HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR DAYS?
A Frenchman spent eight long years meticulously building a 23-foot-tall Eiffel Tower using 700,000 matchsticks, only to be outright rejected by the Guinness World Records due to an unconventional reason.
https://luxurylaunches.com/other_stuff/02-07-2024-man-builds-eiffel-tower-from-matchsticks.php
And Morning Brew's opening...
Good morning. We’ve all been there—you work tirelessly on a project only to have it spiked at the last minute by your boss.
But the plight of Richard Plaud might be on another level. The Frenchman spent eight years creating a 23.6-foot model Eiffel Tower out of 700,000+ matchsticks to set the record for tallest matchstick sculpture.
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But last week, Guinness Book of World Records disqualified it because the matchsticks he used weren’t commercially available. Guinness acknowledged its decision may have been “heavy-handed” and will review the judgment.
Still, Plaud threw shade at London-based Guinness, writing, “Clearly, the English are really different.......” Which is exactly what we thought when they first created a book of people with long fingernails.
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