Winner Downs 49 Hot Dogs in 12 Minutes (Coney Island)

Yahoo.com ^ | 7/4/05 | unknown

[beyond the sea]

49 hot dogs in 12 minutes.

Darn. Takeru ate a few more last year! He's losing it! ;-)

[beyond the sea]

Try eating four pretzels in a minute........... no fluids.

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This guy is truly amazing.

[Red Badger]

The Lance Armstrong of Hot Dog Eaters?..............

[beyond the sea]

ROFL!

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Two guys immigrate to America. On their first day off the boat they are wandering around New York City seeing the sights. As lunch time approaches they decide they are hungry. They then come up to a street vendor selling hot dogs.

One says to the other in a shocked tone, "My God. Do they eat dogs in America?"

"I don't know!" says the other, equally appalled.

"Well," says the first, "we're going to be Americans, so we must do as they do."

They approach the vendor bravely. "Two hot dogs, please."

The vendor hands them their food in a pair of paper bags. The two immigrants sit on a park bench to eat their lunch. One looks inside his sack, hesitates and turns to his partner and says, "Uh, which part of the dog did you get?"

[stuartcr]

I bet all the starving people in the world, really appreciate our having these food-eating contests, and showing the whole world via satellite and media.

[Allegra]

Darn. Takeru ate a few more last year! He's losing it! ;-)

I'd lose those hot dogs pretty quick if I tried to do that. ;-)

[softwarecreator]

Yeah, but how many of these starving people are watching food eating contests on TV?

[softwarecreator]

Uh, which part of the dog did you get?"

LOL!!!!!

[stuartcr]

Probably not many, although they probably eat the newspapers after reading about them...

[stuartcr]

Irregardless of the reason, there are still lots of starving people....

[softwarecreator]

I agree with you and we try to donate as much as we can.  Problem is, we have no idea where our money is going once that check is written.  It's a frustrating situation at times.

[Lazamataz]

The runner-up was Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va., who set an American record by downing 37 hot dogs in the same 12 minutes.

I want to marry this woman.

[rabidralph]

Yes, but they don't outnumber the grammar-challenged. It's "regardless"--not irregardless.

[stuartcr]

Very frustrating. It just bothers me that our country seems to promote over-indulgence in lots of things, and then we wonder why peoples in other countries, think we are materialistic and over-indulgent...

[stuartcr]

I'm always thankful for online editors that keep those of us that so challenged, properly policed.

[wireman]

If they can't afford food, they shouldn't be spending money on television and newspapers!

[stuartcr]

Perhaps there is no food available, and they read/eat the newspapers, after finding them in the trash bins of those that can afford them.

[r9etb]

I want to marry this woman.

You and 36 other guys?