# "You Bet Your Guinness World Record!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 27, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860 "2003-05-27T20:21:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/1 "2003-05-27T20:21:03Z")
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) – High school student Joe Kavanagh always wanted to break a world record, so he gathered 800 sets of black glasses with fuzzy eyebrows and mustaches. About 800 students and faculty members at East Lansing High School donned the disguises Thursday in an effort to break the **Guinness World Record for Most People in One Place at One Time Wearing Groucho Marx Glasses**. The previous mark was 522 people. Participants at the 1,180-student school had to wear the glasses for 20 minutes to break the record. —I . . . just . . . don’t know what to add to this . . . ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/2 "2003-05-27T21:01:36Z")
“Those are their principles. If you don’t like them they have others.” ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/3 "2003-05-27T21:26:21Z")
Now there’s a picture for the yearbook! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/4 "2003-05-27T21:29:04Z")
Man, I remember when you had to work for your records. World’s fatest man? That takes dedication! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/5 "2003-05-28T13:31:59Z")
Did you mean to type “fattest” or “fastest?” Both take dedication—but not the kind of dedication it takes to be the world’s fastest fattest man! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/6 "2003-05-28T14:07:20Z")
I’d have loved to see the students wear the glasses to their graduation ceremony. Truly a thing of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/7 "2003-05-28T16:04:00Z")
I didn’t realize such random things could be world records. I am currently setting the record for most people holding 4 different colors of highlighters. I plan to notify Guinness tonight. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/8 "2003-05-28T16:49:33Z")
Longest incubation of a chair cushion… I rule. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/9 "2003-05-28T20:32:50Z")
I meant fattest. I am the world’s beast spieler. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/10 "2003-05-28T21:53:24Z")
“Today I saw 800 people wearing my glasses. When I’m not wearing my glasses I can’t see a thing.” ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/11 "2003-05-28T23:37:09Z")
**CLAYTON\_e** is the world’s first person to type this sentence at the Straight Dope message board. (Don’t I get some cash for that?) ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/12 "2003-05-29T16:25:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by clayton\_e \* > **CLAYTON\_e is the world’s first person to type this sentence at the Straight Dope message board.** No you’re not. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bet-your-guinness-world-record/177860/13 "2003-05-29T16:43:30Z")
I hold the record for the greatest number of people with my user ID posting to the SDMB.