Guinness World Record: Multi-Language Poem Reading

The man holding more Guinness World Records more than anyone reached the century mark by organizing a poetry reading. Lets have a look.
STORY:
This time, New Yorker, Ashrita Furman organized a reading of a poem in 111 languages. With this event, Furman now holds 100 Guinness World Records, an achievement no one comes close to matching.

More than a hundred people read the poem at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan. The poem was recited in widely spoken languages like English, Dutch and Korean, to less well know languages like Bahkir, Galician, Inuktitut and Telugu.

[Ashrita Furman, Guinness World Records Holder]:
"I just love the Guinness Book of Records because it represents the best in the world that anyone has ever done. So you are sort of achieving something that's never been done before."

A Guinness representative presented Furman with a plaque recognizing his 100 current Guinness World Record.

So what exactly is the motivation for all these setting records? Is it ego?

[Ashrita Furman, Guinness World Records Holder]:
"In the beginning I have to say it was. It was a big, kind of almost an ego thing, but really at this point it's really for the challenge of it, just purely to find something that seems almost impossible and then train for it and then do it."

Furman has been setting them from 1979 when he did 27,000 jumping jacks. Since then the records have fallen for Furman in countless off-beat categories. From the fastest mile running with a milk on his head, numerous records using a hula-hoop and a pogo stick, to the fastest mile pushing an orange with his nose.

Up next for Furman is to perform the most deep knee-bends while balancing on a Swiss Ball, which he says he will attempt in a few weeks.

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[jlspma]

wait....he's holding a record for holding records! lol

[JohnF30Music]

most jumping jacks while rapping to ciara and playing playstation for 30 seconds

[Haseeb2]

@wiiS360 Not if someone catches up with him.

[Haseeb2]

Back when I was in high school, I was seriously thinking about challenging some of his records, like the distance record on one of those bouncy balls. But the thing is, I couldn't get anyone to work with me. Everyone I told about it laughed at me and thought I was crazy.

[kimcheolho]

Erm... I think he should try to go for some more useful records... Seriously, some of those records are totally arbitrary and pointless.

[Pianist1232]

Galician is same as Spanish.

[openmy3rdeye]

This guy has way too much free time.

[wiiS360]

if you get a World record for the Most World Records, wouldn't you break that world record?

i.e. he has 100 records then gets awarded the Most World records and now has 101. Now he has 102 and breaks his old record. then he breaks it again and again

[tokuanimecitvguy]

Yeah,SHOW US IT. I want to actually SEE the multilanguage poem reading.

[inoout]

he seems fit