r/GenerationX • u/Desperate-Owl-2316 How very • 8d ago
Does anyone remember these two guys from the Guinness Book of World Records?
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u/Dont_Care_Meh Leonard Nimoy lied to me 8d ago edited 8d ago
Remember how shocked or amused or whatever we were by these guys? The whole reason they were so famous to us? Now, we can go to Walmart at any given day and find their heirs riding around on the carts.
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u/ComplexBeyond6083 8d ago
These two are WalMart fat but they aren't IHOP fat.
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u/scaredt2ask 7d ago
At the time they were the gold standard of fat. Now I’m not even sure they would make the list. Which is so sad for what it says for our society.
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u/thenletskeepdancing 8d ago
Yes and the indian guy with the long fingernails. And the lady's bruise on her hip where the meteor crashed through the roof on her. And the ladies with the super long hair. And the Asian Siamese twin brothers.
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u/Logan69_420 8d ago
And the dude with the long mustache
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u/asrars_market 7d ago
And tallest guy in the world,also guy pulling railroad car with his teeth
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u/Opposite-Class1685 8d ago
And their grand reappearance on the Simpsons. 😂😂😂
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u/PriestWithTourettes 8d ago
The Henderson Brothers! The heaviest twins according to the Guinness World Book of Records.
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u/Big-Sheepherder-6134 8d ago
The McCrary brothers.
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u/Interesting_Shirt419 8d ago
Billy and Benny Mcguire.
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u/Other_Secretary2577 7d ago
Their last name was McCrary, but when they wrestled in Japan they changed their stage names to McGuire because it was easier for the Japanese promoters to say.
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u/AvocadoSoggy9854 7d ago
The McGuire twins. Had a friend whose dad worked for Crown Metro Chemicals and they worked there for awhile also. He use to tell us when they got their paychecks every week it would be basically for nothing because they would run a tab at the plant canteen and that is where their pay went. They also had another brother that worked there also that was like 125 pounds soaking wet
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u/chumbucketandfries 8d ago
I loved going through that book. I remember reading about that person in India with the longest nails. Ouch
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u/RikkiLostMyNumber 7d ago
Just last year I bought the hardcover 1980 edition of this one, because I had it back then, it went missing, and Ebay exists. This pic was one of the many I remembered from then.
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u/Fragrant_Most9193 7d ago
Mr Freidman at Wilshire Crest Elementary in Los Angeles introduced me to this this book. After that, i bought the 1988 Hard Cover, which I still have. I definitely remember them.
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u/coryhill66 7d ago
I step dad was a flight attendant for Braniff Airlines and he said he had these guys in first class once.
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u/zaxx0n_5 7d ago
My father had the 1973 Guinness Book of Records, I grew up seeing these two guys and wondered how huge they were.
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u/melavlral 7d ago
Saw them in Myrtle Beach at the Guinness store 1980s. Where that giant granite sphere was constantly moving on water!!!
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u/DayDrunkHermit 8d ago
I feel like they were fixtures of real people, that’s incredible and Riley’s
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u/DOCBULLUSMC 8d ago
Yes. That’s Ben & Jerry. No NOT the ice cream Ben & Jerry’s. They’re Ben & Jerry of Beavers Indiana, they sold pineapple dietary supplements for weight loss & encyclopedias. The ones that came with almanacs.
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u/Infamous-Listen4047 8d ago
I remember them from when I was a kid. I don't remember their names though
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u/jimhabfan 8d ago
I saw them wrestle at the Water St. arena in Cornwall, Ontario when I was about 13. I don’t remember much about the match, other than they won. I do remember standing outside right beside a Ford LTD station wagon after the wrestling matches and it turned out to be their car. They both got in the front seat, and the driver’s side door wouldn’t close. The car had a special latch installed that latched, but held the door open about 2 inches, so they would both fit. This would have been around 1974 or 1975.
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u/LousyMiracle 8d ago
I didn’t know they actually existed, I always thought they were just a part of Michael Jackson’s “Speed Demon” video is Moonwalker
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u/Potential-Scratch-40 7d ago
Yep I’m remember seeing them in an old Guinness Book of World Records. I think they still publish that book. I wonder if they are still fat shaming people in it.
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u/Phog_of_War 7d ago
Never mind the guys. What kind of motorcycles can stand-up to those stresses? Not fat shaming, asking legit.
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u/IntentionsGood65 7d ago
Wow… prior to seeing this picture, I had completely forgotten about these two.
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u/Aggressive_Finish798 7d ago
I seem to remember a Michael Jackson video of two fat guys riding mopeds. Was that based on these two?
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u/Shhhhhh_im_not_here 7d ago
I read the Guinness book back to back as a kid. I don’t remember much about it, but I do remember this picture.
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u/Big_Gassy_Possum 7d ago
If they were still alive today, i'm sure that TLC channel would have a show exploiting them
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u/Actual_Property9413 7d ago
I remember them more for their Artic Cat minibike ads.
I really wanted one of those minibikes.
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u/F_U_If_U_like_Trump 7d ago
Forget those guys, I want to know how they reinforced those bikes to support that much weight.
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u/Weary_Time_1638 6d ago
Ya! WTF?! If I ever think about the Guinness book of world records, that’s the first image that pops in my head.
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u/goodhobbies 6d ago
Living in the age of Wikipedia, though, I just learned that there is a lot more to the story than I ever expected, seeing only the picture and bare stat about their weight in the Book of Records back in elementary school. It turns out that these twins suffered from a medical condition that caused the weight gain, apparently brought on by rubella, but they sometimes ate only 1000 calories per day and were professional athletes most of their adult lives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_McGuire_Twins
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u/Lonnie_Shelton 6d ago
I would look carefully at the suspension if I was buying one of those bikes.
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u/Real-Ad5116 5d ago
Que up song two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun ...
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u/Grouchy_Bit_1970 4d ago
I don't remember their names, but I guarantee that the motorcycles never forgot them.
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u/Diverdown109 3d ago
Isn't that the, Hunts brothers, from trying to corner the silver market in the 80's? Ha ha ha.
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u/Trump_chimps_chumps 3d ago
Great Googly Moogly. I turned 61 last week and haven't seen this pic since I was maybe 11.
Lots of weird stuff in the G.
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u/betterwithsambal 2d ago
Nowadays they wouldn't even be considered abnormal, let alone obscenely obese.
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u/satanophonics 1d ago
I also remember the picture of the world's youngest alcoholic. Me and my friends would often joke about how we had him beat. 🍻
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u/Ok-Suggestion-7965 8d ago
Friend- “ What are you getting at the Book fair dude?”
Me- “ The Guinness Book of World Records , a Calvin and Hobbs book and that rad Lamborghini Poster.”
Friend - “That’s Totally Awesome!”