recital of the 50 states in the order they were admitted
40. Farthest toss of a HD 3.5 diskette (no label)
41. Fastest 100m crawling
42. longest spin (time wise) of a hockey puck on its axis
43. fastest click up time of solitaire in Windows 3.1
44. Largest collection (this can be anything Pez dispensers, slugs, baseball cards, pencils)
45. Most teeth
46. Highest hair
47. Longest nose
48. Thickest thighs
49. Longest burp
50. Farthest run with a lit standard 6 inch sparkler
51. Longest swim carrying a 40 lb. knapsack
52. Longest time spent on a diving board
53. Longest shot of a rubber dart gun
54. Longest time balancing a quarter on nose
55. Most bounces of a superball from a single toss
56. Alphabet backwards for time
    Pearl Mitchell // 1.9 seconds
57. Longest distance traveled doing military crawl
58. Fastest drinking 10 gallons of water.
59. Beard of ants
60. Highest stack of chairs
61. Longest time T.P.ing White House trees before being arrested
62. Longest sustained note on a trumpet
63. Longest time on an elevator
64. Longest time chained to a fire hydrant
65. Fastest 1 mile time carrying a keg
66. Farthest distance traveled while popping a wheelie on a bike
67. Longest time standing still on a bike with both feet on the pedals
68. Longest time keeping a hacky-sack aloft (Team/individual)
69. Furthest distance traveled on a hippity-hoppity
70. Longest time gone without relieving oneself.
71. Most water consumed without relieving oneself. (note, a whole chapter could be dedicated to 'most time doing whatever without relieving oneself')
72. Most 911 calls logged in one day (before being arrested).
73. Most people mooned at one time.
74. Most people mooning you at one time.
75. Time spent eating nothing but Twizzlers.
76. High score in Donkey Kong. (& High score naked)
77. Most Dione Worwick albums owned.
78. Oldest inspection sticker on the road.
79. Most library books checked out at once. (multiple libraries OK, but they can't be overdue.)
80. Most hairs pulled from your body in an hour.
81. Most junk mail received in one year
82. Farthest rubber-band fling (standard size)
83. Most Diet Cokes consumed in one day
84. Most internet email received in one day (in MB)
85. 100 m. dash with scissors
86. Dropping heaviest object on foot
87. Eating foot long sub, then 50m swim for time
88. Wesson oil chug
89. Mustard drink-off
90. Longest time pushing a lawn mower
91. Longest line ever drawn
92. Highest stack of bricks (laid single file)
93. Most glass panes broken with single rock/brick throw
94. Longest jumping rope
95. Longest hanging upside down
96. Longest sitting Indian style
97. Most road-kill gathered in a day
98. Fling a computer mouse like an Olympic Hammer throw for distance (Microsoft ergonomic kind)
99. Cotton ball toss for distance
100. Longest time watching reruns of Knight Rider (or any show for that matter)
101. Longest throw of a wiffle ball.
102. The highest distance that you can drop a shoe box containing an egg that doesn't break on impact.
103. Shortest distance from oncoming train crossed in front of. (requires precise measurement)
104. Longest lasting scar (measured in days) inflicted upon oneself with a bottle of Elmer's Glue.
105. Most mattress tags removed.
106. Most times using the word "bulbous" in a published sentence, using proper English.
107. Gargle pudding for time.
108. Highest monetary debt.
109. Most vinyl albums ruined by leaving them in a hot car.
110. Washing car windshield for time. (with your tongue)
111. Longest amount of time a Lifesaver will last in your mouth.
112. Longest two-way phone call with constant conversation (about setting this record)
113. Most consecutive freethrows with a watermelon
114. Most bounces on a mattress
115. Most consecutive days living on a balance beam
116. Fastest emptying of a standard stapler.
117. Most staples put into your body at once
118. Most paperclips attached to your person at once
119. Most stitches
120. Most relatives serving life sentences
121. Most money collected from a mall fountain (without being caught).
122. Most days suspended from high school.
123. Longest working yo-yo.
124. Most rolls of Scotch tape wrapped around your face.
125. Biggest Butt.
126. Most haircuts given on a trans-Atlantic flight
     Peter Krauss of Fareham, England // 7
127. Most viewings of "Flashdance" in a row.
     UCLA ski club // 33
128. Highest scab pile produced from one body in a month
     David McGood of Hawntown, Pa // 2&3/8"
129. Most pairs of socks worn at same time at Niagara Falls
     Megan Prony of Lansing, Michigan // 12
130. Longest sustained lick of asphalt
     Basil Nevins of Toronto, Canada // 1 hour, 17 min.
131. Most professional sports events attended with 2 egg yolks in underwear
     Jason Riddley of Trenton, NJ // 132
132. Most squat-thrusts on an escalator in one session
     Glen Schlacknik of Austin, Texas // 5216
133. Longest throw of a standard US mailbox from a running start
     Charles Zenk of Ellicott City, Maryland // 33'
134. Most windbreakers worn by a pregnant woman during labor
     Gwen Osgood of Rush Falls, Illinois // 6
135. Most Whoppers eaten on a half-pipe in an hour
     Ray Thendel of Baltimore, Maryland // 23 -- THE TRICK IS STAYING ON THE HALF-PIPE!!!
136. Longest time "treading A-1"
     Jennifer Royknis of Batarn, Wisconsin // 45 min., 13 sec
137. Most foot-long hoagies stuffed in bra
     Melissa Lassitter of Albany, New York // 8
138. Longest rendition of "Wanna Be Startin Something" performed live before a crowd of more than 12 people
     Hugh and the Mud Sticks of Gainesville, Florida // 2 hours, 25 min.
139. Most consecutive days of wearing nothing but a bikini in Amish country
     Jan Polclesky of Red Lion, Pa // 24 days
140. Longest summer roadtrip in an un-air conditioned minivan full of pork sausage
     Tim Scott of Hunker, California // 47 days -- HE DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS BACK THERE...
141. Longest list of obscure records
     ABE Team of Arlington, VA // 143
142. Most Cheetos in mouth at one time
143. Most candles blown out in one breath
144. Most gallons of water chugged in the shower
145. Longest run with an empty keg tied to your waist by a 15 foot rope