Think #18 09 августа 1998

Юмор

Baubles - kids say.

              FUN Guinness



                  Hiccups



  The longest recorded
hiccups is the case with Charles
Osborne (born 1894) from Anthony, Iowa, USA.
He hiccups last 65 years since 1922.
Attack began at a time when he cut
pig. Since then he has hiccup about 430 million times. Cure it 
and could not, even though led a normal life, during which

twice married, the father of eight
children. He admitted, however, that the difficulty with 
artificial jaw. In July 1986 he was hiccuping 20-25 times per 
minute, more Early his record is 40.



                 Sneezing



   Longest period of sneezing
registered in the case of Donna Griffiths
(B. 1969) in Pershore. She began to sneeze
January 13, 1981 and surpassed the previous
record, equal to 194 days, 27 July 1981. She
sneezed about a million times over the first 365 days of the 
attack. The first day when she did not sneeze even once was on 
September 16 1983 - 978-day attack.




                 Yawning



   In 1988 it was reported that 15-year-old
girl Lee continually yawned during
5 weeks.



                  SNORE



  The highest sound level (87.6 dB) for snoring is registered 
in Heber Castle, Kent, early on the morning of June 28, 1984. 
The measuring device was located in 30 cm from Melvin Switzer 
(born in Totton, Ghents). His wife is deaf in one ear. Studies 
show that the cause of snoring is the difference between the 
amount of light and form of the pharynx. They usually have 
snoring Throat less.




            FASTEST Govorun


 Few are able to speak chlenorazdelitelno with constant speed 
of 300 words per minute.



  Most bystrogovoryaschim speaker is
Jerry Wilmot (born in Victoria, Canada, October 6, 1914), a 
hockey commentator in the postwar period. Raymond Glendenning

(1907-1974), commentator on racing for BBC
once uttered 176 words in 30 seconds, komentiruya Greyhound 
Racing dogs. 


  In public life, the record belongs to
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(1917-1963), uttered at a rate of 327
words per minute, his speech in December 1961


  Test results Moschita John (USA)
conducted in March 1983, one of the
radio stations are 534 words in 58 seconds.
or 552 words per minute. John Helm of Yorkshire TV stations can 
list 1992 Club Football League for 26 seconds.