I read a news report over the weekend that a 76-year-old Nepalese man reached the summit of Mount Everest on Sunday and became the oldest person to climb the world’s highest mountain.
People that break world records always amaze me. If you want to see some interesting ones, you should go to the Guiness World Records site and browse around. If you want to break a world record, you can go HERE and apply.
So here’s what I want to know from you. If you could hold any world record, what record would it be?
For me it’s easy. I want to hold the record for the longest sermon ever preached. I’ve got to build up a lot of endurance though. The current record is held by Dr. Donald Thomas who preached a record setting 93 hours!! On second thought, I might try to break the record for number of watermelons I can bust with my forehead like the guy in the video below.
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my watercooler and creative chaos,
Pete
I would think that you would want to break the world record for holding your breath. If not the world record at least the Wilson household record.
Good point GI. I should have went after that record. So what record do you want to break? We are dieing to know.
I’m not sure I want to break any record, as it all sounds like a lot of work. But if I did, wouldn’t it have to be the world’s fastest runner? To me that’s much better than world’s strongest man – as those Strong Man competitions on ESPN2 suggest a less than attractive frame.
I think GI should attempt the record for longest blog police patrol.
As for me, I think that the longest record for reality-TV watching would be fun or maybe even longest NFL game watching. Do you think those are actual categories? I doubt it, but it would be fun!
i would like to set a record for consuming the most consecutive Venti Caramel Macchiatos at Starbucks.
to do this i will need $$$…please feel free to send me giftcards!!!
I would want to break the record for the most time spent in a lifetime bass fishing. But I would settle for catching the world record Largemouth bass and Smallmouth bass.
To make the biggest hot fudge sundae.
You mean besides longest blog police patrol and making Carnes mad? Whenever I read the Guiness Book of World Records I was always amazed at the guys who would stand motionless for days. I would have to pick that one because, as my wife can attest, I am a fidgety person and it would take a lot of self-control to set the motionless world record.
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I wouldn’t mind trying to grow my hair longer than anyone ever, but I’m not sure how well that would go in the shower. Not to mention I would probably have to get a backpack to carry my hair.
@Heidi I want to participate in YOUR world record.
@jalack You’re going to have to beat me first!
Pete, don’t give up on the longest sermon record. I know you’ve got it in you!
I think you should try to break that record and simulcast it live on your blog!
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The guy with the crazy neck skin was SICK!!!
hmm…world record for bloggin too much. lol. Ill go for that one
‘Cuz if you can’t go for longest sermon, why not wacking watermelons? At first I thought of Paul when you were talking about the longest sermon. I think he holds the record for “most people who died from falling asleep during his sermon and subsequently falling out a window”. That record would be a bugger to hold.
Me? Tough question. Maybe…”Discovered the quickest route to Africa”. or “Most well behaved toddlers on a international flight”.
@ Harold Now why do you have to go and turn a goofy post all sentimental
Great comment and truly a record worth breaking.
I think I have known some preachers who have “unofficially” broken the 93 hour record
I would want to break the record in basketball for the most 3 pointers shot in a row.
I would want to be the champion of Chubby Bunny. I believe I can fit 20-25 big marshmallows in my mouth.
End of Story.
I would love to break the record for the person who has travelled to the most places. I think it would be so cool to see and understand all the different cultures around the world.
Miranda I think I coould give you a run for your money! haha
Lord have mercy, my innocent post about marshmallows and bunnies have been tainted!
OK PEOPLE, get back to the subject at hand.
I was lucky enough to be part of the Hubert Hoffnagel Ice Cream Emporium team that built the Worlds Largest Banana Split back in the early 80′s. There are unfortunate consequences to this particular record.
Our Banana Split was 3 miles long and wove through a movie theater parking lot.
We built it with tons of help but we built it on a day it was 80 outside. Unusual for Seattle but it does happen.
Needless to say, we also set the record for Biggest Mess the same day. hahahaha.
So, those of you excited about the Ice Cream Sunday, rethink please. For the environment! Nothing worse that sugared up birds and other creatures.
Our record only lasted a few months but hey, we had one.
