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WE’VE
GOT YOUR
NUMBER
Sporting the jersey of your
current favorite NFL player
can be risky. One dropped
pass or missed tackle—or
worse, a trade—could make
you a prime target for airborne hot dog wrappers and
“spilled” drinks.
Play it safe by wearing
the number of a football star
of the past, like No. 12 Joe
Namath. You’ll still show team
spirit but will have a much better chance of coming home
clean—or at all.
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Aichi Ono o
Japan set the
world record
for 101 head
spins in one
minute
Stupid Human Tricks
Want 15 minutes of fame but aren’t
pretty enough—or stupid enough—to
get cast in a reality show? Why not try
getting your name into the Guinness
Book of World Records?
Before you start growing out your
fingernails or training to eat a thousand
hot dogs in one sitting, pick up Larry
Olmsted’s book Getting into Guinness
(HarperCollins, $19.95). From it, you’ll
learn all about setting a Guinness (as in
the beer) world record and how to up
your chances of seeing your name in
print. (Only 8 percent of world records
set are published in the book each year.)
What makes Olmsted, an Arrive
contributor, such an expert? Well, he
holds two published records: one for the
greatest distance traveled between two
rounds of golf on the same day (
Australia and California) and the other for the
longest continuous poker session in a
casino ( 72 hours and two minutes).
So, why are people so obsessed with
Guinness “Even if you can’t be the best
in any conventional sport, you can be
the best in a category you make up,”
Olmsted says. Hmm, wonder if Guinness
would go for a most consecutive train
rides category. That we could do.
