Guinness Buch der Rekorde 1999

Guinness World Records

by Guinness World Records (Editor), Hans Kettwig (Editor)

The unmatched authoritative collection of world class facts, figures and feats from around the globe. This newly revised 2000 edition contains in depth reports, incredible photographs, fascinating features, wacky record attempts, and information for hopeful record-breakers. A survey of the world's most extraordinary human achievements and natural phenomena, this astounding collection will continue to entertain millions.

Including exciting new records as seen on the amazing TV series Guinness World RecordsTM: Primetime!

The must-have, fun-to-read guide to every amazing fact, figure, and feat for the dawn of the new millennium!

From the fastest car to the most recently discovered element, from the wonders of nature to the wild world of extreme sports, Guinness World Records is the undisputed authority for every record that's worth knowing--fastest, tallest, smallest, most expensive--with photos to back them up!

Read about it here:

The hotel that's rebuilt completely--every year: the igloo that sleeps up to 150 guests!
Rush pizza delivery--in 9 hours: the New Zealand pizza parlor that airlifts pies to Antarctica!
Space--the final resting place: the mass funeral that launched the ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry into orbit!

The world's most popular reference book

Incredible new knowledge section
More sports records than ever
Entertainment, medical, Internet, and crime records

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Trivia, History

288 pages

First published December 12, 1951

About the author

Guinness World Records™, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records, is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book series of all time. It is also one of the most frequently stolen books from public libraries in the United States

Reviews

[lorem_ipsumerian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Who could forget 1999, the year before I wish Y2K had happened? I was reminded of Y2k by my penchant for watching past and present clips of late night talk shows on internet. Kyle Mooney's been making the rounds, a comedic presence I'm supposed to find funny, like Bo Burnham, due to what most people would perceive as similar levels of white male autism.

That's so cool, Kyle Mooney, guy previously on terrible sketch comedy show, i.e. all of sketch comedy; you still exist, and you've directed your first movie, a reminder that A24 horror films replaced Marvel movies as the United States' greatest export, aside from world domination. Zombie depictions of the inevitable post-apocalypse American capitalism will create? What is this, Y2K? Give me Everything Everywhere All At Once, a fancy way of saying I'm an advanced consumer of TV Tropes.

I'll be honest: I haven't read The Guinness Book of World Records (1999) since it came out. But who are you to handwave away the many childhood poops I spent realizing everyone has a special talent that can be ranked against other people with the same talent? It's a shame age of consent laws stifled the record all young men wish they could claim: the most masturbatory orgasms achieved in 24 hours. Woke culture makes it impossible for a corporate structure to measure this important ranking of Calcium deficiency.

Only 90s kids will hear the Guinness World Records Fox television show theme song in their head while reading this sentence. Remember the black woman who could make her eyeballs extra big? That was back in our day, before the average person consumed hundreds of daily videos made by a schizophrenic cacophony of all the world's voices yelling concurrently. Have you seen the Vice documentary about her from the 2010s? I bet it exists.

What's your take on 2024 Meme Cycle number 97? Let me know in the comments. Please don't. That's a callback to season 4 episode 5 of "My Show, Also My Life," episode title "Presently Distant," airing indefinitely, on internet, for as long as this all keeps going @ www.myshowalsomylife.com

[Troy · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are one of my favorite books. I think this would be good for kids to read because it's fun and cool to see what crazy things people have accomplished.

[Stephen Paul Chase, Jr. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love world records!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gustavo Garcia II · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Guinness Book of World records is an awesome peace of informational text for children. It gives them an opportunity to learn about the wonders and achievements in this world. Every child should have a chance to see and read through this fascinating book. It can even be a subject for social studies lesson plans.

[Amairami Perez · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is really fun to read. Although it is an old book it is still fun to read. And all of the records from that time have probably already been broken. it is still cool and fun to read how people were back then. I recommend this book to people who like to read about people and what amazing things they can do.

[Book Addict Shaun · Rating 5 out of 5]

Think this was the first GWR I received one Christmas and have had every other one since. Love the fact that they can be picked up and opened to any page and you will learn something new. I also think this is the one that has the picture of Freddy Kreuger which used to terrify me.

[André · Rating 3 out of 5]

The older versions were much better... this one prefers overly large pictures over actual text.

[Christøpher Es · Rating 5 out of 5]

I only have one copy. I insisted my mother buy it for me.


Mario is in this one.