Guinness World Record For Curtsying Set In New York City

A crowd at New York City's London Hotel practiced some extreme etiquette Thursday night, setting the Guinness World Record for curtsying by completing 314 curtsies in five minutes.

"I think Londoners will be absolutely delighted," Gordon Innes, CEO of the public relations firm London & Partners, told The Huffington Post. "[It's] our second world record."

The firm is aiming to set 20 world records in time for the summer Olympic Games, which will be held in London in July.

Last week, it helped set the record for the world's longest marathon hug, a sweaty 24-hour, 44-minute embrace that took place at an English train station.

For the record set Thursday, William Hanson, one of Britain's leading etiquette experts, instructed dozens of Londoners, Guinness fans and a few Huffington Post staffers, who dipped and nodded their way into the history books while throwing back champagne and cocktails at a hotel bar.

It's "not a great big swoop like you'd see in a Broadway show," Hanson told the participants, but instead a slight dip and nod of the head.

Part of The Huffington Post's Weird News team -- Associate Editor Andy Campbell and Editor Buck Wolf -- were considered ringers at the event, each adding upwards of three, even four curtsies to the world record total.

The firm will next attempt to break records for the world's most expensive edible Easter egg and the world's longest photograph.

A dapper Hanson, who posted a video blog about the event, said he was impressed.

"We achieved in five minutes [314] absolutely perfect and correct curtsies," he said. "I'm elated. It's not something you do every day and I'm very proud to be a part of such an exclusive club of world records. My ego will have gone through the roof right now."

Comments

[iAREamerica]

01:25 PM on 01/29/2012

Not included in this story is the fact that they also inadvertently broke the record for the most people holding a "Man, I really have to pee!" pose as well.

[ankurgup]

07:09 AM on 01/29/2012

Is it not very similar to a funny picture of a sexy hand bra at http://www.google404.com/content/Funny-hand-bra

[ArticulateAndClean]

09:46 PM on 01/28/2012

I hear Obama will soon be attempting to set the new "bowing" record.

He's been practicing for a few years now, so I think he can do it.

[Counterglow]

08:03 AM on 02/05/2012

Obama will still have a long way to go to match the make-out session Bush had with that Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. You remember...they were holding hands at one point, and kissing.

http://www.popular-pics.com/PPImages/bush-abdulah-holding-hands.jpg

http://www.competenetwork.com/images/stories/bloggers/ty-04/bush-kiss-saudi.jpg

I think after that second picture was taken, somebody yelled, "Get a room".

[ipleathe5thh]

07:18 PM on 01/27/2012

My daughter made me do that with her i went down and got stuck....She & My Wife though it was too funny

[iAREamerica]

01:23 PM on 01/29/2012

Dude...while being a Yankees fan is vile enough, might I strongly suggest, regardless of how funny it might seem, that you don't go down on your daughter anymore. There are some things that are EVEN WORSE than supporting the New York Yankees. Not many things mind you, but this one is a slam dunk.

[stjoshy]

06:38 PM on 01/27/2012

and not a single eff was given that day...

[Pamela Ivins Dobuler]

11:45 PM on 01/27/2012

well, I actually do - when we were little girls - for some reason - we were taught to curtsy - and I thought it was so nice and "fancy". :)

[stjoshy]

11:52 PM on 01/27/2012

hahaha. well maybe a single one was given

[Davedawg]

06:10 PM on 01/27/2012

Those tow guys make a nice couple, I wonder which one changes the litter box