Off-Topic Guinness Book of Records: Beer, Arguments

[Steve Freides]

For your Sunday morning edification:

The "Guinness Book of Records" was created to settle arguments in pubs.

In 1954, Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, began research on a new book of records meant to help settle pub arguments. The idea stemmed from a bird hunting expedition Beaver took in 1951, during which he and other guests debated about the fastest game bird. Unable to...

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[Don Fairbanks]

For your Sunday morning edification:

The "Guinness Book of Records" was created to settle arguments in pubs.

In 1954, Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, began research on a new book of records meant to help settle pub arguments. The idea stemmed from a bird hunting expedition Beaver took in 1951, during which he and other guests debated about the fastest game bird. Unable to...

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Loved that book. Used to get it every year as a Christmas gift way back in the day.

 

[LukeV]

Back in the pre internet era every good pub had a dictionary, thesaurus and the Guinness Book of World Records

 

[Chris Mills]

One learns something every day....., and one never knows wherefrom or about what (sort of by definition, I guess). Thanks!

 

[metaldrummer]

I like how they used to celebrated the most morbidly obese someone could be. Too bad the PC people messed it all up. You would think as much as they celebrate lardos like Lizzo that they wouldn't have a problem with it.

 

[Essexman]

As a child I used to watch a TV show called Record Breakers. They would have people come on and try to beat world records, it was great. The brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter were regulars on the show, absolute gents who could recall different world record facts and figures off the top of their heads in an instant.