02849nam 22005533u 450 991015736590332120170821193710.01-78372-016-6(CKB)3710000000179825(EBL)1728090(SSID)ssj0001262536(PQKBManifestationID)12416092(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001262536(PQKBWorkID)11216816(PQKB)10450416(MiAaPQ)EBC1728090(Au-PeEL)EBL1728090(OCoLC)883568888(EXLCZ)99371000000017982520140714d2010|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrStrictly Off the Record[electronic resource] On the Trail of World Records with Norris McWhirterChichester Summersdale Publishers Ltd20101 online resource (353 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84953-069-6 Front Cover; CONTENTS; AUTHOR'S PREFACE; ONE - THE ODYSSEY BEGINS; TWO - FULL OF HOT AIR; THREE - THE BIGGEST BOOK IN THE WORLD; FOUR - THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL; FIVE - STRANGE ENCOUNTERS UP NORTH; SIX - THE FORGETFUL MEMORY MAN; SEVEN - BRIDGE AND BRAINS; EIGHT - JACKSON THE RECORD KING; NINE - DANCING IN THE STREETS; TEN - THE LEANING TOWER OF BREAD; ELEVEN - TRIFFID CHRYSANTHEMUMS, CHANTING AND CLAIRVOYANTS; TWELVE - DEAD WOMEN, HANDSHAKING AND LONG CARS; THIRTEEN - A SPORTING CHANCE; FOURTEEN - KOREANS, KIMCHI AND CAR-PULLING; FIFTEEN - GOLDEN OLDIESSIXTEEN - ALL ABOARD - TRAINS, BUSES AND FIRE ENGINESSEVENTEEN - THE WORLD'S WORST WHIFF AND OTHER TV DISASTERS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In this achingly funny and irreverent memoir, Anna Nicholas recounts her adventures judging records around the world with The Guinness Book of Records founder, Norris McWhirter, CBE. Nicknamed Batman and Robin, they travelled the UK and beyond together meeting eccentric, weird and wonderful record breakers. Adjudicating Richard Branson's circumnavigation of the globe in a hot air balloon, the world's highest tower of bread, the longest conga line and the cramming of the most people ever on deckchairs onto Weymouth beach was all in a day's work for this dynamic duo. And, of course, things diStrictly Off the Record World recordsGeneralHILCCDictionaries - GeneralHILCCWorld recordsGeneralDictionaries - General032.0922Nicholas Anna814751AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910157365903321Strictly Off the Record2881405UNINA