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earthleakage
from tell the world you're winning on 2004-04-20 12:52 [#01152563]
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Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, has died aged 78. Mr McWhirter suffered a heart attack whilst attempting the longest ever tennis match at his Wiltshire home on Monday evening, his family said.
During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a fixture of the BBC 1 children's show record breakers, hosted by dead annoying tap dancing tosser Roy Castle, who similarly died whilst trying to break the world record for passive smoking.
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Zephyr Twin
from ΔΔΔ on 2004-04-20 12:53 [#01152567]
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Happy Birthday to Norris McWhirter, who is 78 today!
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Zephyr Twin
from ΔΔΔ on 2004-04-20 12:54 [#01152569]
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but seriously who is 78 and says to themself "Now seems like a good point in my life to attempt the longest tennis match ever"
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2004-04-20 12:59 [#01152584]
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Are you joking?
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roygbivcore
from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2004-04-20 13:01 [#01152586]
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hahaha
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epohs
from )C: on 2004-04-20 13:02 [#01152590]
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deadest_guy_ever!
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roygbivcore
from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2004-04-20 13:05 [#01152594]
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also he probably started playing the worlds longest tennis match when he was 50
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2004-04-20 13:09 [#01152603]
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Norris McWhirter is real, and he is to do with the Guiness Book of Records ... it's the being dead, and the mode of death I'm querying.
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epohs
from )C: on 2004-04-20 13:13 [#01152616]
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n00z
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ecnadniarb
on 2004-04-20 13:14 [#01152620]
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Well Petes the first paragraph is copied from the BBC web site.
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dog_belch
from Netherlands, The on 2004-04-20 13:16 [#01152628]
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I´ll always remember him, fondly, arguing with some kid on the telly about who was right about a record, and for the name Norris Spunksquirter.
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2004-04-20 13:23 [#01152648]
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Oh Well -- Another death.
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thecurbcreeper
from United States on 2004-04-20 16:34 [#01153070]
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i like world records. they make me laugh. ah ha ha
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