Posted on 03/10/2010 9:44:44 PM PST by fishhound
A 34-year-old American has broken his own world record by building the largest free-standing house of playing cards ever recorded.
Bryan Berg set the new Guinness World Record Wednesday by building a giant replica of the Venetian Macau hotel and casino inside the resort in China's gambling hub.
The structure used a total of 218,792 playing cards and took 44 days to complete. Completed, it is 35 feet long, 10 feet tall, and weighs 600 pounds.
"I can't help it, I was trained as an architect and I have taken just enough structural engineering to be dangerous," said Berg, who has a master's degree from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. "When I'm in there working - figuring out how to build something - even though I'm sort of playing around with playing cards, it's really like a real construction project. Because you have to engineer every single adjacency and every support that's supporting everything above."
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Oh, I thought it was Congress.
More complicated then the dems healthcare and other plans....house of cards.
Good one.
Interesting and amusing.
The card house is interesting.
The pathetic effort by CBS to compete with YouTube is amusing.
The pathetic effort by CBS to compete with YouTube is amusing.
Great point, it didn’t dawn on me. Thanks.
How is this supposed to be an imitation of You Tube? It’s a video of their own news story.
I was sure they were talking about the banking system.
I see he found something useful to do with that worthless harvard degree.
It was a really lame video, wasn't it.
(oops! sorry about that... < sniff >)
That’s not a story. THIS is a story.
“Woman Feeds Bear at Zoo, Loses Fingers”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/06/national/main6272920.shtml
This happened in Wisconsin. Want to bet she’s an Obama voter?
From the article (for those who didn’t guess): “A mayor’s office statement says alcohol played a factor.”
A guy building card towers is a national news story?
LOL. I always love that line.
It’s code for “she was as drunk as a skunk.”
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