Thursday, October 27, 2005

Well, it's official...

The Chicago White Sox have won the World Series!
Unfortunately, I was not able to watch a single game - this year's schedule coincided with the National "Who Can Sit Still The Longest" Playoffs. Don't get me wrong! It's not that I don't like baseball! It's just that there is only so much free time in a day, and I'd rather spend my time watching people try to maintain a stationary position, than watch a bunch of overweight, continuously spitting men run around a cockeyed square and pat each other on the bottom!

That, and the fact that I don't like baseball...

For those interested in the sport:
The Motionlessness Records from 1967 to now
4:30 hrs: William A. Fuqua (USA) 1967
5:32 hrs: Mardeana Odom (USA) 1974
5:40 hrs: William A. Fuqua (USA) 1975
5:43 hrs: Melody A. Schick (USA) 1976
6:31 hrs: William A. Fuqua (USA) 1978
7:02 hrs: Wolfgang Kreuzer (Australia) 1980
8:33 hrs: Melody A. Schick (USA) 1981
8:35 hrs: William A. Fuqua (USA) 1982
10:41 hrs: Ivan Jans (Belgium) 1983
10:58 hrs: William A. Fuqua (USA) 1984
12:48 hrs: Willie Nugent (Northern Ireland) 1984
13:00 hrs: Willie Nugent (Northern Ireland) 1985
15:02 hrs: A. G. dos Santos (Portugal) 1988
16:16:16 hrs:Martin Bukovsek (Germany) 1993
18:05:50 hrs: Radhey Shyam Prajapati (India) 1996
20:10:06 hrs: Om Prakash Singh (India) 1997
30:12 hrs: Akshinthala Seshu Babu (India) 2003
Notes: A claim of 22 hrs by Hatoino Delirio (Portugal) in 1997 was not officially confirmed. Akshinthala Seshu Babu stood motionless in Mahatma Gandhi's posture with a stick for 25:01 hrs in 2001 and for 35 hours in 2002. The record in 2003 was achieved without a stick.

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1 comment:

The shadow... said...

Can you please post videos of the motionlessness so that I can verify the stats?