Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.
Meet Ashrita, record breaker for God -- The greatest record of all: birds, beaver, beer, and Sir Hugh's impossible question -- Getting into Guinness gets personal -- Guinnessport: getting into Guinness goes prime time -- 15 minutes of fame -- Seventy-two hours in hell: getting back into Guinness -- The cheese does not stand alone: giant food and Guinness -- Records go global -- The dark side of Guinness: records gone bad -- Epilogue -- The stories of my favorite records -- The long way into Guinness: an ode to drudgery -- So you want to be a record breaker? -- A record-breaking timeline.
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Recounts the author's journey into the culture of the "Guinness World Records" and his own haphazard and successful attempts to break two records; profiles some of the book's funniest and most interesting records.
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