guinness book of world records TV show. Kissing cobras

A man was trying to beat the record of kissing the greatest number of alert/hooded cobras on the head . Thats not the bad part… the warning was… please “dont try this at home”
Just in case you were looking at your “home pit of cobras” and thinking… “ya know…”

Would that entry go under the “Lowest IQ” category?

Or did someone got pissed at him and say, “Hey, kiss my asp.”

I watched that episode tonight. When I was watching the preview I was thinking, So there’s a guy that break a whole bunch of eggs. Whoopie! Then I saw how he broke them. I couldn’t do it. In fact, everytime the eggs cracked, I thought it was his hand. I just stared at the TV with a mixture of amazement and disgust. That was really nasty.

As for the guy with the snakes. How desperate do you have to be to get your name in a book? I wouldn’t do it.

That guy probably hasn’t had a date in years. He just had to kiss something.

I was just waiting for him to waive at the camera and say, “Hi, Mom. I’m gonna die right here on TV. Aren’t you proud of me?”

Curiousity overwhelms me. I didn’t see the show, so can someone please describe what the egg-breaking guy was doing to break the eggs?

Imagine if you wanted to break an egg with one hand – you’d squeeze it between your fingers and the palm of your hand. This guy did it between his fingers and the back of his hand.

The worst was when he kissed the 18ft King Cobra. As if breaking the record wasnt enough for this man.

The record he SHOULD have gotten is : WORLDS STUPIDEST MAN.

Hello Darwin Awards?

I thought this program was going to have the guy who could hold his breath for 7 minutes or more as they said so a week back that is what was coming this week. Nuts.

As for kissing cobras, I can’t imagine if he kisses women the say way :slight_smile:

I kept wondering what Steve Irwing would think about the cobra-kissing man.
Whenever I see shows like that I gotta be amazed that people actually think this stuff up. I mean, who sits around and thinks “I’m gonna try to break an egg with the BACK of my hand?” or, “looking at cobras just doesn’t give me the satifaction it once did!”

Y’all musta missed the show with the guy who put a tarantula in his mouth and then proceeded to blow bubbles for 30 seconds. Spiders get very agitated when air blows across 'em, ya see.

I heard that Guinness stopped accepting “eating”-related records because of the unnecessary danger involved. Why they still accept records for tarantula-bubble-blowing and cobra-kissing is beyond me.

If I may paraphrase Sir Edmund Hillary

“Because they are there.”

Just last week they featured the “Man Who’s Eaten The Most Metal.” In fact, I was going to start a thread about it but decided against it.

And the Teeming Millions neglect to mention the man who hung from two biplanes for 9.4 seconds? What is WRONG with you people? [smiley deleted out of courtesy to ChiefScott]

Y’all would have just LOVED the episode with the man who owns the longest fingernails . . . or the one where there’s a contest to see who can eat the most worms in 30 seconds. Or a man who had a bunch o’ bees in his mouth for 10 seconds. Or a contest to see who could make their eyes protrude as much as that CVS lady’s did . . . I could go on. I won’t.

And yes, I do have a life. I just like watching that particular show. Interesting stuff.