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World's smallest man dead at 21: Guinness World Records
AFP via google ^ | 03/15/10 | Staff

Posted on 03/15/2010 4:21:14 PM PDT by OldDeckHand

LONDON — The world's shortest man, He Pingping, who stood just over two feet five inches tall (75 centimetres), has died, Britain's Guinness World Records said Monday. He was 21.

He -- a native of China who had a form of primordial dwarfism and measured 74.61 centimetres -- was in Rome taking part in a television show when he suffered chest problems.

He was taken to hospital, where he died over the weekend.

Craig Glenday, editor-in-chief of London-based Guinness World Records, recalled measuring He in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia in 2008.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: china; dwarf; guinness
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And all this time, I thought Robert Reich was the world's smallest man. Who knew?
1 posted on 03/15/2010 4:21:15 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

No, reich IS a small man, Mr. Pingping was just short.


2 posted on 03/15/2010 4:23:24 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

Exactlly!


3 posted on 03/15/2010 4:24:28 PM PDT by mc5cents
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To: OldDeckHand

Bummer. From what I read, he was a decent person.

But we all gotta go, I guess...


4 posted on 03/15/2010 4:25:53 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

Such a short life.

(ouch)


5 posted on 03/15/2010 4:27:03 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: El Sordo

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

Fight Club


6 posted on 03/15/2010 4:27:11 PM PDT by Bean Counter (I keeps mah feathers numbered, for just such an emergency...)
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To: OldDeckHand

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8569166.stm


7 posted on 03/15/2010 4:27:20 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: OldDeckHand
Ping?

PingPing?

PingPong?


8 posted on 03/15/2010 4:30:21 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Democrats prioritize Death over Enslavement!)
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Dammit! Poor guy. Dude was cool.


9 posted on 03/15/2010 4:31:40 PM PDT by NoRedTape
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I have no medical credentials whatsoever but the pictures I've seen of Mr. Pingping look like a person with primordial dwarfism. Such folks often die young.

I'm sorry for his passing.

10 posted on 03/15/2010 4:31:56 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Obama: Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg)
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

...and somewhere near Harvard a little man is saying, “Ouch! Now where did that mark come from?”


11 posted on 03/15/2010 4:32:10 PM PDT by rex regnum insanit (falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus)
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To: maine-iac7

Wow, 21.
We have a son that age.
Way too young...


12 posted on 03/15/2010 4:34:37 PM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: NoRedTape

Poor guy.
Dang, that is one freaky picture.


13 posted on 03/15/2010 4:38:22 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: OldDeckHand

Dwarf Star Predicted to Blast Through the Solar System


14 posted on 03/15/2010 4:41:01 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: El Sordo
From what I read, he was a decent person.

I recall the same thing. I can't remember the specifics but there was an interview with him and he was very self-confident and positive. Sad he only lived until 21.

15 posted on 03/15/2010 4:42:01 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: OldDeckHand

Now he’s in a first-place tie for “World’s Deadest Man.”


16 posted on 03/15/2010 4:42:19 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly at first.)
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To: OldDeckHand

When it comes to smallness, I don’t think Reich is in the same league as Soetoro.


17 posted on 03/15/2010 4:51:44 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: Beelzebubba

I bet he got carded all the time.


18 posted on 03/15/2010 4:52:27 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: OldDeckHand
Jack: Did you hear the world's smallest man died?

Bill: No? Who was he?

Jack: That's right, I thought you didn't know?

Bill: Know what?

Jack: That the world's smallest man died.

Bill: I didn't, what's his name?

Jack: He.

Bill: He who?

Jack: He Pingping.

Bill: He ping ping what?

Jack: Just He Pingping.

Bill: But you said he died.

Jack: Yes, He did.

Bill: Well, God bless him.

19 posted on 03/15/2010 4:54:43 PM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: NoRedTape

He died so young!

He didn’t even have a chance to grow up yet...


20 posted on 03/15/2010 5:01:50 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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