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Guinness Book of World Records
Most Books Typed Backwards
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| Michele Santelia |
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67 books
(3,503,013 words, 19,760,936 characters , 23.198 pages, 263,931 paragraphs, 499,554 lines) |
| WHERE: |
| Campobasso, Italy |
| WHEN: |
| November 16, 2008 |
Using a computer and four blank keyboards, and without looking at the screen, Michele Santelia (Italy) typed backwards 67 books (3,503,013 words, 19,760,936 characters, 23.198 pages, 263,931 paragraphs, 499,554 lines) in their original languages including The Odyssey, Macbeth, The Vulgate Bible, the Guinness World Records Book 2002, and the Dead Sea scrolls in Ancient Hebrew. Michele put together a 4.05 metre (13ft 12in) high tower of the books typed. He completed typing backwards Etruscan scripts in Etruscan Language and The Million in Ancient Chinese on 16 November 2008.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Alaska
You can see many animals in Alaska.
Some large animals, like the caribou, live
in groups, and you can see hundreds of
them. You can also see other large animals,
such as moose and deer. There are also
bears and wolves. These animals are not
really dangerous. If you stay away from
them, they will stay away from you. They
are afraid of people. Sometimes the wild
animals come to places with people. You
can see deer or moose, for example, in
Someone’s garden. The children and the
tourists get happy, but it's a problem for
Alaskan gardeners because these animals
like to eat the plants in gardens, and they
walk all over the grass and flowers.
A lot of people in Alaska have got pets and
work animals at home, too. Dogs are the
Favourites, especially huskies. The Eskimos
used these dogs to pull sleds in the winter.
Many Alaskans now keep huskies and go
dog sledding as a sport. There are
competitions for the most beautiful dogs
and the strongest dogs. Of course, there are
dogsled races, too.
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funny as a rubber crutch
unfunny
Your joke was about as funny as a rubber crutch! |
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to mix something up
to confuse two or more things
Tanya sometimes mixes the names of her grandchildren up. |
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Funny Answering Machine Recordings
Hi. Thank you for calling 217-2962. If you wish to speak to Tim, push 1 on your touch tone phone now. If you wish to speak to Lynn, push 2 on your touch tone phone now. If you have a wrong number, push 3 on your touch tone phone now. All of this button pushing doesn't do anything, but it is a good way to work off anger, and it makes us feel like we have a big time phone system. His is John's answering machine. He's not here, but I'm open to suggestions.
I'm pretending that I'm marooned on a desert island with Dana Delany, Linda Carter, and Sharon Lawrence. Since I don't have a telephone there, you could leave a message in a bottle at the sound of the beep, and maybe it'll wash up on my beach in a few days. Then if the professor gets stranded here, we'll create a satellite uplink from a few coconuts and a palm leaf and I'll get right back to you.
I'm not at home today, and I might not be home tomorrow. So please leave a message after the tone. I didn't take a shower today, and I might not take one tomorrow. So if you don't leave a message after the tone, you might have to deal with me in person.
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