The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
The Best Fun Fact Ever
The Guinness Book of World Records was the brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of Guinness Brewery . . . in 1951, he got into a Monty Python-esque argument while hunting (about the airborne speed of two birds: the red grouse and the golden plover) and realized that bars would benefit greatly from a book to settle absurd arguments, so he tasked the McWhirter brothers with the project, with the promise that he'd stamp the Guinness name on the product, and in 1955, a perennial bestseller was born (a bestseller which is undergoing a transformation . . . listen to this episode of Planet Money for that story).
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One more reason to celebrate Beaver.
you realize you're celebrating sir beaver? not that there's anything wrong with that . . .
https://thebenconrad.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/not-that-theres-anything-wrong-with-that-homophobia-and-seinfeld/
I celebrate Beaver's entire catalog.
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