Talk:Ashrita Furman

"Most Records" is not a Guinness category
The article on the Guinness Book of World Records states that the publishers do not track the person with the most records. If this is so, I suggest changing the text from (in essence) "holder of the record for the most records" to (in essence) "person with a lot of records."

Am I wrong? I don't have a copy of the book, so I can't verify any of this. Lord Geznikor 17:36, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

He just got his 100th simultaneous record. - Calvin —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.179.88.114 (talk) 20:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

→ It says here: |aim|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphere.com%2F2009%2F10%2F23%2Ften-unbreakable-guinness-records%2F that it is a record to hold the most records. And it also says that he has 245, not just 237. 99.67.93.67 (talk) 21:06, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Implicit in the article is the sense that these records are somehow, and/or make him, noteworthy. There are dozens of his frivolous, one-off 'records' that nobody would bother to emulate. How do you hold a 'record' for something that never actually surpassed anyone else's accomplishment? Right now, I happen to be chewing a piece of gum. Suppose I took it out of my mouth and hurled it through the door into the next room and it stuck on the wall? Would that be a 'record'?
 * Dan holds the world distance record for gum-hurling into another room and it sticking to the wall.

Suppose I stacked a half-dozen 78 rpm phonograph recordings between two books and broke them with a karate-chop?
 * Dan single-handedly smashes 6 old records in 20 milliseconds.

One could take the whole thing in the other direction: It should be an anti-accomplishment to hold the greatest number of silly 'records'; and I suspect his main objective is the publicity all this has given to his health-food store. JohndanR (talk) 04:18, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
 * When you have no book from the records so go to a libary.--Richard Reinhardt (talk) 05:58, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

To change
Please Northstar7 reverted by vandalism.--Richard Reinhardt (talk) 06:12, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Think not first name in the article is right.
 * His parents are Jewish should in the article.
 * Should in the article. abandoned the study of business at Columbia University http://blogs.voanews.com/tedlandphairsamerica/2012/04/12/so-you-want-to-be-famous/
 * Should deleted this blogspot reference: http://whenwhoandhow.blogspot.de/2011/09/who-owns-most-guiness-world-records.html
 * The category Jewish American sportspeople is not right his parents are Jewish.

One of the sources doesn't work anymore
The source is: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/2015/preview/files/assets/basic-html/page6.html, the page is gone