Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
My great grandma was born somewhere between late 1899 and early 1900. Records were bad back then but it would be nice to be born right on the witching hour.
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Obscure Records That You Think You May Hold (1 Viewer)
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fatness
Footballguy
To settle an argument with my sons (who were around 10 and 12), I put a big hardbound dictionary on my head and walked through every room in our house without it falling (no hands allowed). Our house is small, 8 rooms, but it has 15 steps between floors.
Most rooms entered with dictionary on head: 8
Most stair steps navigated with dictionary on head: 30
I could not do that now. That was back in the prime flathead years of my life.
Most rooms entered with dictionary on head: 8
Most stair steps navigated with dictionary on head: 30
I could not do that now. That was back in the prime flathead years of my life.
Phil Elliott
Footballguy
Trivial and obscure...we won all the coin flips (home and away) on my college football team.
beer 30
Footballguy
For a short time in college, I was into coin snatching. You stack a bunch of coins on your elbow and quickly try to grab the stack with your hand. I think my best was 30 quarters which was a record in my friend circle. The actual world record is 328 coins so I'm not even on the same playing field but in my little world, I was a god!
Real life story, I threw the disc in high school. The school record had stood for 20+ years. My senior year I broke it, was kind of a big deal. Year after I graduate one of the best natural athletes I've ever seen broke it. Think it's stood ever since
Real life story, I threw the disc in high school. The school record had stood for 20+ years. My senior year I broke it, was kind of a big deal. Year after I graduate one of the best natural athletes I've ever seen broke it. Think it's stood ever since
I think my best was around 50. The hard part with that many was actually stacking them on your elbow. I can't imagine how hard stacking 328 coins would be.
Zow
Footballguy
I once urinated 20 times during a round of golf. Small bladder plus keeping a strategic BAC and slower pace of play due to a tournament adds up to a lot of peeing. Played against a urologist who told me by hole 15 to immediately go to the hospital after the round. This was ~ten years ago and my teammate/regular playing partner still talks about it.
"Nobody remembers what I shot but they remember the 20 times you peed!"
"Nobody remembers what I shot but they remember the 20 times you peed!"
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Mookie
Footballguy
I was camping last weekend and was drunkenly eating carrots like a rabbit. Swallowed funny and got up because it gave me this weird tickle in my sinuses. Blew my nose and a bunch of bright orange, chewed up carrots flew out my nose into the tissue. Blew my nose 4 more times over the next 30 minutes, and each time, more chewed up carrots came out. That's got to be a record of some sort.
beer 30
Footballguy
Yea I kinda want to look it up and see it because I can't get my head around it unless they are tiny coins.
Oh and thanks #topper
wlwiles
Footballguy
I have two:
1. At my high school, I still hold the record for most hit-by-pitches in a season (42) and in a career (140). We averaged 30-35 games per season, so better than one per game. I played 1st base, started all 4 years, and my "thing" was that on any pickoff attempt to first I would smash the tag onto the runner HARD. I dunno why I did it, it started off to be funny I guess. My goal was to pop the runner in the back of the head and make their helmet pop off if they dove back to the bag. This earned me lots of hate from opposing teams, so I got plunked on purpose a ton. It got to the point that if we were the visitor, I'd get plunked in the 1st inning before I'd even taken the field because the other team knew me. I'd get warned by the umpire at least every game, but I learned how to do it hard, but not look malicious, and never enough to get ejected.
2. Pretty sure I still hold the record for most prizes won at one of our local radio stations. Every morning one of the local pop/rock stations would do Movie Trivia. Caller #7 wins a prize type thing. I figured out the timing, which was pretty simple actually. At 7 AM, they'd play a promo sound, DJ reads the question, then play a song while they "go to the phones" and find a winner. But they didn't actually take the 7th call, they would just take whoever was on hold first. So I'd have their phone # queued up, wait for the promo sound, then hit dial. I won 3 days in a row before they recognized my name back to back. So then I started calling in and giving my buddies' names. Then my neighbors. Then my cousins'. Etc. Over the course of my junior year of high school I probably won 50+ prizes. CD's, movie tickets, concert tickets, restaurant gift cards, etc.
