Noted & quoted.'I'm happy and proud that I can get Turkey in the record book, even if it's for milk squirting.' --Ilker Yitmaz, 28, who hopes to be recognized by Guinness World Records for snorting 'snorting' Substance abuse A popular method for consuming cocaine and opiates–one nostril is held closed, the other inhales pulverized cocaine. See Cocaine, Crack. milk up his nose and squirting it 9.2 feet out of his left eye, due to an anomaly in his tear gland Noun 1. tear gland - any of the glands in the eyes that secrete tears lachrymal gland, lacrimal gland duct gland, exocrine, exocrine gland - a gland that secretes externally through a duct . (Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , Sept. 2) 'It's my extreme sport, and I don't even have to wear a helmet.' --A.J. Jacobs, 36, of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , on reading the Encyclopedia Britannica's 32 volumes, 33,000 pages, and 44 million words. He wrote a book about it: The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. [USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. , Sept. 2] 'Nighttime is the worst. I can only sleep two or three hours, since scorpions get so active at night.' --Malaysian Nur Malena Hassan, 27, on trying to beat a world record for the longest time living with scorpions. She hopes to share a 10-by-12-foot room with 6,000 scorpions for 36 days. (Associated Press, Aug. 25) |
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