Monday, July 6, 2009

'GASTRO' AND OTHER ANATOMICAL FEATS

Fate often intrudes in our lives in disagreeable ways. Arthritis makes a pianist's fingers unable to play; the athlete unable to run due to knee pain; and the list goes on. A new one, however, is with the small, Japanese man, Takeru (Tsunami)Kobayashi, 29, who held a world record at one time for eating 56 hot dogs in 12 minutes. This year he ate 54 1/2 but lost. Sadly, his jaw is suffering enormous pain when he opens his jaw more than a half inch...he may never again be able to equal his own record, let alone beat the new record set by Joey "Jaws" Chestnut who ate 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

Another man ate to hamburgers and buns in 15 seconds.

The world has recorded the longest burp of 36 seconds.

As though this hasn't been disgusting enough, we also have flatulence records on YouTube...an exhibitionist trait I find startling.

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