People will do some strange things to get into The Guinness Book of World Records. One man came up with an interesting idea; he decided to be the kissing champion of the world. On August 19, 1985, Alfred A. E. Wolfram kissed 10,504 people in eight hours at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Have a variety of record books available for the participants to use.
POEM
The Most Kisses
By J. Patrick Lewis
Wolfram, Alfred,
super-duper
pucker-upper
quicker smacker
lipper-wiper
merry-maker
kisser-swapper
record breaker.
Wolfram, Alfred
couldn’t kiss
just one Min-
nesota miss
went and kissed
10,000 more. (Somebody was keeping score.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lewis, J. Patrick, and Keith Graves. 2008. THE WORLD’S GREATEST POEMS: THE TALKINGEST BIRD, THE TALLEST ROLLER COASTER, AND 23 ORTHER ‘EST’S.. San Francisco, Calif: Chronicle Children's.
EXTENSION
Have everyone daydream a few events in which they might set world records. Then ask everyone to try to describe either one of those events or one from the record books in a poem.
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