Popeye?
Time to lighten things up around here again.
A.P.: RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Claudio Paulo Pinto is looking to break an eye-popping record. Literally. Pinto can pop his eyeballs out of their sockets at least 7 millimeters (0.3 inches), a national record for eye-popping according to RankBrasil, an organization modeled after the Guinness Book of World Records that lists Brazilian records.
A former driver, Pinto got a job scaring visitors in a commercial haunted house in Belo Horizonte, 210 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. But he recently was laid off, and now he seeks international recognition for his ability.
"I was measured by an opthamologist on television in January. I could pop my eyes out 7 millimeters," Pinto said by telephone Saturday. "Since then, my capacities have improved over 50 percent."
That could put Pinto close to the record. The title of "furthest eyeball popper" in the Guinness Book of World Records currently belongs to Kim Goodman of Chicago, who can pop her eyeballs 11 milimeters (0.43 inches) out of her sockets.
Pinto's ability is called "globe luxation." Doctors say it can strain blood vessels and nerves between the eyes and the head and feels unpleasant but usually doesn't cause lasting damage.
Pinto says he's been luxating his globes since he was 9 years old and "it doesn't hurt a bit."
Maybe he's just been eating the wrong spinach...
A.P.: RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Claudio Paulo Pinto is looking to break an eye-popping record. Literally. Pinto can pop his eyeballs out of their sockets at least 7 millimeters (0.3 inches), a national record for eye-popping according to RankBrasil, an organization modeled after the Guinness Book of World Records that lists Brazilian records.
A former driver, Pinto got a job scaring visitors in a commercial haunted house in Belo Horizonte, 210 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. But he recently was laid off, and now he seeks international recognition for his ability.
"I was measured by an opthamologist on television in January. I could pop my eyes out 7 millimeters," Pinto said by telephone Saturday. "Since then, my capacities have improved over 50 percent."
That could put Pinto close to the record. The title of "furthest eyeball popper" in the Guinness Book of World Records currently belongs to Kim Goodman of Chicago, who can pop her eyeballs 11 milimeters (0.43 inches) out of her sockets.
Pinto's ability is called "globe luxation." Doctors say it can strain blood vessels and nerves between the eyes and the head and feels unpleasant but usually doesn't cause lasting damage.
Pinto says he's been luxating his globes since he was 9 years old and "it doesn't hurt a bit."
Maybe he's just been eating the wrong spinach...
13 Comments:
Wow, that's a real eye opener before 6:00 a.m. Thanks, Jack.
YIKES!
Funny stuff. Where do you find these things?
Now, that's talent!
There's a Guiness Book of World Records entry for just about everything, now...
That happens to me involuntarily when viewing certain members of the female gender.........
How utterly disgusting...maybe "Popeye" got ahold of some of that contaminated spinach! Btw, I can cross one eye at a time. We all have our talents...
MargeinMI:
"YIKES!" is a good description.
Maggie:
Juan Valdez after too much coffee, perhaps.
boberin:
I find 'em on "da 'Net", of course!
Beerme:
Anything for those "15 minutes of fame", huh?
Kajun:
Actually, I like spinach...especially creamed spinach.
Libby Gone™:
I hear that, brother!!!
'da Bunny:
Yeah, it's pretty gross...anyway, eating the wrong spinach was what the last link was about.
onlineanalyst:
Barney Google (founder of the search engine by the same name?) had those "goo-goo-googly eyes", according to the song...
ALL IN FAVOR?...
THE EYES HAVE IT!
Hawkeye®:
Those eyes have something, all right.
Maggie:
Eye, eye, eye...
You all crack me up! Thanks Jack, we needed that.
Everyone got it out of their system yet?
MargeinMI:
You're quite welcome...any time.
Maggie:
Nor eye. :-)
Kajun:
It really does, yes...
darth_meister:
Distance themselves?! Nah, people like those embrace that low-life Chavez...like Cindy She-Hag.
Or is that Sea Hag???
Uck, uck, uck, uck!
Yeesh!
benning:
That's all I can stands...I can't stands no more!!!
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