New Guinness Categories

[Rachel Peters]

I'd like to challenge the book to add a new category:

LEAST tattooed woman in history -- Lucky Pebble Rach

You think?

Or Least Swords Swallowed??

I need some more categories I could win.
Any thoughts?

I'm thinking I might be able to win "Most Magazine Cover Photos"... but first, I'll have to change my name to "Oprah Winfrey".

[gav]

I'm with you on this one. I have often thought I could get the guinness record for 'least tattooed australian street performer'. If you've seen australian street performers you'd see it's not such a hard record to set.

You could get the record for 'most posts on performers.net by a female'

[Peter Voice]

We need a whole new book about 'The World's Second Best ....... (insert favourite category)"

It would be cool, the world's second most tattoooed Australian street performer, the world's second best juggler, the world's second best pavement artist, the second fastest hot-dog eater etc. The world's second best street magician would be hotly contested.

Without the world's second best, we cannot have the best.

[UCO]

Peter that is a wonerful idea. Because all the folks who came in second and let down by a fraction of a second. I think the underdog should be rewarded .
Rachel you are hilarious.
How about recognition for couch surfing.

Or most nights slept in a park by choice.

Most non alcoholic beers drunk in a hour.

Most rotten fig eaten.

Collection of anti mcdonalds propoganda.

Largest crowd smallest hat.

Coldest street show ever.

Most cobblestones collected at a italian soccer riot.
I think all of these have a shot. Some of them I am sure that some of them could be taken by folks on these very pages.

[Rachel Peters]

And the difference between first and second place are so often a matter of chance. Yeah, there should be a book for that. Then one more for thirds, but stop there.

These suggestions are all starting to remind me of the fake year book I made up for myself after dropping out of high shool to home school myself.
I voted myself "most" everything.

"most popular"
"most prettiest"
"most unpopular"
"Most likely to become an astronaut"
etc.

I wanted to make an actual year book with photos of me all alone, doin' stuff, but I never got around to it. (class trip photos would have been great. Me at the A&P, buying some Coke. Prom too. ...like, me with my mom, in the livingroom. A cardboard box painted as a limo.)

Anyway, back on topic.

Peter, make that book. I'll buy it.

[Peter Voice]

A Melbourne photographer, whose name escapes me, did a superb series of pictures of those athletes that came fourth at the Sydney Olympics.
The images were both heart-breaking and inspiring. Each person was already a champion in their world but did not come home with the medal they set out to win.
What they did do was make sure those that got the laurels were better than them and it was a beautiful exhibition.

I played 142 games of professional "Australian Rules Football" (if any-one knows what that is) in what most would call the minor leagues and tried out several times for the "Big Time". I always knew some guys were simply better than me but I always enjoyed making them prove it.

Missed by that much and never regretted a moment (maybe the broken knee)

What we really need is a book of the "World's 4th Best"

I would happily claim a spot for my p.art (despite the fact that I actually think I'm am the best).

Few things give me more pleasure than seeing some-one do my craft better than me and, as I'm getting old, cynical and cranky, I'm being rapidly passed.

But if I can be fourth best then the other three artists have to keep working hard.