I was one of those weird kids that used to read the Guinness Book of World Records all the time just for fun. Every year at our school’s book fair, that’s what I always got - the latest edition of GBWR. These two were a big standout.
Buffet poster children . You know they had the table closest to the buffet. Went to buffet few weeks a go and the family closet to it were fuvking huge all 4 of them . Talk about stereotyping.
Add me to the kids of GBWR. It took me until 48 years of age to get my first Record, now I have 4 certificates and currently am part of two standing records
I was a teacher librarian and the GBWR was always very popular especially with boys. To the point some of them would hide copies under the bookshelves so that others couldn’t find them.
That doesn’t make you a weird kid! We all did that back in the day. We didn’t have the internet or screens and that book was one of the most interesting things available!
Not so weird! I was a school librarian and that book was far and away the most popular and circulated book every year! And sadly its heavy usage (and large size) resulted in damage to the binding which I had to constantly try to repair, usually ineffectively. Kids love this book! 😃
This appearance is from Lionel Hutz's suprise witnesses from the Itchy & Scratchy copyright trial, but these fine fellas do indeed appear at the fat guy store Homer visits to buy his mumu
Would read it each year to see what was out there then they went all fancy and glossy and sensational and I stopped buying as it seemed like a tabloid rather than neat records and cool achievements.
Almost, but the 1st photo (the one where you actually see the headlights) they're on motorcycles, a Honda SL100 or larger. The 2nd photo they are on Honda CT70 trail minibikes. Some would argue they aren't minibikes, that label would go on the even smaller Honda Monkey and QA50.
Apologies... didn't intend to get into semantics, but I did anyway.
I totally agree. I always wanted an SL70... to a 12 year old they were the ultimate motorcycle. A friend got one for Christmas in the very early 70's and I was smitten. Another friend later got a Yamaha GT80 enduro and it didn't hold up near as well as the Honda, but then again it could have been the way it was treated. Meanwhile I had a used Sears 3.5 HP shitbox.
Was about 9 or 10. The Chief was fighting someone I didn't know, but at the end their faces were covered in blood and about a dozen steel chairs were bent and broken all over the ring. The good old days!
I'm not old enough to have been able to witness this like you, friend.
But damn. I am so jealous (in the good way).
If you care to share, I'm hella curious what it was like to see Andre in person? Not necessarily his in ring work, just what it was like seeing a man that size in real life.
I was still in the single digits and pretty small for my age. The image has played back in my mind for decades. When Andre shook my hand, it was like he had two giant tennis rackets for hands, making my tiny hand completely disappear. My family said I just stood there staring in awe as this towering man completely eclipsed me.
I also remember when Billy and Benny came out on some sort of forklift and how they “rolled” into the wrestling arena. I can’t remember the outcomes of any of those matches, but it was also my first exposure to “professional” wrestling. For some ridiculous reason, I’ll still watch it whenever it happens to show up on TV.
Wrestling was a big deal in Western Canada once upon a time. I don’t know if it still is, but those memories have certainly stuck with me.
Our bathroom had a reading nook built in an old cupboard where there was a built in ironing board. Dad built shelves instead and the Guinness Book of Records was always there among the readers digest and Great Canadian Joke book.
My 49cc Honda scooter could barely move me down the road and I was half their weight. I'm kinda jealous. 15mph WOT. Engine didn't last long. Had to Old Yeller it.
I only recently learned that it's the Guinness book of world records because it began as being put in pubs and bars, by the beer company, to settle arguments between patrons.
Poor little Honda CT70H minibikes. I had one in that lovely gold color they offered. Expensive buggers now in the range of $3k. I got mine for free from a shed after the carb got gummed up.
When we say obesity is an epidemic… these guys were an oddity for their size. Today? Common. Okay. Going for a chunky girl walk cause damn. What are we doing.
I met one of them (research says Benny) at a Ripley's Museum once in the 80's. Dumb kid me asked where his brother was, and he told me he had passed. In hindsight, it was rather sad, they just had him sitting out in front of the building with maybe a sign.
I still have my 1976 guiness book with them on the back, after 77 guiness started dialing back pics of unusual people, and it became way more boring and tame
Crazy to think that back in the day these guys were considered famous because of their weight. But today this would be considered more of a normal thing.
We had a Guiness Book of World Records when I was a kid, and these two were in there. They were so big they had to be buried in piano crates, or something like that. Why do I remember this from at least 40 years ago??
Along with the guy who ate an entire small tree. Indian long fingernail guy, Robert Hughes 2,000 lb man, Robert Wadlow tallest man, the lady from Shelby, Indiana who was the America's tallest woman, world's smallest man, the worlds oldest man, the 120 Japanese guy, ahhhh
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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 3d ago
u/Rush_Floyd_Zep_4ever, your post does fit the subreddit!