Takeru Kobayashi of Japan achieved an unprecedented fourth victory at the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, setting a new world record of 53.5 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes.

The event, which was broadcast live as part of an hour-long show on ESPN, attracted more than 5,000 fans to the corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

Nobuyuki Shirota of Japan placed second with 38 hot dogs and buns and American Sonya Thomas placed third with 32, a new American record. Rich LeFevre of Nevada put in an enormous performance, placing fourth with 27 3/4. Eric Booker and Cookie Jarvis tied for fifth with 27.

Personal bests were notched by Carlene LeFevre with 22, Jim Reeves of Buffalo, NY, with 21, Joe LaRue of Florida with 20 and Allan Goldstein of Plainview, NY, with 19.

Abraham Jeremy

She's in Mean Girls? Oh, I'm SOOO watching that movie now.

And then there's THIS.

tay she was in mean girls, which i saw a few weeks ago at gateway cinema..... she was aight, however she paled in comparison to the blossoming beauty of teenage temptress lindsay lohan..... shit her tits are poppin.... rachel mcadams was pretty hot in that movie too, but i paid my $6 for one reason, no wait two reasons, and both were on lohans chest

BTW- whatever happened to that hotty in Lost In Space/Party of 5 anyway?

Heheh

Matt?

I disagree to an extent. While our weather this last week has been MORE extreme than usual, we shouldn't be surprised by such extremes. It was only a few years ago when we had a blizzard going into august, and it's not like we've never had huge hailstorms before... or for that matter tornados. Lest you forget.

But I'm not sure why I'm defending this argument because it's not what I meant in the first place. What I was saying was in response to the quote that was something like "freezing winters, 40 degree summers" or whatever. I was just saying that we've historically ALWAYS had freezing winters and near-40 degree days during the summers. I'm just saying people toss around terms like "global warming" far too easily and use it as a scapegoat for ANY weather they don't find agreeable.

Shit, when I was in grade 1, during the winters I remember school used to get snowed out and when you finally DID get back to school, the snow was piled twice the height of your head. Granted I was a lot smaller back then...

ah, whatever. fuck it. Who cares?

SWhoa, drinks, just what I was thinking. Wouldn't it be really cool to drink myself into a stupor and somehow take a pill that would neutralize it's effects whenever I wished? Hell, I'm there already. Maybe in reverse.

I heard there's a new version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the works.



Best Willy Wonka EVER!

taylor, i reserve judgement on the whole global warming issue, but u definitely cant call this weather normal... i was driving to my grandparents house for supper last night and the whitemud westbound was at a stand still heading towards the quenell bridge..... i knew there was a storm, but i just said fuck this, went down fox drive cuz there were no cars in that lane, to do a uturn and get onto the whitemud by merging off of fox... at the lights on fox i saw a massive puddle on the road to fort ed, and there was a car trapped in it that was half submerged..... i got onto quenell, and there was only one lane with traffic getting through, the rest were clogged up with one or two feet of hail.... there was no east bound traffic, just a couple of people walking down the road in the middle of the lanes... i went down 149th, but the traffic was clogged up because of all the cars exiting off the whitemud.... i went down some backstreets and had to turn around 3 or 4 times because so many of the streets were completely submerged.... i dont know about global warming, but this defintiely isnt normal edmonton weather, the paper called it a one-in-two-hundred-years storm