This is quite an old piece of news...but still pretty ridiculous.
Mangalore University Applied Botany Professor Annaiah Ramesh is all set to enter the Guinness Book of World Records as he successfully completed a marathon lecture, running to 96 hours and 40 minutes, here on Sunday. Dr Ramesh who started his lecture on the subject, "Molecular Logic of Life," on March 22, completed it at 03:45 hrs on Sunday, surpassing the record set by South African Moosawazi (88 hours and 4 seconds). Dr Ramesh, who delivered the non-stop lecture at the jampacked Old Senate Hall in the varsity without any teaching aids on the subject, had originally wanted to complete 101 hours.
This must have been terribly boring - I wonder if anyone actually sat through the entire thing?
Why do people do this type of thing?
The 15 minutes of fame that this type of record doesn't buy you a great deal of respect and certainly wouldn't lead to loads of money. It's almost as bad as going on the Real World. Would you go on the Real World? I'd be terribly embarrassed!
Comments
Maybe there's an Guiness listing for longest time listening to a lecture.
Posted by: John McKay | December 19, 2006 12:55 AM
you would think it would be with this lecture - eh... whatever..haha.
Posted by: steve | December 19, 2006 7:28 AM
The only reason I would go on real world is to make fun of the rest of the participants on the show and/or to educate them and the viewers. But that's not reason enough.
Posted by: Katherine | December 19, 2006 8:21 AM