 | Quote: |  | | | | | | | | | | SARANAC, N.Y. - A bushy brow landed Frank Ames in the Guinness Book of World Records, but not before a new entry was created for him. The 43-year-old upstate New York man now holds the world record for having the longest eyebrow hair, measured just over 3 inches.
"I don't know why it grows like that; it just always has," Ames told the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh.
Ames' journey toward notoriety began almost two years ago when a co-worker at Bombardier Corp. noticed the lengthy brow and suggested Ames try for a record.
When Ames decided to go for it, he discovered that no such category existed. So, he called Guinness and got the rules for official recognition.
Ken Joy, a machinist at Bombardier, measured the hair in February 2004 with Plattsburgh Mayor Daniel Stewart and other city officials standing by as witnesses.
Ames' record appears in the 2006 edition of the record book, in the "Body Parts" section.
"It's crazy how much people want to know about this," Ames said Tuesday. "I've been on radio shows all day. I could build children's hospitals all across the world, and this is what I would still be known for." | |  | |  | |
So I've found that most rubber bands when pulled together (without stretching) so the band forms a line, rather than a circle, is approximately 3".
Now class, take the ends of that rubber band and hold one up to one of your eyebrows.
Now you have a practical representation of this mutant's record setting hair.
Something to think about today.
24-August-05, 07:12 AM
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