Well I had a comment until I watched the video, now I’m just speechless. Isn’t there something noone else has done yet? You could be the first and hold that title forever!
Got a new one WaxyOne. Being censored the most times from your blog
@ Gi You already hold that record
i think i hold the unofficial world record of how many hair colors my hair has been in the last 15 years…
otherwise, how many tontinos pizzas one can eat in a given amount of time…
Why don’t Pastors ever wanta hold the “Shortest Sermon Preached” record? Huh? Tell me. Please!
I don’t know if this would be a ‘record’ but i really wanta see someone stick a straw in an orange like on those orange juice commercials.
Well if I hold the record WaxyOne I want to put it so far out of reach that even a steroid enhanced blogger cannot touch my record.
@ GI, I must be second in the censored record.
@ Anne, I’ve never known anyone who loves tontinos more than you!
Sorry @pete. It seems like this week every year brings on the nostalgia.
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1. a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time:
While I don’t yearn I would like to visit a day or two as long as I got to pick the day.
Pete if you want to beat me on the fishing part your gonna have to get something bigger than that fly rod……he he
I would set a napping record. I’s starting right now. Wake me up in about 27 hours. Wait, would that be considered a nap or a a long sleep? Any longer and I think it’s a coma.
I would want to stay dead the longest like in the movie Flatliners, but for sure be brought back. And no, I am not suicidle.
I have it! Recite all the world records in the book in a super short period of time. Of course this means you must also speed up your talking significantly.
@ anne – i remember when totinos pizzas were 4/$1.00 about 9 or 10 years ago…single man’s shopping spree!
I’d like the record for never receiving any junk mail. In my mailbox at home or my e-mail. I know that’s just wishful thinking.
Most consecutive strikes on Wii bowling. I have low aspirations.
@jon I remember that price. My grocery cart was full of Totinos, beer and mac and cheese. Good old college diet.
I love Cross Point. I love Pete. You guys are doing everything right.
I agree Judas, Cross Point is Great!!!
@GI – my roommate and i would empty the freezer at the grocery!!! yes, college diet…i was a lot thinner then and ate at least one pizza per setting…if i did that now, it would not be good!!!
This makes me feel better about how long my sermons can be.
Judas you will not get an argument from me about Cross Point.
I would definitely want to break the record with…..how many glorious and amazingly beautiful homes I could tour while on a private yacht maybe in St. Tropez. That sounds good.
I can’t think of anything, but I sure enjoyed all the comments. Esp the ones about pizza. Cuz I’m pregnant. And now all I want pizza. Yeah. Thanks.
Heidi Reed
wow, what a sermon
You know we came out of a church where the normal Sunday service eventually evolved into a 4-6 hour long event (with all our children in the pews – no nursery provided because they believed that was unbiblical – and most families had at least 3 kids each – some as many as 12). Then we’d break for a Pot Providence meal (we weren’t allowed to use the word “luck”) and then the men would resume discussion about the sermon in the sanctuary for 2 hours or so and the women would have a women’s Bible study (all with our children underfoot so as to give the men some concentrated study time). We’d leave for church at 9:30am and get home around 6pm. And we had 4 kids under the age of 8 when I finally had a near mental breakdown and stopped going to church all together. He had exasperated us to wrath. HA HA HA.
So please, unless you are wanting to commit pastoral suicide, don’t do it – for the love of God, truly, don’t try to break the world record for longest sermon preached.
I don’t want to break any world records. I’m not that driven.
Pete…
Congrats on making the wordpress highlighted blogs…saw your world record post on the front page when I logged in.
pete…i’d like to sing the longest praise song on record. I couldn’t find it in Guniess…maybe I’d be the first!!!!
Miss your preacing bro–when are you back at bat like Jett?
My mom owned the smallest dog in the world (he’s passed). He’s the Guinness world record of 2006. We were on Oprah. There’s a cool photo of “Noki” on Oprah’s site. ’bout as small as a soda can. http://www.oprah.com/tows/slide/200305/20030520/tows_slide_20030520_04.jhtml
i want to break any world record the most i want to break is the long time without sleep i think i can do it