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  1. New GWR for Longest Handrolled Cigar in the World - 196 ft 3 in!!! Congratulations Wallace & Margarita Reyes!!
  2. I'll be blogging the trip so click on "Out & About with Clackers" on our website homepage for the story...ay caramba!!
  3. See what I did there?
  4. I'm bringing along a 200 ft long tape measure just in case...I mean, wow. Reyes is gonna smoke all the previous record holders...
  5. Pero que grande esta eso!!!!
  6. On Saturday Nov 21 Reyes & Co want to roll a 180 ft long cigar...one-hundred-and-eighty-feet!! Ay Dios Mio!!!
  7. Wallace Reyes had it before Pena with a 101 ft cigar. Wallace is going for it again this weekend...how long this time?
  8. Cairo took it from Patricio Pena from Puerto Rico who broke the record in Feb 2007 with a 135 ft cigar.
  9. The current record is held by Castelar Cairo with a cigar measuring 148 ft in length, he's held it since May 2008.
  10. Since then the record seems to have been going back and forth between the USA, Puerto Rico and Cuba...it's an international phenomenon!
  11. Back then the record was a 36 ft long cigar, hand rolled by Jose Castelar Cairo in Havana...
  12. I remember accepting a claim for this way back in 2001 when I found a very official package on my desk in London from Cuba...
  13. I'm off to Tampa Bay, Florida tomorrow for a Guinness World Record I've always wanted to judge...the world's longest cigar!
  14. And done! Largest Cup of Hot Chocolate, 4 gallons of chocolate heaven in celebration of GWR Day 2009!
  15. Yikes, the cup used for GWR Day's Largest Hot Chocolate is 14 inches wide and 11 inches tall...gulp!
  16. All done to celebrate Guinness World Records Day on Nov 12th 2009 - check out all the fun by going to our website!
  17. Off to verify the world's largest cup of hot chocolate at Serendipity 3 in New York...
  18. Just finished on CBS The Early Show, Ashrita caught 57 eggs, 8 short of the record...good effort nonetheless!
  19. Why don't you join in on all the GWR Day fun NOW??
  20. Afterwards going to Serendipity 3 cafe in NY to judge the largest cup of chocolate. Eggs & chocolate for breakfast I guess...I'll take it!