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I don't understand this fascination with records. There are some that are worth setting, but for the most part, who gives a flying fuck?

Good gawd people. If you spent as much time doing something useful as you do setting dumb ass records, maybe we would have eliminated AIDS, cancer, Altzheimers AND "Global Warming ™" by now.

Oh well. Who am I to judge?

From the "Get A Life" department:

Man eats 21 pounds of grits for title

AP - Sun Sep 30, 1:18 AM ET

BOSSIER CITY, La. - He'll never want breakfast again.
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Groovy. Lard ass.

Pa. man skips stone a record 51 times

AP - Sun Sep 30, 6:22 PM ET

FRANKLIN, Pa. - A Pennsylvania man cast a stone that skipped on water a whopping 51 times, shattering the old world record of 40.
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Yeah, that's a useful talent.

World's most boring TV show to measure energy use

Reuters - Tue Oct 2, 8:26 AM ET

GENEVA (Reuters) - Television manufacturers and broadcasters have produced what may be the world's most boring TV programme to measure energy consumption on new-generation televisions, an energy standards group said on Tuesday.
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Most likely another one of the usual sit-coms.

But here's the most useless of all:

Clinton raises $22 million, bests Obama

AP - 1 hour, 48 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton raised $22 million this summer for her presidential primary campaign, outpacing all other candidates so far with her best three-month showing of the year.
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