B-List

(or: Stuffing Your Face with a Crowd of People Watching)

1. "Competitors who are all heart(burn)"
   <http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2005/01/26/opinion/iq_3342312.txt>
"On Saturday, competitive eaters battled for $9,000 in prize money - and
 the nearest bottle of antacid - as they devoured a burger heavier than a
 newborn baby"

2. "Kobayashi wins hot dog eating contest, again"
   <http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040704-032734-8158r.htm>
"For the fourth year, Kobayashi was named the world's top hot dog eater for
 eating 53-and-a-half hot dogs in 12 minutes"

3. "Seven-stone woman crowned wing-eating champ"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_861353.html>
"A seven-stone woman has beaten a 29-stone challenger by munching her way
 through 167 chicken wings in 32 minutes"

4. "Iron-stomached Norwegian gulps down oyster record"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200309/s940545.htm>
"A Norwegian man has annihilated the world record for eating oysters by
 downing a stomach-churning 187 of the slippery molluscs in three minutes
 before polishing off a few pints of Guinness"

5. "Competitive 'eater' sets nibbling challenge"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1101449.htm>
"To mark the premiere of a film about his life as a competitive eater,
 Crazy Legs Conti is trying to eat his way out of a telephone booth-size
 structure filled with popcorn"

6. "Redskins lineman wins eating contest"
   <http://www.benmaller.com/archives/2004/december/
       02-redskins_lineman_wins_eating_contest.html>
"Thomas, who is 6 feet 5 and weighs 306 pounds, ate six pounds of food,
 beating a 60-minute deadline, at Chubby's Barbecue in Emmitsburg, Md"

7. International Federation of Competitive Eating - IFOCE
   <http://www.ifoce.com/>
A site dedicated to the "sport" of competitive eating, including:
* IFOCE List of Records
   <http://www.ifoce.com/records.php>

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Latest update to my gardening blog:
   <http://bruno-orto.blogspot.com/2005/01/return-of-shadecloths.html>