1. At my high school, I still hold the record for most hit-by-pitches in a season (42) and in a career (140). We averaged 30-35 games per season, so better than one per game. I played 1st base, started all 4 years, and my "thing" was that on any pickoff attempt to first I would smash the tag onto the runner HARD. I dunno why I did it, it started off to be funny I guess. My goal was to pop the runner in the back of the head and make their helmet pop off if they dove back to the bag. This earned me lots of hate from opposing teams, so I got plunked on purpose a ton. It got to the point that if we were the visitor, I'd get plunked in the 1st inning before I'd even taken the field because the other team knew me. I'd get warned by the umpire at least every game, but I learned how to do it hard, but not look malicious, and never enough to get ejected.
2. Pretty sure I still hold the record for most prizes won at one of our local radio stations. Every morning one of the local pop/rock stations would do Movie Trivia. Caller #7 wins a prize type thing. I figured out the timing, which was pretty simple actually. At 7 AM, they'd play a promo sound, DJ reads the question, then play a song while they "go to the phones" and find a winner. But they didn't actually take the 7th call, they would just take whoever was on hold first. So I'd have their phone # queued up, wait for the promo sound, then hit dial. I won 3 days in a row before they recognized my name back to back. So then I started calling in and giving my buddies' names. Then my neighbors. Then my cousins'. Etc. Over the course of my junior year of high school I probably won 50+ prizes. CD's, movie tickets, concert tickets, restaurant gift cards, etc.
Huge richard move and I understand why you were hit every game. If you did it every time and it was your thing there would have been a lot more done to you then just hit you every game. This is very bush league
Dr_Zaius
Footballguy
Back in the day I played a ton of Omni Play Basketball on my Commodore 64. They had a weird statistical mechanic mentioned in the manual called a "hot percentage" that affected the chances of a shot going in, and it would go down with shots that player took. Conversely, open shots by guys who hadn't shot recently had a super high success rate even if they weren't great shooters. I don't know how many others figured this out, but I did and would absolutely destroy my friends (like 150-50 scores with evenly matched teams). I mainly played seasons against the CPU teams, though, which was even more lopsided because I would spam the double teams on everybody but the worst shooting starter, causing that guy to just jack up bricked threes all game.
At one point I upped the difficulty by resetting my whole team with rookies who had a zero rating across the board. I didn't win the championship with that team, but I did somehow have a winning record.
At one point I upped the difficulty by resetting my whole team with rookies who had a zero rating across the board. I didn't win the championship with that team, but I did somehow have a winning record.
zamboni
Footballguy
Yup - didn't realize Will Clark was part of the FFA community.
Brony
Footballguy
Glitch or no glitch version?
wlwiles
Footballguy
This is exactly who I got it from too, as he was my baseball hero growing up. Can't believe someone recognized him for that, nice job Z!
And @Gally - no I didn't do it every time. Didn't do it to every runner. And I really had no intention to be malicious or to be a deliberate richard that I can remember. Somewhere along the way it turned into "if I do this, they'll throw at me and I'll get on base for free" so I kept doing it. I never had a punch thrown at me or anything, at worst they'd call my mother a dirty name. Was it bush league? Sure...i was an idiot teenager. But it's not like I paralyzed some poor freshman every week...
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
A good variation is instead of stacking, line them up on your arm. Can't fit enough to make a big number but looks pretty cool as you do it
nirad3
Footballguy
It's not necessarily a record, and far from official, but back in the day I was the unofficial 8th person to pass The Legend of Zelda on the NES. Back then, Nintendo Power wasn't really even a magazine... it was just a 8-10 page newsletter that you could get for free by being part of the Nintendo Fan Club. When LoZ came out, they told the readers to call their "hotline" when you finished it and they'd publish your name in the newsletter. My buddy finished 7th and I was right behind him. I'm hoping to find a copy of it in some random box in my garage at some point, but I doubt I still have it.
zamboni
Footballguy
When I umpire travel/Little League baseball games, I've seen adult coaches do that for a lot longer when they don't like a call.
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
Some may have equaled, but I doubt that any have surpassed my feat of having seen two Star Trek captains play Othello.
At least they can't be yelling at you while they are holding their breath. Probably a nice change of pace....haha
zamboni
Footballguy
Yup, now who’s blue, blue?
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Not familiar with the glitch
rockaction
Footballguy
Not sure if they both played the Shakespeare character or if they squared off in a vicious parlor game of strategy and markers.
