102.3 Blake FM » guinness book of world records http://1023blakefm.com Plays New Country Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:51:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 World Record – And 850 Mattresses – Falls In New Orleans http://1023blakefm.com/world-record-and-850-mattresses-falls-in-new-orleans/ http://1023blakefm.com/world-record-and-850-mattresses-falls-in-new-orleans/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:00:57 +0000 Dave Diamond http://lonestar1023.com/?p=83530 Have you ever set up your dominoes in rows and patterns just so you could knock the first one over and watch the rest fall? That's the general idea of what went "down" in New Orleans the other day. But instead of dominoes, they used mattresses and people.

The whole thing was a stunt to raise funds to fight  homelessness, but in the process they set the Guiness World Record for human mattress domino tipping.

Click through to see the 850 people and their mattresses fall in one fell swoop.

]]> http://1023blakefm.com/world-record-and-850-mattresses-falls-in-new-orleans/feed/ 0 World's Oldest Couple Marries After 30-Year Wait http://1023blakefm.com/worlds-oldest-couple-marries-after-30-year-wait/ http://1023blakefm.com/worlds-oldest-couple-marries-after-30-year-wait/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 23:52:13 +0000 Frank Seres http://lonestar1023.com/?p=3790 About 30 years ago, Rose Pollard -- now 90 -- was proposed to by her ballroom dancing partner, Forrest Lunway. Instead of saying yes, though, Pollard told Lunway that she'd marry him only after he hit the big 100.

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