Dedication, that’s what you need…
Sometimes it helps to have friends in high places. Other times it helps to know Tara Cain, pre-eminent blogmother over at Sticky Fingers. For it was she who pulled strings, opened doors and twisted arms (and who knows what else) to get me this review after bagging an exclusive preview herself…
My kids are huge fans of Guinness World Records books. This celebration of the superlative has featured every year for birthdays or Christmas since I can’t remember when. You could say it holds the record in our house for most thumbed book (apart from cheque book perhaps).
The Guinness World Records book holds a record itself – it is the best-selling copyrighted book in the world with over 120 million copies sold and counting – and the newly published 2012 edition looks set to build on that incredible statistic. Inside its spangly cover there’s loads of new records including:
- Most live streams for a single event: Prince William’s marriage to Catherine Middleton (72 million live views!)
- Newest ape: The northern buff-cheeked gibbon (previously know as Gaz Coombes of Supergrass)
- Most consecutive weeks at number one on UK album chart for a solo female: Adele with her 2nd album 21! Takes all sorts…
So thanks to the folks at Guinness World Records for sending me the book, kudos to Tara for having some clout, and a prize to anyone who can solve the argument between my two sons as to who gets custody of the damn thing…
Guinness World Records 2012, (RRP £20 but if you pay that you’re really not trying hard enough), available now.
# If you wanna be the best and you wanna beat the rest… tum ti tum… #
Oooh, that tune! It’s going to be in my head all week now!
Thinking about it all these years later, Ross and Norris are almost anagrams, almost. #justsaying
But have you discovered the longest tongue? Seems to be the one page my kids go back to time and time again. That and the most number of naked people on a rollercoaster. Or is that their dad . . .?
I want that book! Please can you check to see if my firm’s (MEC) World Record for 300 people dancing to ‘Superman’ by Black Lace whilst wearing 80s gear is in it. Actually as I am officially a World Record Holder, surely I should be on their mailing list?!
Dedication…dedication…I used to love my Guinness book of records when younger, my dad was in it for ‘most people standing on a pillar box’ which I thought was about the coolest thing ever
There’s something a bit addictive about these books. Glad you got to review it. And you’ve brought back fond memories of Roy Castle’s trumpet. Thanks for that.
You lucky, lucky barsteward! We love that book and get one each year. There are pages I simply refuse to look at as they kinda freak me out.
they go for about £8 in Asda some time before Christmas. I used to collectr them until they went to magazine format. The 1955 editions are worth a fortune now.
Gaz Coombes isn’t Northern, he’s from Oxford…