Throughout recorded history, whenever someone's won a war or where there's been an economic boom and a brief period of fickle confidence, or a major pick up on a National Lottery roll-over, there have been tall pointless structures erected to mark su...
The famous Book of World Records will release the new 2009 edition later this month, to include all of the records broken and/or set in 2008. While this will include such things as Michael Phelps winning eight swimming gold medals at the Olympics an...
As the New Year celebrations wound up to a crescendo with more than 400,000 revellers packed into London's Trafalgar Square last night, news came that an attempt to break the world record for the number of people singing Auld Lang Syne, had failed.
A remarkable ninth-wicket partnership of 8, the third best in pub cricket history, saw the Dog and Sausage establish an unlikely first-innings lead of 6 in Manchester. Brian Slogger was the last man to fall for a magnificent 4. The Slogger-le...
UK Comedian Frank Skinner is to make what is hoped to be the World's longest single TV programme. It will be on the subject of swearing and is predicted to run for at least 48 hours. The world's ONLY West Bromwich Albion supporting comedian (how rare...
As news breaks of the World's Largest Potato, dug up in a field in Lebanon weighing in at a mutant 11.3 kilos, and looking as appetising as the Elephant Man's mucus, the Guinness Book of Records gets ready for it's busiest part of the year as record...
Uri Nator of the Gambia has just broken the world record for peeing, slashing the previous record held by Jimmy Riddle of Wolverhampton. Riddle's record was an astounding one minute seventeen seconds, but Nator waded in with five minutes twelve se...
As David Blaine began his latest stunt, the Guinness World Records company have revealed that no matter how long he hangs it will not be a world record. Spokesman Cedric Bigglesworth said "Mr Blaine has forgotten that hanging upside down is nothin...
Arriba South East inter-city trains have flown in the face of rail privatisation problems to record a year of unbelievable time-keeping set to land them in the Guinness Book of Train Records. Their trains between London and Portsmouth, stopping at...
An 84 year-old religious leader has an unusual hobby. Over the past 70 years he has been collecting wives. He is proud of his massive collection of 86 wives and 172 Mothers-in-law- some of whom, he has maintained for more than 30 years. However af...
Mexico City (Tacuba Times) - Woody Kesmon, a native of Settee, Australia, recently broke the Guiness World Record for listening to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass's Tijuana Taxi while riding in the bed of a truck in Mexico City. Following his su...
A couple of days into the Olympics, and despite the impression given by the Chinese authorities that they are a bunch of oppressive old dictators frightened by democracy, things appear to be going extraordinarily well, or in the case of the Americans...
Karen Matthews, Mother of Shannon has contacted the 'Guinness Book of Records' to enquire what the highest number of arrests within one family stands at.
Wayne Rooney, the erm Manchester United and erm England striker, has entered the Record Books again by shattering the World Erm-saying Record, breaking the existing total set by Simon Jack in 1978.
The Guinness Book of Records has just confirmed that they have discovered the smallest vagina ever caught on record. It belongs to Jennifer Jenkins, a trailer-trash skank who lives somewhere in Nebraska.
Chicago woman, Olivia Fischer, has survived the worst nite of her life after becoming trapped in an elevator with, not one, but two world record holders.
A Spokesman for the Guinness Book of World Records, Sir Reginald Bottoms, announced today that a record for the largest stool ever produced by a single human being would go into their record books. "My god you should have seen that sucker, I ha...
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